Wentworth school girls reunited after 50 years apart

Sep 29 2009 by Huddersfield Daily Examiner

School girls reunited after 50 years apart

IT’S the first time school friends have seen each other for over 50 years.

Former pupils of Wentworth School, Greenhead Road, which closed in 1971, met for a reunion at Cedar Court, Ainley Top, at the weekend.

Some 22 alumni, aged 66 to 80, came from across the country to chat and swap memories and photos with old friends.

The reunion was the school’s first since it closed in 1970.

The former preparatory school, which was founded in the 1860s, is now used as flats.

One-time pupil Judith Garratt started at the school in 1941 and left, aged 15, in 1952.

Mrs Garratt lived in Lowerhouses and taught at Newsome and Royds Hall High Schools before she left Huddersfield in 1966.

She is now retired and lives in Essex.

Mrs Garratt said: “I have some happy memories of that school.

“I wouldn’t say we were educated all that well by modern standards but we had fun with speech days and French plays.

“I remember being Prince Charming in Sleeping Beauty and on stage there were girls who were supposed to be sitting on chairs. But whoever did the props had forgotten, so the girls had to pretend to be sitting!