School to be demolished

ONE of Grantham’s first secondary modern schools is to be demolished.

An application is being made for permission to pull down the Ruskin Prior Academy, Queensway,.

Now surplus to requirements as the academy has moved everything to its Rushcliffe Road site, owners Lincoln Diocesan Trust & Board of Finance can see no further use for the buildings.

Originally called St Wulfram’s Secondary School, it was opened in 1956 by the Bishop of Lincoln, the Rt Rev Kenneth Riches.

Costing £142,579 the three-storey building was designed to take 600 boys and girls.

Most new pupils were drawn from the National Schools in Castlegate and senior boys from Spittlegate School, St Catherine’s Road.

It was later renamed Grantham Church School, prior to gaining academy status.

  St Wulfram’s Secondary Modern School under construction in the mi-1950s