Catalogue description Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School

Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar School, Lancashire

Deposited by the Divisional Education Officer, Rawtenstall, 4 March 1982 (acc. 4813). Additional deposits 10 January 1989 (per Rawtenstall Library: acc.6404), 20 December 1994 (acc. 7758) and 3 November 1999 (acc. 8664) Accession 4813 consists of SMRA 14/3/1; accession 6404 comprises SMRA 14/1/1-4, 14/1/6-8, 14/1/10 and 14/2/1; accession 7758 comprises SMRA 14/1/5, 14/1/9, 14/1/11 and 14/4/1-3; accession 8664 comprises SMRA 14/5/1

• Waterfoot, Lancashire

This school is the direct descendant of Newchurch Grammar School, founded in 1701 by John Kershaw, who left 60 acres of land and some houses for its support. Though rebuilt in 1890, the school moved to new premises at Waterfoot in 1913. This school opened as a Secondary School - planned for by the Bacup and Rawtenstall Joint Secondary School Committee since November 1905 - but a change of name to the Bacup and Rawtenstall Grammar and Technical School was approved in July 1928. It is now a selective Grammar School for pupils aged 11-16, with an open access Sixth Form.