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Old 21-06-2007, 20:02   #289
claytonender
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Re: Hyndburn to be axed.

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Originally Posted by katex View Post
Have to keep bumping this thread up somehow:-

Inane letter in Obsever replying to Keith Ellel's excellent letter disapproving of the proposed name change in last week's edition. An Ian R White of 'Langho' comments that he was disappointed to read Keith's content stating that some of us were fortunate to have received a secondary education at 'Accrington' Grammar school, including Keith (1949-56).

What has this got to do with a bunch of soldiers ?!!

Don't know where Keith lived then; lives Rishton now, but makes it sound like the people of Accrington provided an education for the lower 'Districts' and we should all be grateful ...
A very good post Katex, I read the letter and found it very condescending. Also I can't really see what the relevance of having been educated at Accrington Grammar schol has to do witht he name change. Surely it was called Accrington Grammar School because it was located in Accrington. If it had been located in Church (or any other of the old UDC's) it would have been called 'Church Grammar School' and still have provided its pupils with an excellent education. Although maybe Ian R White's education was a little lacking, if he thinks it was the town, where the school was located, rather than the school which gave him a secondary education. All the Grammar Schools (and the secondary modern schools) were run by Lancashire Education Commitee, so maybe he would be better saying it was Lancashire that gave him an excellent education.
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