RETRO SPECIAL: 37 archive pictures from Up Holland High School 1960s-2000s

The Wigan Today education picture archives today yield a gallery from Up Holland High School spanning the decades.

By Charles Graham

Published 28th Oct 2023, 04:55 GMT

Sport and music figure large in these images featuring pupils, staff and visitors from the 1960s through to the early noughties.

1. Up Holland High pupils' performance of Grease staged for local primary schools

. Photo: Frank Orrell

2. Sporting girls from Up Holland High: Helen Dix, Lesley Holland, Sara Bayman, Katy Tickle, Emily Gilbert, Laura Cullen, Ginny Crosby and Gemma Crisp

. Photo: FRANK ORRELL

3. Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award winners including Paul Cieplak, Jade Davies, Rachael Elvin, Michael Grethe, Jonathan Hanmer, Beth Heaton, Claire Holland, Natalie Soulsby and Megan Steward with staff

. Photo: JOHN LEATHERBARROW

4. Up Holland High pupils send off balloons to aid the Haiti earthquake appeal

. Photo: John Leatherbarrow