Hi My farther and Grand Mother both went to Royds hall. My Farther would have been there at the same time as Roy. My Grandmother at the same time as Mr Wilson. Richard Gledhill -----Original Message----- From: west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:west-riding-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Roy Stockdill Sent: 19 June 2007 00:21 To: west-riding@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [WRY] Royds School From: "Jean-Terry" <tjmspence@bigpond.com> > Hi It was Royds Hall Grammar School, located just above Paddock and > below Quarmby, it was built on farm land once owned by the Quarmby > family. I went there in 1952 and later by the time my brother went it > was no longer a Grammar School but rather a general high school as > the system had changed by then. > > A Prime minister of Britain Harold Wilson once went there. We had a > school song called "40 years on" and one had to be virtually 51 before > this became even relevant. I always wondered where I would be etc 40 > years on.< You must have been just a year behind me because I went to Elland Grammar School aged 11 in 1951. We were living at Golcar and I passed my 11-plus exam (as you must have done) at Golcar Church School. I could have gone to Royds Hall, as some of my chums did, but my parents opted for Elland GS instead. Don't know why. As I mentioned earlier, I played chess in the school team for Elland against Royds Hall and they usually beat us! What a shame such wonderful schools as Elland Grammar School and Royds Hall succumbed in the 1960s to the obsession with comprehensive education and the "dumbing down" and levelling down of children to the lowest common denominator. Schools such as Royds Hall and Elland had a fantastic reputation and produced many leaders of society (Royds Hall produced Harold Wilson, as you rightly point out). We are still suffering from the consequences of such policies. -- 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 -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.472 / Virus Database: 269.9.0/853 - Release Date: 18/06/2007 15:02