So here is Part Three of our Lost Leeds Schools trilogy.
We present 11 schools which were either razed or turned into something else. Though this is the last part of the trilogy the 'end' isn't necessarily the end as there are many more lost Leeds schools.
Every time we searched for one lost school we had been suggested we discovered another. There may be Part Four when we and the nice folks at Leeds Libraries, who supply the images, have caught our breath.
Read more: Lost Leeds School Part One
This was meant to be the back end of the alphabet – Part Two was the front end – but schools often change their names over time. Or the names by which they are commonly known aren't their official names.
1. Gipton Board School
This school on Harehills Road, opened in October 1897. It became Gipton Council School then in the late 1950s, Harehills County Secondary School.
Its final incarnation was as Harehills Middle School in the 1970s while Leeds was trialling a three-tier education system as opposed to the more common primary and secondary model. The school closed around 1992 and the building fell into disrepair. But in 2008 it was renovated to become Shine community centre.
2. Harehills Board School
This school on Roundhay Road opened in October 1891. The school, continuing under various name changes, was still in use in the late 1970s.
It was demolished, probably in the 1980s, and made way for the Bangladesh Centre and Little Owls Nursery. The caretaker's cottage on Shepherds Lane remains – it's the Shantona Women and Family Centre today – as do some of the gateposts and railings.
3. Rowland Road Primary School
This school between Hunslet and Beeston appears on an Ordnance Survey Map from 1893 and another from 1968. It has long since been demolished and is now maisonettes.
4. Sacred Heart School
This small (so small it doesn't feature on OS maps from the time) Catholic school was behind a church on Poplar Street, off Burley Road. The school, the church and the street were demolished in the 1960s. Sacred Heart School moved to its current location on Argie Road. The old site is now occupied by housing.
5. Sandford Secondary Modern School
The school was on Landseer Mount, Bramley. It closed in 1992 and was demolished to make way for Hollybush Primary School.
6. Scott Hall Middle School
Previously Scott Hall Secondary Modern, this school on Stainbeck Lane, Chapel Allerton, closed in 1992. A police station now stands on the site.
7. Stainbeck High School
This school on Carr Manor Road closed in 1992 and merged with Lawrence Oates School (see Part Two) to form Carr Manor through school and sixth-form.
8. St Anne's Primary School
This school in Woodhouse Square, Hyde Park, closed in 1992 and was demolished around 2006 to make way for the apartment block Sycamore House.
9. St Bartholomew's Primary School
Next to St Bartholomew's Church, Wesley Road, Armley, was this girls' infant school. The site now appears to be a private car park.
10. St Benedict's High School
This school, off Leeds and Bradford Road, was opened by the Bishop of Leeds Rt Rev William Gordon Wheeler on July 12, 1966. The three-storey school (pictured above), which overlooked Kirkstall Abbey, closed in 1989.
It has since been demolished and replaced by a small housing estate with names like St Benedict's Drive and St Benedict's Chase.
11. Tinshill Middle School
This school on Woodnook Drive, Cookridge, closed in 1992. The adjacent Tinshill Primary School continued for 10 more years.
It was later Leeds Teaching and Learning Centre, a pupil referral unit (PRU), which closed in 2016. Springwell Academy North now stands on the site.
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