 Crowcroft
Park Primary School is situated about two miles to
the south-east of Manchester city centre. The school
was built in 1935 and it is located in an area which
consists mainly of terraced houses. The
headteacher says on the school's website that they, "
... are located in Longsight, right next door to
Crowcroft Park, which is a great place for
children to play and a community space for parents
and carers. Everyone
in our school community is friendly and
hard working. We are committed to giving
our children the best possible education, a
wide range of experiences and the taste of
success."
The school can be seen next to Crowcroft Park in the aerial photograph below. The school is within the red lines.   When the school was inspected in
2010 it had 247 pupils aged 3 to 11. The report
described it as an average sized school in an
inner-city location. It adds that, "The
proportion of pupils coming from ethnic minority
backgrounds has increased to over four times the
national average. Those whose first language
is not English make up three-quarters of the
school population". The
main finding of the inspection was that,
"Crowcroft Park is a good school. It has
successfully met the challenge of changing pupil
intake by working hard to understand and meet the
needs of its community."
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Class Photographs  Class of 1958, picture donated by Graham Todd. We were a
happy lot, and those were the best days of my
life. Sunny skies every day, lots of adventures
down Jackson's claypit and cricket in the park.
Top Row L to RKenny
Pomfret, Graham Todd, Michael Whittaker, Colin
Buckley (whose dad used to work at Belle Vue
with the circus, and with whom I got to meet the
dwarfs, Lockhart the old ringmastrer, Coco the
clown, etc), Alan Blake, Graham Kay, Peter
Macguire, David Chambers , John Bishop, David
Heap, Ernest Mycock.
Third Row
Miss
Haywood the teacher. Many of the girls I
just cannot remember, but second left,
Cherie Petrie, Hazel?, fifth from left is
Janet Lawson, seventh from left Joan Young,
Victoria Jackson, Jane Dawson, ?
Second Row
Second
from left Elaine Dronsfield, Fourth from
left, Janet Haberfield, sixth from left
Heather Bradley, (everybody was madly in
love with Heather Bradley!!!!) Valerie
Morgan, Pamela Holmes, Jacqueline Lucas,
Denise Williams, whose mother used to
run the hairdressers on Northmoor Road,
?.
Front Row
Billy Brown, Alan
Simms, David Poynton, Peter Farnworth,
?, David Haynes. Extreme right Raymond
Haynes.*************
Back row left to right: Alan
Watson, Maralyn McKee, Barbara Reece, Susan
Hill, Marie Prestyn, Marilyn Fisher, Wendy
Baker, Lynda Walker, Diane ?, Elaine Chilton
Middle Row Standing:
Jean
Campbell, Sandra Fuller, Rodney Blake,
Christopher Wood, Colin Young, Paul ?, David
?, Paul Whittle, John Petrie, June ?,
Katherine ?
Middle Row Sitting:
Christine ?, Sandra Gibbs, Linda ?, Margaret
Armstrong, Jean ?, Cecil ?, Ann ?, Susan
Palestine, Hazel ?, Susan Chester (ME)
Front Row: John
?, Dennis Rubinstine, Steven ?, Ian ?, Charles
?, Malcolm Beresford, Alan Brown
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Below
are a complete set of class photographs
for the year-group that was 6 in 1964.
These photographs came from Elaine Hamnett
(nee Croft) via Les Cotton.
 1964  1965      1969 - class signatures below  The
photograph below was generously
donated by Susan Ashworth on behalf of
her sister Janet. The year the
photograph was taken is unknown but
the class is the one that left
Crowcroft Park School in 1965. Jane
Kilkenny is sitting next to the
teacher on the second seated row.
 The
photograph below was generously
donated by Susan Ashworth on behalf of
her sister Janet. The year the
photograph was taken is unknown but
the class is the one that left
Crowcroft Park School in 1966. Jane
Kilkenny is second from the left on
the second seated row.
 Below
Mrs. Ormiston's Class - generously
donated by Mark Henthorne
 Fourth Row - L to R Phillip Thompson,
4th David Beddow, 5th Alex Brown,
6th Peter Hough, 7th Mark Henthorne,
8th David Hall, 9th James Best, 10th
John Cranny
Third Row
2nd Irene
Thorley, 3rd Marilyn, 4th
Margaret Browning, 5th Glenys
Clegg, 6th Joan Sutton, 8th Lynn
Preston, 10th Linda Addams
Second Row
Linda
Burns, 5th Linda Cassanova, 6th
Margaret Gabala, 7th Tola Babilola,
8th Susan Weedall
First Row
2nd Alan Fox, 5th
Arthur Grimshaw, 6th Colin Lay
Photograph below was generously donated by Paul Kilkenny He believes this to be the class of 1965 or 1966 - Paul is on the front row - left
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