Misc 1949 G 1
Preparatory School report of Lesley Goldsmith for the Spring term.
Misc 1949 G 2
Preparatory School report of Lesley Goldsmith for the Summer term.
Misc 1949 G 3
Preparatory School report of Lesley Goldsmith for the Autumn term.
Misc 1949 G 4
Session 1949 - 1950
Manchester High School for Girls. VI Form Diploma
Sixth form diploma of Dorothy Hughes.
New Home for Upper V and VI. Girls will Work in Unfinished School
Report that senior school girls will be returning to Grangethorpe. Includes details of refurbished buildings. Includes a photograph of building in progress.
NA 1949 B 2
Manchester Guardian, 14 January 1949
Rebuilding Manchester High School
Brief general report on the rebuilding of the school.
NA 1949 B 3
Manchester Guardian, 5 March 1949
Rebuilding a School
Report that senior girls will return to Grangethorpe in September. Includes details of the rebuilding work. Includes a photograph.
NA 1949 B 4
Evening Chronicle, 25 July 1949
Home - To Grangethorpe
Report that senior girls will return to Grangethorpe in September. Also details of the school's accommodation throughout the war, of the new buildings and brief comments on its history. Includes a reference to Sunny Lowry and a general comment by Miss A M Bozman. Includes a photograph.
NA 1949 B 5
Evening News, 25 July 1949
School's Move depends now only on Two Boilers
Report that the scarcity of boilers is delaying the return to Grangethorpe. Includes a general comment by Miss A M Bozman.
NA 1949 B 6
Manchester Girls' High Goes Home
Four photographs of rebuilding work at Grangethorpe with identifying captions and including a photograph of Norman Warrington and Tom Chantler studying the plans for the new school.
NA 1949 B 7
School "Exiles" go back after 9 Years
Report that senior girls will be returning to Grangethorpe. Includes descriptions of the new buildings and photographs of a classroom, of Miss Bozman in her study and Miss Audrey Bayfield writing on a blackboard.
NA 1949 B 8
Manchester Guardian, 21 September 1949
Manchester High School
Report that 270 senior girls have begun lessons at Grangethorpe. Includes an outline of the temporary wartime accommodation and details of the rebuilding. Includes a photograph.
NA 1949 B 9
Evening Chronicle, 21 September 1949
First Day at New School
Photograph of upper sixth girls in a classroom at Grangethorpe.
NA 1949 B 10
21 September 1949
270 Lucky Girls get Half a New School
Report that 270 senior girls have begun lessons at Grangethorpe. Includes an outline of the temporary wartime accommodation.
NA 1949 B 11
A Manchester School
Photographs of the rebuilding of the music room and the dining hall at Grangethorpe.
Misc 1949 B 1
Report by J Beaumont, school architect, on work still to be done on the new buildings at Grangethorpe. Includes estimates for the work.
NA 1949 E 1
Festival Idea for Manchester
Report on Speech Day. The guest speaker was Kenneth Lindsay, MP. He commented on the criticisms which have been made of grammar schools and warned that scientists and technicians would not become teachers because of their relatively poor salaries. Includes general comments on the rebuilding of Grangethorpe by Dorothy Pilkington and Miss Bozman.
NA 1949 E 2
Manchester City news, 29 July 1949
Manchester High School for Girls' Speech Day. Manchester High School Girls Returning to Fallowfield
Report on Speech Day. The guest speaker was Kenneth Lindsay, MP. He advocated holding a book exhibition in Manchester. Includes general comments on the rebuilding of Grangethorpe by Dorothy Pilkington and Miss Bozman. Includes a photograph.
Includes details of prizes awarded to Margaret Walker, Mary Blower, Barbara Doncaster, Joyce Goodwin, Gwyneth Hargreaves, Barbara Price, Dorothy Mainwaring, Frances Smith, Audrey Sipe, Jean Ayers, Kathleen Sansome, Avril Barlow, Barbara Watton, Sheila Wilson, Rosemary Chatterton, Angela Hart, Rhona Gold, Michele Samuels, Jean Soni, Helen Platt, Margaret Kennedy.
NA 1949 E 3
Photograph of girls including Sheila Hodge raising money at a school bazaar for the building fund at Grangethorpe.
NA 1949 E 4
Manchester Guardian, 24 January 1949
Rebuilding a Bombed School. Appeal to "Old Girls."
Report on the reunion of the Old Girls' Federation at which an appeal was made to support the rebuilding of Grangethorpe. Includes references to Miss M G Clarke, Miss A Bozman, Alderman Mary Kingsmill Jones.
NA 1949 E 5
School's "oldest old girl" [88] sent ivy
Dexcription of Founders' Day on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the founding of the school. Includes a note that Miss F W Harrison, aged 88 and an old girl of the school, sent about 800 sprays of ivy from her garden for the ceremony. The guest speaker was Dr W D L Greer, Bishop of Manchester. He commented that education could have a positive as well as a destructive purpose and he advised the girls not to be selfish in their choice of career.
Misc 1949 O 1
Manchester High School for Girls, Fees from September 1949
Detailed list of school fees including those for the Preparatory Department, the secondary school, optional subjects and exam fees. Includes a sliding scale of incomes for remission of secondary school fees.