CLASSROOM MEMORIES: Notre Dame RC Girls' High School in Wigan

Our latest delve into the Wigan education archives takes us back further than usual. For here are picture memories of Notre Dame RC Girls’ High School on Standishgate which closed half a century ago.

By Charles Graham

Published 25th Oct 2023, 15:45 BST

These images largely date from the 1940s to the early 1970s.

1. Wigan Notre Dame High School music pupils in 1969

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2. Notre Dame High School in October 1952

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3. The Notre Dame Girls' School, better known as The Convent, on Standishgate, Wigan, in the 1970s shortly before demolition

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4. Wigan Notre Dame High School girls learn about the incoming decimal currency changeover by setting up a shop in 1971

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