BLACK LANE ENDS SCHOOL
Posted: 21 Apr 2012, 07:24
BLACK LANE ENDS SCHOOL
28/02/05. I was contacted by Mrs Wormwell (nee Proctor) who used to live at Hain Slack Farm [the one on the side of the Sandbeds road not East Hain Slack where Emmotts were] who said she went to school at Black Lane Ends. The school was closed about 1921/22 and she was told she had to walk to Laneshawbridge school. Her father kept her off school and fought the case and in the end the council agreed to pay for transport to the bottom of Long Lane every morning on the milk float. From there she walked to Laneshawbridge. This was 1922/23 and she thinks she may have been one of the first pupils ever to have paid transport to school. She says the school was in the building on the left hand side of the road below the pub going down towards Colne.
28/02/05. I was contacted by Mrs Wormwell (nee Proctor) who used to live at Hain Slack Farm [the one on the side of the Sandbeds road not East Hain Slack where Emmotts were] who said she went to school at Black Lane Ends. The school was closed about 1921/22 and she was told she had to walk to Laneshawbridge school. Her father kept her off school and fought the case and in the end the council agreed to pay for transport to the bottom of Long Lane every morning on the milk float. From there she walked to Laneshawbridge. This was 1922/23 and she thinks she may have been one of the first pupils ever to have paid transport to school. She says the school was in the building on the left hand side of the road below the pub going down towards Colne.
