The Old Schoolyard: Old photos showing Wakefield schools through the years

By Jane Chippindale

Published 16th Feb 2022, 07:00 GMT

Updated 17th Feb 2022, 10:02 GMT

Take a trip back to the classroom with our gallery of pictures from Wakefield schools first published in the Wakefield Express in the 1980s and 1990s.

Do you recognise yourself, any of your old school friends or teachers?

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All photos are from the Wakefield Library Photographic Collection.

Mackie Hill School runs a holiday play scheme. Photo: Wakefield Express

Wakefield Methodist First School, retirement of deputy headmistress Mrs Joan Griffin. Photo: email

Wakefield Independent School Speech day at Unity Hall. Photo: Wakefield Express

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