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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 24/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 24/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: P.G.C. Year of photo: May 2000 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: A brief change of nameboard but the building is unmistakably Laindon High Road. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 16/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: Outside view of the swimming pool. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: P.G.C. Year of photo: May 2000 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: The swimming pool; still open and used by the James Hornsby High School. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: P.G.C. Year of photo: May 2000 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: The swimming pool; still open and used by the James Hornsby High School. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 24/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 16/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 16/10/2002 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: P.G.C. Year of photo: 17/11/2004 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: P.G.C. Year of photo: 17/11/2004 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: P.G.C. Year of photo: 17/11/2004 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: View from S Block. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: The pond by L Block and Language Laboratory. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: The Pottery room. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: Cookery classroom. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: Looking down on part of L Block and reception. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: Biology classroom. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: The walkway to the Art block. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: Outside view of S. Block. |
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Location: Laindon High Road School Photographer: Rob Dean Year of photo: December 2003 Copyright: Rob Dean Source: Rob Dean Comments: The stage in the main hall. |
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Location: High Road, Laindon Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 21/10/2007 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: Coming soon 'Radford Park' nameboard and development scheme. |
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Location: High Road, Laindon Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 21/10/2007 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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Location: High Road, Laindon Photographer: Bix Year of photo: 21/10/2007 Copyright: Basildon History Online Comments: |
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The Laindon School (formerly Laindon High Road County Secondary Modern) was built
in 1928 and opened the following year. Opened initially for all children, it became solely secondary in 1933 when Markhams Chase primary school (now Janet Duke) opened. The schools first Headmaster was Mr. George Radford, who remained in charge until his retirement in December 1949. Other Headmasters have included Mr. Jack Woodward, who later took charge at Woodlands Boys' School from 1962-1968, Mr. Arthur Chadband and Mr. Brian Gillman. Over the years the school has seen various building additions; the most recent in the late sixties, with each department now being known as a block - the original school becoming L block. T block (temporary) with demountable classrooms was added in the seventies and dismantled when the land was later sold for private development. Early on the school also housed the areas library until it relocated sometime in the 1940s to an empty shop at the southern end of the High Road. Following falling numbers a proposed amalgamation of Nicholas school and Laindon resulted in the creation of The James Hornsby High School, (named after the last schoolmaster to teach in the St. Nicholas Church annexe). The Nicholas site was considered the best location for the new school and the Laindon school finally closed in July 1998. The School was then used as a temporary home for The James Hornsby High School while the former Nicholas site in Leinster Road underwent extensive re-furbishment over a two year period - the Laindon site finally closing in July 2000. The swimming pool, opened in April 1960, was for many years 'open-air' finally receiving a roof in 1972. The former sixth form block would later be used by the "Schools Out" pre-school nursery and "First Steps Day Nursery". The future of the school buildings and playing fields appeared undecided for many years with much of it boarded up. That was until May 2007 when the bulldozers moved in to begin demolition of the site in preparation for a new housing development to bear the name Radford. The original school building facing the High Road was of pre-new town vintage, and joins a long list of notable demolitions to have taken place since the towns inception. Text written 2001 with revisions 2001-2007. Copyright © 2001-2007, Basildon History Online. All rights reserved. Related external Weblinks: Laindon High Road School reunion websites. Laindon High Road Class of 1964-1969 Laindon High Road Class of 1962-1967 Laindon High Road Class of 1983-1988 The Laindon School Reunion 1994-1998 |
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