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Poundswick - images


Images is a collection of photographs, some old, some taken on a visit to Parklands in 2001, which I hope you will find interesting. If you have any photos which you think would be of general interest to other Old Poundswickians, please send them on. I will be very happy to include them.
 


1965


2001

 


Two views from Leybrook Road - 1965 - and

2001.
 

(m66297)

(m66298)

Two rear views taken in 1967.

 
 


Enjoying the summer sun, sixties syle.


A similar view in 2001 from the I.T. Block

 

Maroon and blue; what did it mean to you?
 

(m66304)

Above: Two views from the Greenwood Road entrance. Left: 1967 (note the vintage cars!). The single-storey building in the foreground was the Woodwork Shop. Right: 2001.

Below: Two more views from the 1960s. Left: The Lower School at Oldwood.
Right: The Gymnasium stairs in their "glass box" with the Metalwork Shop lower right.

 


© Manchester Central Library


© Manchester Central Library

 

Left: The upper Gym and the Hall. Right: A view of the Maths and English Block - 2001.

 

Two views that didn't change much over the years. Left: The Headmaster's and Secretary's offices. Right: A view of the Main Hall from the stage.  Taken in 2001.

 


1967

 


2001


Two views of Kinsey's Cottage - 1967
 

Above:
A general view of the school from the west, taken in 1957. (m66295)
Right:
The entrance hall.
Note the original stacking tables.
 


Two more views from 1967.

 
In the early sixties Mr. W. H. Nicholson ran a very popular after-school Photographic Society. He used to get his junior members to start by making a pinhole camera. Here's the result - taken by Wendy Peel with her camera in 1960.
The camera had no lenses - it was just a cardboard box with a pinhole in one edge and a strip of film taped inside the opposite one!