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Lancashire / Re: Adelphi Convent School, Salford
« on: Thursday 29 October 15 15:27 GMT (UK) »
Hi Ruth,
I went to Adelphi House in the 1970's. It was a convent girls grammar school run by the FCJ nuns that lived there and taught us, it had a brilliant reputation and was a very good school.
Some girls paid private to attend and others like myself passed our 11+ exam so we got a scholarship.
The school was on the banks of the river Irwell, the main school & classrooms and school hall, there was a chapel inside the school also & the nuns lived in the convent building (it's the building that is still standing that is now part of Salford uni) In that building we had the music room and art room and pottery also a common room where we would do drama, there was a separate science lab building and also a separate gym (without showers) The gym has now been replaced with a pub called 'the old pint pot'
It was a fantastic school, very strict but great fun also. We used to pray for foggy days because there was a rule if we could not see across the river to the crescent fields through the fog then we were sent home.
Please take a look at this link you may find it useful in your research.
http://www.fcjsisters.org/ep/resources/about/hist_brit/ADELPHI%20HOUSE%20CONVENT%20FCJ%201852%20-%201981.pdf
I went to Adelphi House in the 1970's. It was a convent girls grammar school run by the FCJ nuns that lived there and taught us, it had a brilliant reputation and was a very good school.
Some girls paid private to attend and others like myself passed our 11+ exam so we got a scholarship.
The school was on the banks of the river Irwell, the main school & classrooms and school hall, there was a chapel inside the school also & the nuns lived in the convent building (it's the building that is still standing that is now part of Salford uni) In that building we had the music room and art room and pottery also a common room where we would do drama, there was a separate science lab building and also a separate gym (without showers) The gym has now been replaced with a pub called 'the old pint pot'
It was a fantastic school, very strict but great fun also. We used to pray for foggy days because there was a rule if we could not see across the river to the crescent fields through the fog then we were sent home.
Please take a look at this link you may find it useful in your research.
http://www.fcjsisters.org/ep/resources/about/hist_brit/ADELPHI%20HOUSE%20CONVENT%20FCJ%201852%20-%201981.pdf