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Leeds Modern School was founded on 14 July 1845 in Rossington Street as the Mathematical and Commercial School. This building in the centre of Leeds became council offices after the school moved to a site at Lawnswood in 1931.
LEEDS MODERN SCHOOL - A Short History. Milestones. 1824 —Leeds Mechanics' Institute established. 1845 —The Mathematical and Commercial School established (now Leeds Modern School). 1854 —The Ladies Educational Institution established (now Lawnswood High School). 1889 —New building of Leeds Boys Modern School and Leeds Technical School ...
As The Mods have no Old Boys website of their own at present (aw, shame!), this page includes some basic info. about Leeds Modern School. The Mod grew out of The Mathematical and Commerce School, which was established in 1845 by The Leeds Mechanics' Institute, i.e. nine years before our school was founded.
The school was founded in 1972 and had its first comprehensive intake in 1974. Its predecessors were the Leeds Modern School, a boys' grammar school (founded 1845) attended by Alan Bennett, and Lawnswood High School for Girls, a girls' grammar school (founded 1854), which moved to the current Lawnswood site in 1932.
Leeds Modern School. Official opening of Leeds Modern School and Lawnswood High School for Girls by HRH Prince George. 1932. The school moved to Lawnswood and took the name Lawnswood High School to share a site with Leeds Modern School for Boys. The two schools are separated by a joint swimming pool and dining room. 1972.
28 de dic. de 2007 · Here are the schools that I attended: 1950 - 1954 Quarry Mount Infants School. 1954 - 1957 Quarry Mount Junior School. 1957 - 1962 Leeds Modern School. I really enjoyed my time at the Quarry Mount Schools. I passed my 'scholarship' and went to Leeds Modern School, which was a grammar school.
In 1971, Lawnswood High School and Leeds Modern School merged to become Lawnswood School. I'm told that, to avoid disruption to the girls taking their O- and A-levels, the merger was effected one year at a time. That is to say, only the new intake year (from September '72 onwards) was mixed gender. Mr.
