Keighley Boys' Grammar School
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Photos of KBGS building – Part 1

Contributed by Shaun Pye. 20 March 2006

Image 1	This was taken on the first floor in the main corridor, standing at the top of the “masters” staircase looking towards Alice Street.
Image 2	This was taken from the same spot looking towards the former Regent Cinema (Skipton Road?). If I recall correctly, that was where Joe’s office was. It is now a Gent’s toilet.
Image 3	This is the main corridor on the first floor, looking towards Cavendish Street. I believe that the rooms along here were general teaching rooms.
Image 4	A rather poor photo of the “masters” staircase from the second floor.
Image 5	The stained glass window on the half-landing just up the steps from the main entrance to the assembly hall.
Image 6	The college common room. This used to be the assembly hall.
Image 7	The steps up to the corridor that used to house a biology lab. etc. where Eddie Current exercised his teaching skills.
Image 8	It’s hard to believe but this is the “tunnel” that we used when going back unto the school from the yard.
Image 9	The steps from the yard down to the tunnel. The building on the right is a large new boiler house built where the toilets used to be.
Image 10	In the foreground is the ice-cream parlour and further along the road is the annex that housed 1A and 1B in 1958/9. I think it was still in use until the school was relocated at Oakbank.
Image 11	The school yard facing in roughly the same direction as the photographer when he took those school photos.
Image 12	A view across the Town Hall Square of the elegant 1960s façade designed by that accomplished architect and great benefactor from Pontefract, John Poulson. Strain your memory and try to mentally superimpose the pre-fire view. I’m sure there were flower beds in the square too.
Image 13	The Alice Street entrance. Other than the notice to the left of the doorway, I don’t think anything has changed, unless they’ve painted the doors since (?).

Photos of KBGS building – Part 2

Contributed by Shaun Pye and Allan Wearmouth. April 2006

Image 1	The short staircase leading to the Gym.
Image 2	The Gym looking towards Lord Street. Some of the fittings (ropes etc) can still be seen though some wall bars on the back wall have been removed.
Image 3	The corridor leading from the rear of the Gym. Allan Wearmouth reckons Bill Midge’s room was along there.
Image 4	The bottom of the staircase by the Lord Street entrance.
Image 5	This was in the cellars. I think it was where the room that used to contain the potter’s wheel used to be.
Image 6	I think this was the second floor looking towards Lord Street with the staffroom possibly somewhere on the left.
Image 7	The top corridor. Go to the top of the main staircase and turn left up a short flight of stairs. Here was Eddie Current’s biology “lab” and, I think, a chemistry lab and some other rooms.
Image 8	The stained glass window again, following Brian Moate’s request for another shot. It doesn’t show any of the coats of arms clearly enough but I can confirm that none of them represent any of the houses. However, it seems that Dave Baldwin has laid the argument about Longsdon house to rest finally so there is probably no need for this shot.
Image 9	The corridor that led from the back of the school hall. The wooden flooring stretching to the archway shows that part of what was the hall has now been incorporated into the corridor with an extra room created on each side.