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Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2012 12:14 am
by Donna_D
Saw these today on my way to work.
Just parked for now.
Posted: Wed Sep 26, 2012 7:30 pm
by Donna_D
Just an update. Demolition has started at the Hawthorne road end of the school. The music rooms and drama hall are being demolished. Couldn't get pic as I was in a car today.
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 6:58 pm
by Donna_D
This is todays demolition at the Hawthorne Road end.
St Wilfrids
Posted: Thu Sep 27, 2012 7:19 pm
by John L
Questions:- Who owns this building? Who owns the land? Who gets the cash for the land? Which idiot ordered such a fine school building to be demolished?
Posted: Sat Sep 29, 2012 12:45 am
by Donna_D
Todays rumour heard was that it is going to be an Amazon. com warehouse. It would be nice to finally know what was to become of the land.
Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2012 12:35 pm
by Donna_D
Todays pic comes courtesy of Gary Outlaw. Posted here with his permission x
27/9
Posted: Sat Oct 06, 2012 1:06 pm
by Donna_D
5th October. The sports hall is being demolished.
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:09 pm
by Donna_D
17th October. I went back to work after a week off and I was surprised by how fast the progress is.
The chairs in the above pic are in the previous picture from 5/10/12 so use those as a marker. It is where the sports hall stood.
Patch of earth where sports hall stood.
Posted: Thu Oct 18, 2012 12:13 pm
by Donna_D
They are halfway along the main corridor now.
Workman with a brush.
I hope you all don't think I'm a little obsessed with this! It was my school though and since I work opposite it is easy to snap a few pics now and again
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:42 pm
by Donna_D
November 14th
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:45 pm
by Donna_D
Only the Art and Cookery classrooms left! These mounds of earth are where the sports hall stood. Kind of hard to get your bearings there anymore.
Posted: Wed Nov 14, 2012 9:48 pm
by Donna_D
From the Orrell Road end
Posted: Sat Nov 17, 2012 11:36 pm
by Mack
Such a shame to see it all going. Thanks again Donna for the piccy updates.
Mack
Posted: Sun Nov 18, 2012 1:39 pm
by John L
Pure vandalism what a waste of a good building and a further breakup of the community.
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:39 pm
by Donna_D
Guess these are the last few.
7/12
This is the last remaining wall. It is from the gym. The 6th form block went on my week off work at the end of nov, so I missed getting pics of that.
here is a zoomed in one of the gym wall
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:40 pm
by Donna_D
12/12
The final wall is demolished
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:43 pm
by Mack
All gone
Such a shame. Thanks for posting Donna.
Mack
Posted: Wed Dec 12, 2012 11:49 pm
by Donna_D
It's taken 11 weeks to demolish and clear the site. A lot of memories were made in these buildings, some good, some bad! If any former pupils are interested, a facebook page has been set up called 'memories of St Wilfrids' A whole load of people have reconnected through it and have shared some great stories and pictures. This has been something I didn't want to just pass into dust. I hope in the future people can find these pics and remember and have a smile
Posted: Thu Dec 13, 2012 2:34 am
by Mack
Here is the link to St Wilfrids Facebook page...
http://www.facebook.com/groups/12262871 ... ts&fref=ts
Keeping the memories always. You may need to have a Facebook account and login first to post over there on Facebook.
Mack
Re: St Wilfrids
Posted: Mon Feb 20, 2017 1:39 pm
by Donna_D
I was told that it looks like work is going on at the St Wilfrids site. Does anyone know what's going on up there?
Re: St Wilfrids
Posted: Tue Feb 26, 2019 8:22 am
by Dan
Bootle Times 1968.
Regards
Dan
Re: St Wilfrids
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:43 pm
by Toffees
Donna, I went to St. wilfrids intil 1961.
Mr. Diggle was the Headmaster.
When I left 5 pupils were staying to do GCEs’.
It was built on a tip, as we kept cutting our knees when playing football, as there were only a few inches of soil.
That is why the playing fields were higher than the ground floor of the school.
Regards
John
quote="Donna_D"]I thought I'd take some pics of my old school as it is earmarked for demolition soon. I couldn't take many as I have a bad back at the mo and some I took didn't come out very well. I hope people can add to the collection x
here is the school from the Hawthorne Road end. The upper classrooms were English classes, the lower were the music rooms. The science and language block is in the background.
I found this poignant. A tribute to a great school. When I was there some ladies were pinning their school ties to the area.
What I did see today was lots of people mainly in their late twenties/thirties/ forties all walking around the grounds. there is no sign of demolition today. Just a lot of people taking perhaps a last stroll through their old playgrounds.[/quote]
Re: St Wilfrids
Posted: Sun Mar 10, 2019 9:13 pm
by filsgreen
Welcome to the forum, Toffees. They've put planning applications in to build 160 houses on the site.
Re: St Wilfrids
Posted: Sun Mar 17, 2019 12:11 pm
by Toffees
Well I guess that’s progress.
I left when I was 15 in1961, it was a good Scholar with some good teachers.
One had to leave as he was over zealous with the cane.
I went there from St Robert Bellarmines.
Can still smell the Tannery that was opposite.
filsgreen wrote:Welcome to the forum, Toffees. They've put planning applications in to build 160 houses on the site.