The school yard in 1937 (2)
This view of the school yard in 1937 shows the famous caretaker Jim Armitage (inset) who joined the School in 1913 and was a familiar figure for the following 25 years. According to Gerald Dobson (1916-1925), he was a somewhat grotesque figure with a huge hump under his right shoulder and a 'round fleshy growth the size of a man's fist' on the left side of his neck. He was never seen to wear an overcoat and seldom a jacket.*
*A History of King James's Grammar School in Almondbury/Gerald Hinchliffe (The Advertiser Press Limited)
