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Opening of the New Congregational School at Silcoates
The Northern Congregational School at Silcoates near Wakefield opened in a large brick Italian style building with a 116 by 41 foot main hall and a central tower. The project includes 120 acres bought for 15000 pounds with 6000 more for buildings. upwards of 4600 pounds have been subscribed. Notables and ministers attended a day of addresses praising the school’s nonsectarian aims and plans for future growth.
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Oxford Street
Greenheys
York
Duke of Devonshire
Board of Governors
Bishop of
Manchester
Earl of Ellesmere
James Kay Shuttleworth
William Fairbairn
Thomas Bazley
M.P
Hugh Birley
W. C. Brocklehurst
A. Brogden
Algernon Egerton
Wilbraham Egerton
J. T. Hibbert
J. B. Smith
John Hick
Egerton Leigh
Edmund Potter
F. S. Powell
R. N. Philips
Greenwood
T. Ashton
Roscoe
United Kingdom
Europe
Germany
Owens College
John Kay Shuttleworth
A. Egerton
Durham
Storrar
London University
C. S. Roundell
Universities Endowment Commission
Balfour Stewart
Ward
Silcoates
Wakefield
Northern Congregational School
John Crossley
Halifax
Titus Salt
Benglaas
Falding
Rotherham College
Mellor
R. Bruce
Huddersfield
B. Dale
R. Balgarnie
Scarbro
J. Rae
Batley
J. Browne
Barnsley
H. Sturt
Dewsbury
J. S. Eastmead
Benglass
Thomas Scales
Alderman Lee (Wakefield
Alderman Law
Bradford
Henry Brown
Duchy of Lancaster
John James
Morley
C. Illingworth
Wm. Smith
Isaac Briggs