HISTORICALEIGH - Tales of North Street School

May 25, 2015 by Carole Mulroney

Tales of North Street School

Leigh has had its fair share of little monsters as the registers for North Street Schools show. In 1889 the teacher wrote:- ‘It should be noted that the following boys were completely ignorant of the merest elements of the 3 Rs when received here. They had been running about the streets for years.

They have had great attention paid to them here however, and 4 of them show signs of developing intellect, the remaining ones seeming unable to emerge from the closet of ignorance in which they have for so long been left.’

The 8 boys were from well known Leigh families. Unfortunately the teacher did not record which of the 8 turned into little Einsteins and which lived the rest of their lives in blissful ignorance.