School's 1950s capital outing to the Ideal Home Exhibition

Silsden Secondary Modern School students are pictured at Steeton and Silsden railway station in the mid 1950s for an outing to the Ideal Home Exhibition at London's Olympia. The photograph was sent to me by Silsdener Len Green and belongs to Sylvia Matthews (nee Whittingham), who is fifth from left in the front row. The teacher at the back on the right is Mrs Barbara Waugh. The Ideal Home Exhibition was founded in 1908 by the Daily Mail to stimulate debate about better housing conditions. By the 1950s the exhibition had become an iconic symbol of mass consumption.


Also from Len Green is this photo of Silsden Secondary School's Canoe Club, about 1956/57.

Silsden pupils pictured in the early 1950s when the Secondary Modern School included juniors.

Panto time at Silsden Methodist Church in the 1950s. Another photo kindly provided by Len Green, who is sitting on the left in the front row.

The old Silsden Secondary Modern School, which ceased in 1967, since when South Craven School at Cross Hills has been the upper school for Silsden. Silsden's secondary school became Hothfield Junior School, fed by Aire View Infants School. The two schools have now merged as a primary prior to moving to new purpose-built premises at Hawber Cote.

Hothfield today in School Street, viewed from the opposite end  of the buildings.

The official designation is Silsden Primary School, Hothfield site.