Belle Vue Boys' School
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Belle Vue Boys' School is a secondary school in Bradford
, West Yorkshire
, England
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factory, not far from Bingley Road (B6269). It has a sixth form, like virtually all schools in Bradford LEA. Belle Vue Boys' School is the best school in Bradford, voted by thousands throughout the Bradford community.
, the local MP. It moved to the present site in 1964, a boys' grammar school
next door to the corresponding girls' school. It was known as Belle Vue High School from 1896. In 1918, the junior and infants section closed, with the buildings being taken over. From the late 1960s it became a comprehensive. It had four houses - Dunwell, Hirst, Holroyd and Parry.
Bradford
Bradford lies at the heart of the City of Bradford, a metropolitan borough of West Yorkshire, in Northern England. It is situated in the foothills of the Pennines, west of Leeds, and northwest of Wakefield. Bradford became a municipal borough in 1847, and received its charter as a city in 1897...
, West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire
West Yorkshire is a metropolitan county within the Yorkshire and the Humber region of England with a population of 2.2 million. West Yorkshire came into existence as a metropolitan county in 1974 after the passage of the Local Government Act 1972....
, England
England
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Admissions
The school motto, , means "Ask not what you can do for yourself but what you can do for the world". It is situated near the Hallmark CardsHallmark Cards
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factory, not far from Bingley Road (B6269). It has a sixth form, like virtually all schools in Bradford LEA. Belle Vue Boys' School is the best school in Bradford, voted by thousands throughout the Bradford community.
History
The school was founded in 1877 and was officially opened (including the girls' section) on 12 August 1879 by William Edward ForsterWilliam Edward Forster
William Edward Forster PC, FRS was an English industrialist, philanthropist and Liberal Party statesman.-Early life:...
, the local MP. It moved to the present site in 1964, a boys' grammar school
Grammar school
A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and some other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching classical languages but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school.The original purpose of mediaeval...
next door to the corresponding girls' school. It was known as Belle Vue High School from 1896. In 1918, the junior and infants section closed, with the buildings being taken over. From the late 1960s it became a comprehensive. It had four houses - Dunwell, Hirst, Holroyd and Parry.
Notable alumni
- Adil RashidAdil RashidAdil Usman Rashid is an English cricketer of Pakistani origins, who plays for Yorkshire. Previously a player with England Under-19s, in December 2008, he was called into the full England Test squad, for the Test matches to be played in India...
- YorkshireYorkshire County Cricket ClubYorkshire County Cricket Club represents the historic county of Yorkshire as one of the 18 major county clubs which make up the English and Welsh domestic cricket structure....
and England cricket player - Marsha SinghMarsha SinghMarsha Singh is a British Labour Party politician, who has been the Member of Parliament for Bradford West since 1997....
- Labour MP for Bradford WestBradford West (UK Parliament constituency)Bradford West is a borough constituency in England which is represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It elects one Member of Parliament by the first past the post system of election....
(includes the school) since 1997
Belle Vue Boys' Grammar School
- Kamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of BradfordKamlesh Patel, Baron Patel of BradfordKamlesh Kumar Patel, Baron Patel of Bradford, OBE is a British politician and member of the House of Lords.In 2006, he was made a life peer with the title Baron Patel of Bradford, of Bradford in the County of West Yorkshire....
, OBEOrder of the British EmpireThe Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is an order of chivalry established on 4 June 1917 by George V of the United Kingdom. The Order comprises five classes in civil and military divisions...
– politician and member of the House of LordsHouse of LordsThe House of Lords is the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Like the House of Commons, it meets in the Palace of Westminster....
. - Sir Reginald Bailey CBE - former President of the British Wool Federation
- Sir James Birrell CBE - Chief Executive of the Halifax Building Society from 1988–93
- Sydney Burton - Managing Director of the Gateway Building Society (bought by The WoolwichThe WoolwichThe Woolwich is a trademark of the British bank Barclays. Originally the 'Woolwich' was the Woolwich Building Society before it demutualised and became a public limited company in 1997...
in 1988) from 1975–81 and President of the Building Societies Institute (became the CBSI in 1979 and then became part of the Chartered Institute of BankersInstitute of BankersThe ifs School of Finance, founded in 1879 as the Institute of Bankers, is a registered educational charity incorporated by Royal Charter...
) from 1976-7 - Malcolm Creek LVO OBE - High Commissioner to VanuatuVanuatuVanuatu , officially the Republic of Vanuatu , is an island nation located in the South Pacific Ocean. The archipelago, which is of volcanic origin, is some east of northern Australia, northeast of New Caledonia, west of Fiji, and southeast of the Solomon Islands, near New Guinea.Vanuatu was...
