What happend to the open air school in thackley Bradford?

Answer 1

I started school there in 1961 and knew it as ' St Marys annex'. My aunt however had gone there in the 1930s when it was used for sick children form the built up areas of Bradford. In the late 1950s and early 1960s it was used as an overflow for catholic primary schools and many pupils transferred to St Francis school which opened in the 1960s. Do not think the open air school was ever used after that. It was eventually demolished although the site has never been developed and slight traces remain. Incidentally a very interesting school and it is a pity there doesn't appear to be any photographic record. It was of wood construction with a veranda down the side of the classrooms and there was a covered playground as well as an outside one beside the railway line. The wood was full of bluebells in spring and very snowy in winter.