Royds Hall School

Royds Hall Community School is a mixed all-through school for pupils aged 4 – 16. It is located in Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, England, and on the north side of the Colne Valley towards Milnsbridge.

History

Royds Hall was a farmhouse in the Paddock and Longwood area of Huddersfield, and was rebuilt as a mansion, known as 'Royds Wood', whose philanthropic mill owner served the increasingly industrialised and expanding town. The building was formerly Royds Hall Mansion, built in 1866 by Sir Joseph Crosland, the Conservative MP for the Huddersfield constituency from 1893–95. On his death in 1904 he left the property to his nephew Thomas Pearson Crosland,^[1] who sold it to Huddersfield Corporation in 1915 for £17,000. The Hall served as a military hospital during and after the First World War.

Royds Hall Secondary School opened on 20 September 1921,^[2][3] which became a comprehensive school in the early 1970s.^[2] In February 2014, the later Royds Hall High School changed its name to Royds Hall Community School.

Notable former pupils

• Jane Garside CBE, Chief Commissioner of The Girl Guide Association from 1990–95
• Sir Richard Sykes, biochemist, Chief Executive of Glaxo plc from 1993–97, and Rector of Imperial College London from 2001–08
• Lloyd Wilkinson, General Secretary from 1975–99 for the Co-operative Union
• Harold Wilson, Labour Party leader from 1963 to 1976; UK prime minister from 1964 to 1970, and from 1974 to 1976
• David Woodhall CBE, Chief Executive from 1982–92 of the Commission for New Towns

References

External links

• Royds Hall School official website