NOSTALGIA: a picture gallery from the former Hesketh Fletcher High School in Atherton, 1996-2010

Here’s a collection of archive pictures from a borough school that is no longer with us: Hesketh Fletcher High in Atherton, although it was re-born as Atherton High, a free school.

By Charles Graham

Published 5th Oct 2023, 04:55 BST

Pupils, staff, visitors and events all figure large in this gallery covering the last few years of the 20th century and the first decade of the 21st.

1. Hesketh Fletcher pupils Aylish and Joe, both 14, came to face-to-face with the then Prince of Wales after exiting the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company in Stratford

. Photo: submitted

2. PC Andy Wright with members of See You Tuesday at the Nowt2Do concert at Hesketh Fletcher High School Atherton, left to right: Sam Clarke, Kevin Collier, Joe Parker and Trevor Jones

. Photo: GB

3. A drop-in day at The Green Grass Centre in Hag Fold: Hesketh Fletcher students from the Young Chef/Young Apprentice Programme get involved

. Photo: Nick Fairhurst

4. Hesketh Fletcher pupils and their Presented as Homeless production

. Photo: submit