Ormskirk Cross Hall High School / Wigan Road School Alumni Association

Ormskirk Cross Hall High School / Wigan Road School Alumni Association It provided accommodation for around 100 children. The building no longer exists.

📌 Official page for all former pupils, teachers & staff to share photos, stories and memories.
📌 Founded. 1886 | Closed. 2001
📌 Alumni Established. 2011
➡️ Send photos to: [email protected]
| not associated with ormskirk school academy | In December 1886, the union opened children's homes and industrial schools at a site on Dicconson Street (now Wigan Road) about a quarter of a mile

to the east of the workhouse. The building was officially opened by the chairman of the guardians, Mr Roper, on Saturday 4 December, with 70 children marching there from the workhouse. From 1917 to 1919, the building was used as a military hospital, as an annexe to Lord Derby's Red Cross Hospital in Warrington. In 1920, the premises were sold to Lancashire County Council and converted for use as a school, later becoming Ormskirk County Secondary School. Founded: 1886
Closed: 2001
Demolished: 2005

Also Known as:
- Ormskirk Cross Hall High School
- Wigan Road School
- Ormskirk Senior Girls School
- Ormskirk Senior School
- Workhouse Industrial School
- Ormskirk Secondary Modern
- Ormskirk County secondary school
- Dicconsons Street School

CONISTON CAMPING PREP - 1982Possibly taken upstairs in the R - Block, this bunch is preparing for the fun and games of s...
10/06/2026

CONISTON CAMPING PREP - 1982

Possibly taken upstairs in the R - Block, this bunch is preparing for the fun and games of school camp at Coniston.

Photo published with thanks to Susie Michelle

FORM GROUP PHOTO - 1983Its another beautiful day on the school front lawn in 1983, were form 3MAF are having their form ...
08/06/2026

FORM GROUP PHOTO - 1983

Its another beautiful day on the school front lawn in 1983, were form 3MAF are having their form group photo (arms folded).

Thanks to Susie Michelle for the photo.

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08/06/2026

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Whats this rabble doing outside the E-Block? 😄 up to no good I bet 😉Even back then the E-Blocks look worse for ware, how...
07/06/2026

Whats this rabble doing outside the E-Block? 😄 up to no good I bet 😉

Even back then the E-Blocks look worse for ware, how did they manage to stay up so long?

Can you name the faces? what year was this?

6TH FORM CLOSURE - September 1998Almost like history is repeating itself (Ormskirk Schools plan 6th form closure), Cross...
05/06/2026

6TH FORM CLOSURE - September 1998

Almost like history is repeating itself (Ormskirk Schools plan 6th form closure), Cross Hall lost its funding for a 6th Form department in 1998.

To bid it farewell, present and former headteachers: Mr Shemilt & Mr Wagstaffe join staff & students both present and former to share their memories.

Were are all our 6th formers out there???

copyright: ormskirk advertiser

SWIM GALA CHAMPIONS: March 1985..::: COLOURISED BY CHAT GPT :::...Great team shot found in this newspaper cutting, featu...
04/06/2026

SWIM GALA CHAMPIONS: March 1985
..::: COLOURISED BY CHAT GPT :::...

Great team shot found in this newspaper cutting, featuring the girls swimming team who were very proud winners of the West Lancashire District Schools Swimming Gala Trophy.

We have a few names to the faces: Alison Holmes, Vicky Green with Joanne and Nicola Huyton..... But who are the rest?

credit: Alison Holmes

FAREWELL MR JOHN - July 1988After a staggering 37 years, Mr Alun John, head of the schools crafts, design and technology...
02/06/2026

FAREWELL MR JOHN - July 1988

After a staggering 37 years, Mr Alun John, head of the schools crafts, design and technology department, takes a well deserved early retirement.

With a few other recognisable faces wishing him farewell.

copyright: ormskirk advertiser

J - BLOCK REAR ENTRANCE / EXIT - July 2004Another doorway, this time leading into the J - Block or take a left on the ph...
01/06/2026

J - BLOCK REAR ENTRANCE / EXIT - July 2004

Another doorway, this time leading into the J - Block or take a left on the photo to reach the music department.

But just look at them concrete steps, worn down by thousands if not millions of shoes over the years.

The shutter was only added after the takeover in 2001.

BRIDGE WALK WAY (Pre-Demolition) - October 2004Not looking its best, but this is the walk way connecting the P -Block to...
31/05/2026

BRIDGE WALK WAY (Pre-Demolition) - October 2004

Not looking its best, but this is the walk way connecting the P -Block to the R - Block as part of the new build.

Spent lots of time loitering about here 🤣

Taken in 2001 @ year 11 leavers day inside the old canteen, keen to get some more photos of inside the building.
29/05/2026

Taken in 2001 @ year 11 leavers day inside the old canteen, keen to get some more photos of inside the building.

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Wigan Road
Ormskirk
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