Gleadless Valley Secondary School, on Matthews Lane, Sheffield. This picture was taken in 1996, very close to when it was closed down and demolished.placeholder image
Gleadless Valley Secondary School, on Matthews Lane, Sheffield. This picture was taken in 1996, very close to when it was closed down and demolished. | Picture Sheffield/J.E.Vickers

Sheffield retro: 13 closed Sheffield schools that will be remembered by a generation of pupils

Schools out forever for these gone-but-not-forgotten Sheffield playgrounds and school halls.

It’s one thing to visit your old school and see how much things have changed - and another for it to be demolished and disappear altogether.

But these Sheffield schools will be remembered for years to come by the generations of pupils who grew up in their classrooms.

They include long lost sites like Gleadless Valley Secondary and the “tower block” of Norfolk School, on Craddock Road.

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