Added: Jan 12 2004  Last updated 17.8.2005
 

Farnworth Grammar School

Index of Panoramic Photographs



The following panoramas are now on the website. Please click on the required year:

1923 1937 1946 1950 1953 1957 1959 1961 1965 1972 1979

IMPORTANT NOTE
CAN YOU HELP?

Keith Seddon has established that Panora (the specialist photographers that produced the annual panoramic photograph of the whole school) ceased trading in 1989. Panora's negatives from September 1968 and later are currently held in the Documentary Photo Archive (DPA) of the Greater Manchester Council Record Office (http://www.gmcro.co.uk) but sadly all the firm's earlier negatives are known to have been destroyed.

Since it now seems that this website is one of the few surviving places where such photographs can be preserved and put on display. I'm hoping that anyone who owns an FGS whole-school panorama regardless of year would be willing to lend it to me briefly so that I can publish it here. I promise to take great care of it and to return it, unharmed, within days.

Please note that henceforth the '50-year' house rule of the Wrinklies' website (i.e. that stuff should be at least 50 years old) no longer applies to panoramic photographs. With your help I hope to build an archive that's as complete as possible.

Do e-mail me if you can help. My e-mail address is fgs@dnet.co.uk but I'm afraid you can't click on it here because it's been doctored to defeat the mutants who sell valid e-mail addresses to the purveyors of spam.

Apologies for the inconvenience — and thanks very much.