Farnworth Grammar School

Remembrance of Things Past

Photographs by Arnold Cragg
and Elsie Entwistle (now Elsie Hodgkiss)

Here, for no particular reason other than pure nostalgia, are a few once-familiar scenes: two from Arnold Cragg and four from Elsie Entwistle, who was the School's last secretary.

Arnold's first photo shows the bottom end of the cricket field that was once Sammy Lloyd's pride and joy and is now a football pitch. St. Peter's Way (A666) now runs behind the trees:
 

... and Arnold's second photo shows where the pavilion once stood:
 

Elsie Entwistle's first photo shows herself, plus friend, with the sports pavilion in the background:
 

Here's Elsie, demonstrating her service technique on what was once the tennis court...
 

...while husband John hacks his way through the malarial Farnworth jungle to reach the remains of the pavilion:
 

Finally here's Elsie standing on the bridge that carried the sports field access lane over the railway: