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Now Belle Vue Athletics and Leisure Center   As the
sign in
front of the school indicates, this building, opened in 1958 as the
Central Grammar School for Boys, is now the Belle Vue Athletics and
Leisure Center. This school, like many, has gone through a number of
realignments and relocations. Starting out in 1900 as the Central
Grammar School for Boys on Whitworth Street, in the city center, it
moved to this modern building across the road from Belle Vue on
Kirkmanshulme Lane in 1958.
  In 1967,
during
the Comprehensive School reorganization, it was twinned with Victoria
Park Secondary School and was renamed the Central High School for Boys.
At that time the Victoria Park site became the Lower School and the
Kirkmanshulme Lane site the Upper School.
In 1982 this school joined with Ducie Tech, which was located more than a mile away and became known as the Ducie Central High School for Boys. In 1993 Manchester City Council put forward a plan to make the school a mixed boys and girls school and bring both sites together in a new building. In September of 1995 the new, £5 million Ducie High School opened and the Central High School building closed as a school. |