KBGS Old Boys' Forum
A place to discuss Keighley Boys' Grammar School.
Security's almost non-existent in my experience, Brian. I had a good old wander round the place, unchallenged, a year or two ago (more recently than 9/11 anyway!) A few classes were in session at the time. Very nostalgic - so little has changed over the ensuing 40 years. Anyway I had some lame excuse half- prepared about seeking to enroll. As if!
My recommendation to anyone in the area with half an hour to spare would be "Give it a go". 
Is it P.G.Speller (who liked to be known as George), who was a 6th form contemporary of ours and whose father was a local clergy man?
Is he, in fact, all of the people recalled so far?
A virtual wander round the old school…..
I go to night school classes at the College and have taken the opportunity to have a wander round. I haven’t been in any of the rooms but have peered through glass panels… Most of the rooms look the same (except for a lick of paint) but have different functions.
Starting from the Lord street entrance (now only an emergency exit). Past the pupils’ steps up, a short distance on the left are a few steps up to the gym. I seem to remember that the changing room was a wood tunnel to the left of the gym as you look at the windows. This has gone and the changing rooms are now on the right. Otherwise the gym looks much as I remember it.
Where were the metalwork/woodwork rooms – were they past the gym? there is no access to the rooms beyond the gym from outside the gym.
Past the steps up to the gym are the steps down to The Tunnel. Horrifying to think that you got the whole school through there 3 times a day. The access door was locked but you can see the door on the left which used to lead to the changing room. I don’t know whether there is access to the yard now. There appears to be an electric sub station or some such on top of what was the entrance. Also from the bottom of the stairs you can access a corridor which runs under the gym parallel to Lord Street.
Did the corridor to the right and 3 rooms to the right of the main corridor on the ground floor belong to the Tech. That area doesn’t strike a bell with me.
At the end of the main corridor is the entrance from North Street. The fine sweeping front stairs are now boxed with fire doors at each level.
Going back to the Lord Street Stairs (LSS) and mount to the first level. On you right is the corridor with 2 classrooms then the longer art room. Beyond that there is another 2 rooms.
Back to the stairs and forwards (west?) towards Joe’s office. On the right are 4 rooms. Music room and what were the other 2 – library?) At the North Street end, as has been said before, Joes office is now a gent’s toilet (snigger)
Back to the back stairs. Halfway up the next flight above the gym is the assembly hall. It was a masterpiece of precision (Pavlovian?) timing to get us all in and out of that confined space without deaths. I paced it out – 12 paces deep by 17 paces wide. Through the assembly hall is the cardboard corridor. Probably 3 rooms on either side. They are now not used as teaching rooms. Halfway along on the left is the new bridge spanning Lord street and giving access to the newer Tech building. There are no traces of the humps in the floor where the floorboards had warped with water damage in the fire.
Mount the LSS once more up to the top floor. On the right is a short corridor with two classrooms. The corridor ends at what was the junior chemistry lab. The senior lab was beyond and only accessible through the prep room which divided the two.
On the other side of the LSS is a short staircase up to (D?) corridor. On the left there was the biology lab and 3 other rooms. On the right are 4 classrooms.
From the top of the LSS looking west is the wide corridor with the senior physics lab followed by the junior physics lab. There are another two rooms to the right.
