Edge End High School was a

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for 11 to 16 year olds, in

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. The school closed in June 2006, as part of the project by the

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's ''Building Schools for the Future''. Mansfield High School, in neighbouring Brierfield, also closed at the same time. The enrolled students from these two schools were merged into one, and the new Marsden Heights Community College is now the secondary school serving the area.

History

Edge End opened on 10 October 1932 as Nelson Edge End Senior Boys' School. In 1948, it became Nelson Secondary Technical School, taking both boys and girls. It was renamed Edge End High School in 1972.

Description and location

Edge End High School was a predominantly single storey school, but with two storey buildings to the rear. The school was located due west of the junction of Heights Road and Hibson Road in the Brierfield area of

. There are residential properties at the front of the school on Hibson Road, and a derelict farm and Edge End Hall to the south. This school was multicultural with predominantly Muslim children attending. Martin Burgess was the Headteacher in the 1990s until its closure in 2006. Edge End High School was the first public non-religious school in Lancashire to hold faith meetings every Friday and to build separate toilets where Muslims could perform ablution (wudhu) and pray the Friday Jumma prayer in school. The school was demolished in 2010 and now St Paul's Primary school is built there.

Notable former pupils

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Nelson Secondary Technical School

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Notes and references

External links

Marsden Heights Community College websiteBBC article on merging of schools in Pendle & Burnley
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