Eckington Grammar School was once known as Eckington County Secondary School which opened around the 1930’s on the site of Halfway Drive, Halfway in the Parish of Eckington. By 1945/46 the School was renamed The Eckington Grammar School.
The Photographs below shows the plan of the school, an aerial view of the school. The dining room, the gym and the Chemistry laboratory.
Credit to Sally Hinchliffe who posted these pictures on the Westfield School Facebook site.
In 1958 the Eckington Grammar School became the Westfield Comprehensive Lower School, which was the first comprehensive school in Derbyshire, this included two sites one, the existing Grammar School at Halfway and a new built school was created in Mosborough at Westfield Crescent known as the Westfield Comprenhensive Upper School. The headmaster at that time was Frank Rollinson, who had been appointed headmaster of the Grammar School in 1953, he was the person who oversaw its conversion into a comprehensive school.
In 1967 there were changes to the county boundary and Westfield Comprehensive School became part of the Sheffield Education Authority, the Lower School at Halfway was demolished in 1989. A new housing development is now on that site.
Info typed up by Linda Staton. March 2019.
