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Bentham Grammar School
[edit]More than happy to help - particularly if you have some sources we can cite for stuff. I think I remember Mr Warbrick... Harris (talk) 21:12, 12 May 2017 (UTC)
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Here is a passage of text that Mr Warbrick and the staff would like to include. Mr Warbrick wrote the book "The History of Bentham Grammar School" It's on Amazon ASIN: B001OOTLBU
Bentham Grammar School was founded as a charity in 1726 in the village of Bentham by William Collingwood, a gentleman of York.
It educated, first the boys of the local villages and later, in the twentieth century, also fee-paying boarders from a wider area. Girls were educated in small numbers until the 1930's when the school became fully co-educational.
The first school was situated on School Hill in High Bentham, but after the 1870 Education Act the building was required for state elementary education and the school moved to a site at Moon's Acre in 1878.
In 1948 under its new post-war headmaster John Webb the school moved again, this time to the beautiful Norman Shaw rectory building in Low Bentham. In its earlier days the school educated about 40 - 50 local boys. After 1946 numbers steadily grew until the school was admitting between 200 and 400 boys and girls.
The school provided a full range of academic and practical subjects from nursery to A-level. It was a very successful and much loved school with an often remarked on family atmosphere which together with its lovely site in the arm of the river Wenning inspired much affection.
The School closed in August 2002.
They would also really like to lose the serial killer reference, or at least give it less prominence. That pupil was only there for a very short time.
Really appreciate your help - I hope this gets through