Little London School 1846 - 1960

 

Robert Milligan paid for this school to be built on Micklefield Lane.  It was run on Christian principles but with no specific allegiance to a particular church.

 

It was also utilised as a Baptist Sunday School and a Mechanics Institute only infants were taught there from 1920 until it closed in 1960.

 

A class of infants are seen here with a Noah's Ark, their names were:

 

Front row from left to right: Elsie Thomas, Tom Coultas, Lizzie Calvert, Joan Lockwood, Madge Prince,  ( ? )  Neville Knight, Susie Jenkinson, Jennie Hardy, Alan Grimshaw.  The boy in front on the left is Ronnie Chambers, the boy on the right is unknown.

 

Young pupils at the school with a variety of toys including a rocking horse, Noah's Ark and a dolls house. 

 

 

The adults on the left side are Mr and Mrs George Prince.  To the right is Headmistress, Miss Simms and Mr Ernest Lawson.

2nd row up end of left hand side is Iris Chamberlain.

4th row up 10th child along the right hand side is Eileen Illingworth and on her left is her sister Joan Illingworth.

Back row girl in the middle, Sandra Cole her brother Gordon Cole, curly haired boy end of back row left hand side.

Mr Lawson owned a garage on Leeds Road approximately 300 metres past the Rawdon Co-op and lived at Ivy House on Over Lane.

 

Fancy dress day for the children.  In this photograph are: Angela Elliot, Joyce Munn, Rosalind Greenacre and Stephen Allison. 

Donated by Stephen Allinson. 

 

After the school closed in 1960, it was used as a storage facility by the education authority then converted into apartments in 1980 and called 'Micklefield Mews'. 

Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw - 19 January 2021.

Last updated: 19 February 2021. Photo ID: I015.  Additional text.