Wakefield, The Grammar School c.1955
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This was originally the West Riding Proprietary School, built at a cost of £15,000 and opened by its President, Earl Fitzwilliam on 6 August 1834. It offered a more varied education than the formal syllabus of the Grammar School, founded in 1591 and based at the Elizabethan Hall near to the outdoor market. This area eventually became very crowded, and surrounded by slaughterhouses and dank infested alleys. When the Proprietary School fell into financial difficulties twenty years after opening, the Grammar School purchased it at auction in December 1854. Since then many additions have been added to give us the present day Grammar School, which celebrated four hundred years with a visit from the Queen in March 1992.
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