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Moor Grange County Secondary School was located in the Leeds

Leeds

Leeds is a city and metropolitan borough in West Yorkshire, England. In 2001 Leeds' main urban subdivision had a population of 443,247, while the entire city has a population of 798,800 , making it the 30th-most populous city in the European Union.Leeds is the cultural, financial and commercial...

postal district of Leeds

Leeds

16 at the junction of Parkstone Avenue and the West Park

West Park, Leeds

West Park is a suburb of north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, north of Headingley. It is a mixed area of private suburban housing and suburban council estates. The name derives from its main park containing playing fields together with a conservation area of grassy meadow ending in woodland...

section of the Leeds

Leeds

Ring Road

Ring road

A ring road, orbital motorway, beltway, circumferential highway, or loop highway is a road that encircles a town or city...

(A6120). Although it was named Moor Grange

Moor Grange

Moor Grange Estate is a housing estate in the West Park area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England, which was built in the 1950s on reclaimed farmland. Work on the Moor Grange Estate began in 1955. It was originally owned by the local council, and was leased by the council to tenants as a council...

it was actually located in the Ireland Wood

Ireland Wood

Ireland Wood is a small residential area in north-west Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is approximately to the north west of Leeds city centre. The original planning for Ireland Wood began in 1950....

area with Moor Grange Estate being located just across the ring road. The school was a boys' school and its main section was four stories high. The science block was located on the top of a two-story building above the wood work, metal work, science and art rooms. It also had a set of annexes used as classrooms adjacent to the playground. The school was later renamed Moor Grange High School in the 1970s. It was demolished in the late 1980s and is now home to Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

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house and the new road is named Redvers Close.
The school opened in 1960 and was filled by boys in years 2–4 from West Park County Secondary School nearby which reverted to its original construction as a girls-only school from September 1961 after the 5th form boys left following taking their GCEs.

Sports

The school had a football pitch, a cricket square, a rugby field, an athletics area including long jump, high jump and pole vault, a running track of 440 yards and two tennis courts. It also boasted a gym and its assembly hall was frequently used as an additional gym and was also boosted by the addition of a stage for school plays.

Appearances in popular culture

The school staff room and hall were used for the filming of The Beiderbecke Tapes
The Beiderbecke Tapes
The Beiderbecke Tapes is a two-part British television drama serial written by Alan Plater and broadcast in 1987. It is the second serial in The Beiderbecke Trilogy and stars James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as schoolteachers Trevor Chaplin and Jill Swinburne...

in 1987, shortly before the schools demolition. However, the exterior shots of the school were that of Foxwood School in Seacroft

Seacroft

Seacroft is an outer-city suburb consisting mainly of council estate housing covering an extensive area of east Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. It is east of Leeds city centre and lies in the LS14 Leeds postcode area....

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