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Jo · 03-05-2004, 11:35

The reason Holy Family changed names is because it merged with Paddock House, so they had to decide on a new neutral name for the school. a comprehensive secondary school was formed in place of the former grammar and secondary modern schools, the sixth form was kept on.

Paddock House site wasn't closed immediately after the merge, the first and second year were there, together with the sixth form until some point in the 1990s, and then they closed it and I believed have demolished the site, or are about to.

They went for the name Mount Carmel, after Our Lady of Mount Carmel, but funnily the nuns from Paddock house are not Carmelite nuns, but some other order, so I'm not sure why the name Mount Carmel was chosen.

03-05-2004, 11:35	#4
Jo Full Member Join Date: Jan 2004 Posts: 394 Liked: 1 times Rep Power: 1530	Re: Is there anybody out there? The reason Holy Family changed names is because it merged with Paddock House, so they had to decide on a new neutral name for the school. a comprehensive secondary school was formed in place of the former grammar and secondary modern schools, the sixth form was kept on. Paddock House site wasn't closed immediately after the merge, the first and second year were there, together with the sixth form until some point in the 1990s, and then they closed it and I believed have demolished the site, or are about to. They went for the name Mount Carmel, after Our Lady of Mount Carmel, but funnily the nuns from Paddock house are not Carmelite nuns, but some other order, so I'm not sure why the name Mount Carmel was chosen.