(High Commission abolished in 2004) from 1985-8 - Trevor Croft - Director of the National Trust for ScotlandNational Trust for ScotlandThe National Trust for Scotland for Places of Historic Interest or Natural Beauty, commonly known as the National Trust for Scotland describes itself as the conservation charity that protects and promotes Scotland's natural and cultural heritage for present and future generations to...
from 1997–2001 - Norman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-HuntNorman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-HuntNorman Crowther Hunt, Baron Crowther-Hunt was a British scholar and Labour politician. He served as a Minister of State in Harold Wilson's 1974–1976 government, and became Rector of Exeter College, Oxford in 1982....
of Eccleshill - former Labour education minister from 1974-6 - Kenneth Hutton - chairman of the Peterborough Development AgencyPeterborough Development CorporationThe Peterborough Development Corporation was established in February 1968, as a national government initiative, following the city's designation as a third-wave New Town in July 1967...
from 1987–92, and General Manager of the Telford Development Corporation from 1984-8 - Sir Robert Yewdall JenningsRobert Yewdall JenningsSir Robert Yewdall Jennings was Whewell Professor of International Law at Cambridge University from 1955 to 1982 and a Judge of the International Court of Justice from 1982...
- President from 1991-4 of the International Court of JusticeInternational Court of JusticeThe International Court of Justice is the primary judicial organ of the United Nations. It is based in the Peace Palace in The Hague, Netherlands... - George LaytonGeorge LaytonGeorge Layton is an English actor, director, screenwriter and author. He was educated at Belle Vue Boys' Grammar School in Bradford and later studied acting at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts where he won the Emile Littler award. He went on to leading parts at Coventry and Nottingham and...
, actor - starred in Confessions of a Driving InstructorConfessions of a Driving InstructorConfessions of a Driving Instructor is a 1976 British sex-farce film. This was the third instalment of the Confessions sequence on the erotic adventures of Timothy Lea, based on the novels published under the name by Christopher Wood.-Premise:... - Harry Moore - Professor of Glass Technology from 1946-55 at the University of SheffieldUniversity of SheffieldThe University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
- Geoffrey Myers CBE - British Rail executive and Chairman of Transaid from 1987–95
- Prof John Needham - Professor of Architecture from 1957-72 at the University of SheffieldUniversity of SheffieldThe University of Sheffield is a research university based in the city of Sheffield in South Yorkshire, England. It is one of the original 'red brick' universities and is a member of the Russell Group of leading research intensive universities...
- J. B. PriestleyJ. B. PriestleyJohn Boynton Priestley, OM , known as J. B. Priestley, was an English novelist, playwright and broadcaster. He published 26 novels, notably The Good Companions , as well as numerous dramas such as An Inspector Calls...
OM, writer, who wrote Time and the ConwaysTime and the ConwaysTime and the Conways is a British play written by J. B. Priestley in 1937 illustrating J. W. Dunne's Theory Of Time through the experience of a moneyed Yorkshire family, the Conways, over a period of nineteen years from 1919 to 1937...
, and Freeman of the City of Bradford - Simon RouseSimon RouseSimon Rouse is an English actor, best known for playing the role of Superintendent Jack Meadows in the long-running ITV police drama The Bill....
- actor who played Jack Meadows in The BillThe BillThe Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work... - Jack SchofieldJack SchofieldJack Schofield is a British technology journalist and former Computer Editor for The Guardian newspaper, for whom he started writing a weekly computer column in 1983. He joined the staff to launch the newspaper's computer section in 1985...
- computer editor, The GuardianThe GuardianThe Guardian, formerly known as The Manchester Guardian , is a British national daily newspaper in the Berliner format... - Sydney Smith CBE - Chairman of the Scottish Gas BoardScottish Gas BoardThe Scottish Gas Board was a state-owned utility providing gas for light and heat to industries and homes in Scotland. The Board was established on 1 May 1949, and dissolved in 1973 when it became a Region of the British Gas Corporation....
from 1956–65 and the East Midlands Gas Board from 1952-6 - Prof Fred WatsonFred WatsonDr. Fred Watson AM is an astronomer and popular scientist in Australia. In 1995 Watson became astronomer in charge of the Anglo-Australian Observatory, but is best known for his work with Science Outreach, for which he has written many books, as well as musical and choral works...
- astronomer - Fielding Reginald WestFielding Reginald WestFielding Reginald West was a British Labour Party politician.-Early life:West was born in Huddersfield, Yorkshire. Following elementary education at the age of 12, he initially worked in a coal mine before becoming a clerk in a Bradford textile factory. During the First World War he was a clerk in...
- Labour MP for Hammersmith NorthHammersmith North (UK Parliament constituency)Hammersmith North was a borough constituency in the Metropolitan Borough of Hammersmith in West London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, elected by the first past the post system....
from 1934-5 and Kensington NorthKensington North (UK Parliament constituency)Kensington North was a parliamentary constituency centred on the Kensington district of west London. It returned one Member of Parliament to the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom....
from 1929–31 - Rear AdmiralRear AdmiralRear admiral is a naval commissioned officer rank above that of a commodore and captain, and below that of a vice admiral. It is generally regarded as the lowest of the "admiral" ranks, which are also sometimes referred to as "flag officers" or "flag ranks"...
Ken Wilcockson CBE