The Cloisters in 1937
On 12th December 1851, the Headmaster (Rev Alfred Easther), the Vicar of Almondbury (Rev L Jones) and four others met up at the School to set up 'The Chemical Society of King James's Free School in Almondbury'. It was the first such organisation in the district and a few years later, in 1868, it acquired a home in the form of 'The Cloisters', one of the first chemistry classrooms in the country. It had a chequered history over the years: in due course it became a general classroom; then a gymnasium; and finally an outside cloakroom. The building was demolished in 1938, the year after this photograph was taken, during the course of the major School extensions undertaken at that time.
