Frecheville Comprehensive Explained

Frecheville Comprehensive
Motto:	Honestas Quam Munera
Motto Translation:	Honour before honours
Postcode:	S12
Country:	England
Coordinates:	53.3485°N -1.4079°W
Schooltype:	Secondary
Founded:	1936
Closed:	July 1987
Authority:	City of Sheffield
Lower Age:	11
Upper Age:	18
Feeder Schools:	Base Green Primary, Birley Spa Primary, Charnock Hall Primary

Frecheville Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Frecheville, South Yorkshire, England. When built, the school was in Derbyshire, but became a Sheffield city school following a boundary change in 1967.^[1] The school opened in 1936, merged with the nearby Thornbridge School, now The Birley Academy, in 1986, and closed permanently in 1987. The site is now a housing estate.

Notable alumni

• Joanne Catherall, musician and member of synth-pop band The Human League. Attended the school between 1974 and 1979.^[2]
• Geoff Dey, Sheffield United and Scunthorpe United football player.
• Steve Faulkner, Sheffield United football player.
• Wayne Furniss, musician and early member of rock band Pulp.
• Mark Pearson, Manchester United, Sheffield Wednesday, Fulham and Halifax Town football player
• Ian Reddington, actor who played Richard Cole in EastEnders and Vernon Tomlin in Coronation Street.^[3]
• Susan Ann Sulley, musician and member of synth-pop band The Human League, attended the school between 1974 and 1979.
• Neil Warnock, football manager and player.^[4]
• Alan Woodward, Sheffield United football player.
• Rodger Wylde, Sheffield Wednesday, Oldham Athletic, Sporting CP, Sunderland, Barnsley and Stockport County football player

Notable former teachers

• Veronica Hardstaff, who has served as a City councillor in Sheffield and Labour MEP from 1994 to 1999 for Lincolnshire and Humberside South,^[5] and married to Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2016, taught German from 1979 until the school's closure in 1986.

Film and television

The BBC TV children's programme, The Best in Football, with the football legend George Best,^[6] was filmed on Frecheville School's playing fields in c.1971.

Notes and References

1. Web site: LOCAL GOVERNMENT BOUNDARIES (SHEFFIELD) (Hansard, 27 February 1967). 2022-02-08. api.parliament.uk.
2. News: 30 November 2012. Human League: Enduring appeal of the band that never went away. The Yorkshire Post. 13 February 2018.
3. News: 8 November 2012. Ian Reddy to come bouncing into view. Sheffield Star. https://web.archive.org/web/20180214073230/https://www.thestar.co.uk/whats-on/theatre/ian-reddy-to-come-bouncing-into-view-1-5105127 . February 14, 2018 . dead .
4. News: 8 August 2009. Neil Warnock at long last the new season is here; and it's guaranteed to be painfree. The Independent. 7 February 2022.
5. Book: Vacher's European Companion. 1999. A. S. Kerswil Limited. Google Books.
   - Book: Dod's Parliamentary Companion Guide to the Parliamentary and European Elections 1994. 1994. Dod's Parliamentary Companion. 978-0-905702-21-6. Google Books.
6. Web site: George Best: The Best in Football (TV series) (1972). https://web.archive.org/web/20220209005313/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b71dea965. dead. 9 February 2022. 22 May 2022. British Film Institute.