New Brighton Secondary Modern School - 1950s and 60s

1950s and 60s

During this period the school consisted of Vaughan Road Infants School & Vaughan Road Junior School, both located on the ground floor. The upper floor housed New Brighton Secondary Modern. Two other buildings where used by the school for practical education woodwork, metalwork and domestic science. Located in Field Road and Laburnum Road. Sports activities where carried out at Withen's Lane, together with weekly swimming lessons at the Guinea Gap Baths. The final speech day and prize-giving for New Brighton Secondary Modern took place at the Civic Hall (Wallasey Town Hall) on the 2nd April 1963.The reason being the intake of pupils was falling. All the pupils transferred to Liscard Secondary School, later renamed Withensfield Secondary School.