Sheffield Independent – Wednesday 12 June 1929

New School at Goldthorpe.

Wombwell Council’s Approval of Scheme.

Wombwell Council have agreed to recommend the local Education Committee to adopt the proposals the West Riding Education Committee to proceed with the erection a senior, or middle, school at Goldthorpe to provide for to 950 scholars; and to press for the provision secondary school facilities in the district.

An application is being made to the Ministry for a loan  of £1,287 for market purposes, and it was reported that the Ministry have sanctioned the borrowing of £6,000 an as overdraft.

Councillor T. Wooley presented the Humane Society’s certificate on vellum to Harold Oughton, of Stoneyford road, Wombwell for rescuing a child from drowning in the canal at Wombwell in March. Mr. Wooley declared that the circumstances were particularly dangerous because the time the canal was covered with ice.