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Pontefract and District Girls High School
Pontefract and District Girls High School
Location
	Pontefract, West Yorkshire; England
Information
Type	Grammar school
Established	1912
Closed	1987
Gender	Girls
Age	11 to 18

Pontefract and District Girls High School (aka Pontefract Girls' High School) was a grammar school for girls in Pontefract, West Yorkshire, England.^[1]^[2]

History edit

The school on the site was originally built in the Victorian era as a slaughter house before being demolished. It was established in 1912 and closed when in 1987, Pontefract schools lost their sixth forms, with a sixth form college being established at NEW College, Pontefract on the same site. There was a centenary celebration in 2012.^[3]

The school had its own magazine.^[4]

The site now occupied by a Morrisons supermarket

After demolition, a Morrisons supermarket was opened on the site.^[5]

Notable alumnae edit

Jane Brooke, crime writer
Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle of Blackburn, politician
Jane Collins, former MEP and UKIP politician
Shirley Nolan, medical campaigner set up "Anthony Nolan" register^[6]
Karen Wright, contestant on The Great British Baking Show (Collection 6) = The Great British Bake Off (Series 9). She described her school experience in Episode 5, when she made a "Pontefract Girls' School Reunion Spiced Biscuit Chandelier."

References edit

^ "Class of 1972". Pontefract Heritage Group. Flickr. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
^ "Pontefract School Photographs: Gallery Two". Pontefract Photograph Gallery. UK: Pontefract. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
^ "College marks centenary event". Pontefract & Castleford Express. UK. 2012. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
^ Pontefract and District Girls High School Magazine. Vol. 66. July 1948. Retrieved 30 May 2014.
^ Wilson, Catherine (6 November 2008). "Girls' school reunion". Pontefract and Castleford Express. Retrieved 29 January 2018.
^ "Nolan, Anthony Edward (1971–1979), inspiration of a medical charity". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/70172. Retrieved 14 August 2020. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)