Smithills Schools
This is a totally unofficial web page about Smithills Schools in Bolton, in particular Smithills Grammar School.
If anyone has any information, especially photos & programmes from the annual prize givings, then I'd be happy to put them onto the internet.
Some of the programmes are interesting because they hold lists of all the pupils for that year.
Perhaps we could put together an on-line year book, for each year,
with what we were then and what we have become.
For example, many of you from my year will have guessed I'm doing something with
computers. Well it took a while! I was playing with them as a hobby from 1981 onwards. I
transferred to a computing job in Preston in around 1990 for a few years, did a couple of
years of other duties then moved to my final, niche post in Wigan in 1995 where I was doing
National Technical Support, Web site construction & maintenance, Development and
Office Automation. By retirement I was Attendance Management Consultant for the engineering workforce in Openreach
What are you doing? Drop me an email at "Smithills @ neilmorgan.co.uk" N.b don't just copy & paste tha t ad dresss because I've added spa ces in the address to avoid spam
I've come across a few Old Smithillians over the years and some of the names that spring to mind, in no particular order and apologies for any bad spelling or the 100 or so that I've missed, are Paul Mort, Johnnie Walker, Carl Horrocks, Michael Wignall, Ray Nuttall, Pamela Hewitt, Susan Whitcher, Zulfiqar Chandia, Zahid Razzaq, Ivan Bradley, Ann Haslam, Sheridan Keyhoe, Eric Morgan, Richard Morgan, Karl Winsch, Adrian Buckmaster, Martyn Boardman, Nigel Ibbotson, Dave Wolfe
I hope at least some of you find this page when you are searching for your names on the web
Neil Morgan
The Class of '74
Smithills School photos for download. Beware they are about 3Mb each. Right click in most browsers to get a download option.
Feel free to share these and I'm not bothered if you split them into smaller sections or
even do a better job than I have at piecing the hires files into a single photo BUT ALWAYS
please include a reference to this page. There are also some higher quality scans here but they are bigger files too so don't use your limited
mobile data downloading them.
Grammar 1964
Tech 1968
Grammar 1969 - Just before I started there
but both my brothers are on it.
Grammar 1978 12MB - Thanks to Dave Curley for providing it amd Nigel Lowe for sending it to me. It was uploaded to a facebook group but facebook reduces the quality so I've made it available here too.
Other photos and scans from the school
Here are some photos from Paul Greenhalgh.
Pamela Hewitt kindly supplied this programme from the 1974 prize giving (pdf) Web Page Word Doc
John Else got in touch in July 2023 with photos and scans of "Sea Pictures" a show from 1970
David Neville supplied these magazines in November 2023
The Rambler 1967 and 1968
The Smithills Chronicle 1964 1966 1967 1967-8
The official Smithills school site is at http://www.smithillsschool.net but there is also a unofficial facebook group at Smithills Grammar School | Facebook
The following were later removed and unfortunately I only have one photo from the 50th anniversary evening :(
If anyone has any photos from that evening I would be happy to upload them here
There was a 50th anniversary page at http://www.smithillsschool.net/news_items/50_anniversary.html
Photos of the event were available at http://www.manorkayfoley.com
or more precisely http://www.manorkayfoley.com/?Action=FL&id=113869&setpwd=
and I'm on this one http://www.manorkayfoley.com/?Action=VF&id=7011485&ppp=0
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