This photo was taken in 1957 shortly before East Lancashire’s newest school was due to open.
Shadsworth Secondary Modern School, Backburn, 1957 (Picture: Newsquest)
It shows the main building of the new Shadsworth Secondary Modern School, Blackburn in Blackburn which would open on September 3 of that year.
On opening it catered for 510 pupils. Shadsworth would later merge with Queen’s Park High School to become Everton High School. It would later become Blakewater College.
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