Classroom memories: pictures from Sacred Heart RC Primary, HIndley Green, 1938-2016

By Charles Graham

Published 14th May 2024, 15:45 BST

The pictorial tour of Wigan schools’ pasts today takes us to Hindley Green Sacred Heart Primary and images spanning more than three quarters of a century.

Staff, pupils and events all feature.

1. Sacred Heart RC Primary School, Swan Lane, Hindley Green

. Photo: STAFF

2. Mayor Coun Joy Birch visited Sacred Heart Primary to try out drama and keep fit and also to help with the Bikeability programme in 2011. She is pictured with pupils Hannah, Ruby, Harry, and Jack and instructors Rob James and Lorraine Dunst

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

3. Olympic athlete and pole vault champion Holly Bleasdale visited Sacred Heart Primary to hold a training session with pupils

. Photo: Gary Brunskill

4. Pupils in piratical garb

. Photo: MA

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