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BRGS - Celebrating The Centenary 2013
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During our academic year 2013-2014 we will be celebrating
the School’s Centenary when
BRGS opened on its present
site.
A highlight of the year will be a reunion weekend for all former and current
students over
the 5th/6th October 2013.
Please put the date in your diary and refer back to this page as 2013 approaches
for details
of additional activities and events to mark the special year in the
school’s history.
click
here to read about the Centenary
of the laying of the foundation stomes - July 1st 2011
| Extract from “A History of Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School: 75 years”: | ||
| “Even
in its original state, before the later extensions, it must have
appeared a massive building, and those too young to remember pre-inflation
costs will read with incredulity that it was built for about £30,000. To quote “The Squirrel” of 1963: “The foundation stone of this ‘handsome pile’, as the local press described it, had been laid two years earlier (1st July 1911). Using a pair of silver trowels, which were afterwards presented to them, the Mayors of Bacup and Rawtenstall (Alderman Maden and Councillor Grimshaw) had performed this operation jointly – a symbol of municipal co-operation. This new building provided, at first, a secondary school for three hundred and sixty-two boys and girls, a small preparatory department, rooms for the evening classes of a Technical Institute and facilities for teaching such trades as weaving, spinning, boot and shoe manufacture and plumbing.” to read more about the history of BRGS, please click
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