Central Secondary School, Leopold Street

[Ponytail]

Central Secondary School, Leopold Street - Floor Plans. 1906. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02076&pos=35&action=zoom&id=76075

Architect: Gibbs and Flockton, 15 St James' Row, Sheffield. 

Elevation and Section. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02075&pos=34&action=zoom&id=76074

Ground Plan. 

https://www.picturesheffield.com/frontend.php?keywords=Ref_No_increment;EQUALS;arc02074&pos=33&action=zoom&id=76073

 

Central Secondary School, Leopold Street. 1908.

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Image from Central Secondary School prospectus, 1908 (Sheffield Local Studies Library: PAMP 699 S)

Laboratory. y15329

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Workshop. y15331

 

In 1933 Central Secondary School relocated to High Storrs and became High Storrs Girls Grammar School & High Storrs Boys Grammar School. 

 

[Lysanderix]

I often wondered from where the Old Centralians got their name.

was it the same building which became the Central Technical School?

[Ponytail]

21 minutes ago, Lysanderix said:

I often wondered from where the Old Centralians got their name.

was it the same building which became the Central Technical School?

 

Such a complex site. 

A brief explanation under History Heading. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Storrs_School

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheffield_Central_Technical_School

 

Hope these explain the site.... Of course there was also City Grammar until they moved to Stradbroke. 

 

[chris1952]

The wiki entry has no mention that it was also the temporary home of Shirecliffe College prior to opening the new building on Shirecliffe Road, since demolished. I was there 1968 to study a 1-yr full time general construction course prior to it moving to the new college. The lecturers went with us. Interesting to see those plans & elevations. My memory is sketchy but it did have multi-occupancy. High ceilings and large windows that needed a hooked pole to open/close them. I particularly remember the old creaky floorboards and the cold! During my time, the building behind and to the left, was (I believe) a nursing college & may have also included secretarial. We sometimes waved to them from the top floor of the main building! Once in a while we had a day at the Coleridge Road old school which became a technical college. My only memories then were passing practical gas fitting courses on the way to our room. The end elevation in those plans that show a basement vaulted ceiling, I believe this is where "the secret" table tennis table was located, where I occasionally played. Very low ceiling made it restrictive. I didn't complete studies at Shirecliffe and choose another vocation.

[chris1952]

This gave me an opportunity to create an overlay. I have only ever been to Zizzi the once and the discussion was the layout and what it once looked like. Principally, the outdoor areas being the old playgrounds. The building centre left now gone, was the nursing / secretarial college I referred to. The main school / college towered over it. Our view of it was the RH elevation from a floor where Zizzi stands today. [Edit 05/02]. I sent this to a friend who thinks we may have overlooked the old central secondary but neither us could identify the demolished building.