More than fifty years of Kirby girls.

Byline: Lindsey Sampson Reporter lindsey.sampson@trinitymirror.com

KIRBY College, formerly Kirby Grammar School for Girls, is a well-known name in Middlesbrough.

Now the site of apartments, the school was built on four acres of land on Roman Road, Middlesbrough, purchased by the education authority for PS3,530.

Founded in 1910 with the benefaction of Alderman Kirby, Kirby Grammar School was opened in 1911 by Prince Arthur of Connaught, and its first headmistress was Miss L B Marshall, followed by Miss McCombie (1916-1943), Miss Hutt (1943-49) and Miss Gertrude Muddle.

In 1967, the school was amalgamated with Acklam Hall Grammar School to become Acklam High School.

In more recent history it was part of Middlesbrough College, created when Kirby and Acklam Sixth Form colleges merged in 1995.

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Puppet Show at Kirby School in 1947

Kirby |Grammar School play around 1947

Kirby |Grammar School's 1966 exchange trip to Lubeck in Germany. Two teachers are Elizabeth Longmire, left, and Miss Travis, right

| Prefects in 1948-49. From left: back row - Mary Feather-|stone, Olga Nixon, Leila Dobbie, Margaret Bourne, Pat Smith, Rose Laville, Barbara Matson, Margaret Shippey. Centre: Joan Beattie, Sylvia Whitfield, Shirley Brown, Hazel Race, Hazel Hunter, Beatrice Morton, Sheila Harris, Pat Lloyd. Front: Lesley Legge, Vera Morgan, Jean Gray, Beryl Bain, Margaret Barker, Eleanor Heppell, Aideen Irwin, Margaret Brickles

| Sub-prefects of Kirby Grammar School in 1948. Back row from left to right: |Shirley Dearlove, Kathleen Winchester, Norma Elliot, Beatrice Marton and unknown. Front row from left to right: Jean Lock, Mary Preston, Enid Nicholson, Marion Wardall and Hazel Hunter

Kirby Grammar School Hockey team, with Jackie Elder seated on the far left.

| A group of girls from Middlesbrough High School for Girls, Kirby Grammar School |and the Girls Convent School in Middlesbrough on a trip to London for the Festival of Britain 1951. The photograph was taken at the Albert Memorial in Hyde Park, London