The former Grammar School
SCHOOL LANE GRAMMAR
WALTON-LE-DALE.
BUILT A.D.1672.
REBUILT ON A NEW SITE
AND ENLARGED A.D.1870
FURTHER ENLARGED A.D.1879.
School
Before 1672 the children of Walton were taught in the chapel of Low, but in that year Sir Richard Hoghton gave land on which a school was erected, free only to the inhabitants of the town. Peter Burscough had given £100 in 1624, the interest to be applied to the master’s salary. During a vacancy of the mastership in the time of the Civil War this sum was augmented to £130. Other benefactors were Mr. Andrew Dandy, citizen of London, £100; Thomas Hesketh of Walton, £20. The school in School Lane, near Bamber Bridge, stands on a site taken in exchange for the old premises in 1870, and is conducted as a public elementary school.
WALTON-LE-DALE
GRAMMAR SCHOOL.
WANTED,
A MASTER for this SCHOOL, at Christmas next. He will be expected to be well qualified to teach Writing and Accounts, Geography, and English Grammar; and to initiate such of the Scholars as wish to learn in the principles of the Greek and Latin Languages.
In addition to the fixed Salary, the master will be allowed to receive a certain quarterage from each scholar.
Testimonials as to character and qualifications to be sent to Mr. CHARLES BIRKET, Walton Hall, from whom any further information may be obtained.
The Election to take place at Walton Hall, on Tuesday, the 23rd of December, when proper per-sons will examine the candidates.
Walton Hall, 7th November, 1834.
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— Kelly’s Directory of Lancashire (1905)
Formerly Grammar School, in School lane, originally erected in 1672 on land given by Sir Richard Hoghton bart. M.P.; the present school was built in 1870 & enlarged in 1879, for 325 children; average attendance, boys & girls (mixed), 160; infants, 78; the school is endowed with £2 yearly.
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