Hi Roy, Google isn't the be all and end all to every solution. If Cathy had used Google she would not have made connections with people who have an interest in Royds Hall and would only have acquired dry facts. Google can be useful but it isn't a substitute to talking with people. Jean in S. Australia. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Roy Stockdill" <roy.stockdill@btinternet.com> To: <WEST-RIDING@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2007 6:39 AM Subject: Re: [WRY] Royds School > From: "Cathy" <longleyc@intekom.co.za> > >> Could anyone help me with locating a school my father said he attended >> - he said it was Royds (presumably a grammar school, and possibly in >> the Huddersfield area) probably around the mid-1930's. >> >> Cathy >> South Africa > > Haven't you heard of Google? Entering "Royds Hall > School+Huddersfield" will find numerous websites and references. > > It was one of the top grammar schools in the Huddersfield area, now > known I believe as Royds Hall High School, so I expect it went the way of > so many grammar schools and became a dumbed-down comprehensive. > > When I was at Elland Grammar School in the 1950s - now called the > Brooksbank School and also a comprehensive - I played in the school > chess team and we played many times against Royds Hall. They usually > beat us! > > -- > Roy Stockdill > Guild of One-Name Studies: www.one-name.org > Newbies' Guide to Genealogy & Family History: > www.genuki.org.uk/gs/Newbie.html > > "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, > and that is not being talked about." > OSCAR WILDE > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > WEST-RIDING-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >