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

By Jane Chippindale

Published 28th Apr 2022, 12:34 GMT

Updated 28th Apr 2022, 12:37 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.

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

Kettlethorpe High School prize giving. Photo: Wakefield Express

St John’s Junior and Infants School. Lorraine Hanson is the new head. Photo: Wakefield Express

Outwood Grange School, chess champions. Photo: Wakefield Express

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