Photograph of the Fife and Drum Band, 1887

On 25 October 1887, 250 boys marched behind a fife and drum band from its first home in the original school building [the Old Grammar School on the corner of Gallery Road] to its new home in Townley Road. They marched through the Village and across the fields to Townley Road where Headmaster Joseph Henry Smith ‘took possession’ of the new establishment.