The Website for Pupils of

Trinity High School Northampton

of the '50s, '60s & '70s

The Sign from the Main Reception Door

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This website traces the history of the school and includes a wealth of memories, lots of pictures of life at Trinity High newspaper cuttings and other material from the '50s, '60s and '70s.

Blazer Badge

Originally The Technical High School, it became Trinity High School, and finally Trinity Grammar School during this period, so anyone who attended the school in Trinity Avenue, Northampton, under any of these names should enjoy using this site, since most of the material relates to the period up to 1974.

There is also news of later years, so any former pupils or anyone else with an interest in the school should find it fascinating too.  There is a section for news, photos etc, from the period after 1974 when it became Trinity School.  The school continued as a comprehensive until it closed on the 9th July 2004.  After extensive new building work which is still ongoing, it reopened as Unity College, a Church of England school, in September 2004.  The original development plan had been to refurbish all of the old Trinity buildings, including the famous tower, but in April 2005 the plan changed and it was decided to demolish all of the old buildings and replace them with new ones.  Demolition began at the beginning of August 2005 and was complete within less than a month.  There is now nothing remaining of the old Trinity School.

Main Reception and Front Entrance
If this is your first visit to this site, please add it to your favourites since new material is added regularly  - just check out the What's New page.  And if you know of anyone who may be interested please pass on the web address.

If you wish to return to the Home Page just click on the left hand Tower at the top of any page.

The Famous Tower

There are lots of memories on this site: some happy and some not so happy - like the item on the old detention book.  They and many of the photographs have been retrieved from school scrapbooks; others have been sent in by former pupils.

You can access all of the website's main sections from the buttons below.

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What's New

This is the place to start your your return visits to the website.

School History

Looks at the total history of the school and its staff.

Memories

This is the section guaranteed to provoke the most nostalgia.

School Reunions

Details of past and future school reunions. 

Trinity After 1974

This section is for photos, memories, news cuttings and all of the other material from the period after 1974.

Information Desk

This section is for former-pupils to seek answers to questions from their fellow students.

Tower Magazine

Extracts from the old school magazine, The Tower.

Tales from the Tower

"It Made Me Laugh".

A collection of memories of some pranks and amusing incidents.

Where Are They Now

This section traces the lives of former pupils who have gone to work or live far away.

School Photographs

5 photographs of the whole school in 1947, 1952, 1958, 1963 and 1968.

Unity College

This section gives details of Unity College which has replaced the old school. 

About This Site

Provides information about the website, its intended purpose and contributors.

Site Index

If you cannot find what you are looking for, then try the site index.

In Memory

A section for pupils to pay tribute to their school friends who have sadly died.

School Staff

School Staff - photos and items about the staff of the era, including an index of teachers.

Pupil Memories

There are a large number of stories and photos from ex-pupils.

School Scrap Book

The school's history, through newspaper cuttings and photographs.

Building the School

Building the original school and its conversion to Unity College

School Year Book

Form lists, houses, fixtures, calendars and more. 

 

 

 

This website is run by Ian Dow, a pupil at Trinity High School from 1958 to 1965.  To find out more about the site and its contributors go to About this Site.

Last Updated  -  28 February 2010 20:48

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