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I've got a great item about our school in the 1940's coming up, i wonder if the pupils and teachers
used to dance to this.(click play below)
(top caption reads) Wythenshawe Express 11 May 1961
Brownley Green Secondary School, which was first opened in 1937, is one of the 10 schools in
Wythenshawe for children over 11years of age. Situated on Woodhouse lane most of its pupils come from the Benchill district.
Pupils can now stay on at the school after they are 15 to study for the G.C.E, U.L.C.I and R.S.A examinations, Said the Headmaster,
Mr S.D. Ashton; "We have had many succeses in these exams, and i am confident that we will have even more"
(caption above reads),
Secondary Schools all over the country now place a great emphasis on teaching boys how to use
their hands in metalwork and woodwork classes. At Brownley Green the handicraft rooms give boys wonderfull opportunities to
advance their work. Here metalwork teacher, Mr A.Clark, shows boys of form 2GB how to use a drill properly. Said the Headmaster,
Mr. S.D. Ashton "Both woodwork and metalwork are very popular with the boys."
(caption immediately below reads)
Modern education means modern ammenities-and no Secondary School today is complete without a fully equiped
gymnasium. This is the case with all the local schools which can boast in having some of the best in the country. At Brownley
Green Secondary School there are two gyms- one for the boys and the other for the girls. These boys are given lessons
on how to vault properly by senior gym Teacher Mr. H.C. Platt.
(caption above reads)
Schoolgirls of today should turn out to be better cooks than their mothers. And if they don't it will be
no fault of the domestic science teachers, who teach the girls almost everything there is to know about cooking. Besides their
advanced knowledge of cookery, the mistresses also have the ammenities of modern gadgets to help them in their teaching. Here
the senior Mistress of Brownley Green Secondary School Mrs. Renshaw, shows first year girl pupils the first stages of how
to make an apple pie.
Note: I was very, very tempted to add comments
to the above caption but resisted the opportunity, comon girls , what were you thinking when you were reading it?
The best letter will receive a great prize...
the chance to make me an...... ermmmm apple pie...lol.
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