This Was What The School Looked Like Roughly.In 1951, The Year I Started.There.

I attended Settle Girls' High School from 1947. Miss Scargill was the headmistress for the first year I was there and then she left and was replaced by Miss Harding who was actually an old girl of the school. Other teachers I recall were Miss Brunskill who taught geography, Miss Pattenden science and Miss Wooff art. I recall a vegetable plot behind the bike-shed , it was mostly planted with cabbages, not sure if these were then used by the kitchen throughout the winter to keep up our vitamin C intake. My aunt had also been a pupil there and I have a photograph of her class in 1916. The photograph of the School in 1929 looks very similar to how I remember it.
R Colley

I was one of the first intake of the" Horrid boys" to start at Settle High School for Girls, around 1958/9, Miss Wooff was also still there teaching Art until I left school, the first Headmistress I remember was Miss Evans who was really strict but Miss Wooff seemed to hate all boys and regularly sent us to the headmistress for punishment, the Sycamore tree in this picture was still in front of the Caretakers house with the "New modern buildings" being placed on the hillside where the gardens look to be in this picture, the field with the sheep to the bottom right became the sports field but reserved for Hockey for the Gals, the long building in the middle right was the 6th form Girls classroom, and prefects room, with hard tennis courts just to the side of the trees at middle right.
Peter Blackburn ..formerly Craven Arms Hotel Giggleswick peter@wellheld.com