Balderstone Technology College was a school in the Balderstone district of the

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, England.

Location

It is situated near the junction of Queensway (A664) and Oldham Road (

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) between Balderstone and Kirkholt. It is in the parish of St Mary, Balderstone.

History

Grammar school

The school was once called Rochdale Grammar School for Boys, formerly known as Rochdale Municipal High School for Boys on Church Lane. It was administered by Rochdale Education Committee, and moved to Queen Victoria Street in 1953 at a cost of £180,000. A grammar school had been founded in 1565 in Rochdale by

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, then

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. There was also Rochdale Grammar School for Girls on Falinge Road, becoming

Falinge Park High School Falinge Park High School is an 11–16 mixed comprehensive school in Shawclough area of the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

Comprehensive

It became a comprehensive in 1969 - the Balderstone High School, then Balderstone Community School in 1972 for boys and girls aged 14–18. In 1992 it became a high school for boys and girls aged 11–16. In 1999 it gained

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status. The school closed on 31 August 2010 as a result of the

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program. The school merged with Springhill High School and formed a new school called

Kingsway Park High School Kingsway Park High School is an 11–16

. The building was used to host

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until 2012 when a new building was built on the former Springhill High School site, Turfhill Road.Details of the new school (Kingsway Park HS)
Retrieved 20 May 2011

Alumni

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were killed by an American missile fired from an

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which hit a

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Rochdale Grammar School

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, Professor of Greek and Latin at

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since 1995 * Sir Leslie Fowden, Professor of Plant Science from 1964–73 at

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, and Director from 1973–86 of the

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, discovered two plant amino acids (one being methyleneglutamine) not part of proteins, and became a world authority on plant

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s *

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, artist * Sir

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, businessman who founded

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in 1981 and Dealogic in 1983 * Sir Joseph Pilling, KCB, Identity Commissioner since 2009, and Director General from 1991–92 of

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References

External links

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{{Schools in Rochdale Educational institutions established in 1953 Defunct schools in the Metropolitan Borough of Rochdale 1953 establishments in England Educational institutions disestablished in 2010 2010 disestablishments in England