WIRRAL GRAMMAR SCHOOL
A Foundation Business & Enterprise School for Boys
A Foundation Business & Enterprise School for Boys
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School History-1940's
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Bomb damages
School Hall
School Hall
VE Day Celebrations
Speech Day-1948
August 1941 - The School Hall is wrecked by a bomb (see pic 1), the result of an indirect hit on a misplaced target (the hall was to lie in ruins for the next 11 years!)
1941 - Over 150 Old Boys and several members of staff were now serving with the Armed Forces.
1945 - The school celebrates VE day and VJ day (see pic 2). The 'Eleven Plus' becomes the preferred method
of selection, meaning that no boys could be excluded from a grammar school for financial reasons.
1947 - Mr Harold Wilson returns to the school for Speech Day, at the time the youngest member of the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade.
1948 - Bob Weighill (Head Boy in 1936) captains England against France watched by 60,000 spectators in Paris (England lose the game 15 - 0).
1948 - The Earl of Derby presents the prizes during Speech Day (see pic 3).
1941 - Over 150 Old Boys and several members of staff were now serving with the Armed Forces.
1945 - The school celebrates VE day and VJ day (see pic 2). The 'Eleven Plus' becomes the preferred method
of selection, meaning that no boys could be excluded from a grammar school for financial reasons.
1947 - Mr Harold Wilson returns to the school for Speech Day, at the time the youngest member of the Cabinet as President of the Board of Trade.
1948 - Bob Weighill (Head Boy in 1936) captains England against France watched by 60,000 spectators in Paris (England lose the game 15 - 0).
1948 - The Earl of Derby presents the prizes during Speech Day (see pic 3).