Wide View Assembly and Dining Halls.

Wide view of, from left to right, show, the assembly hall, the dining hall, and the original class room block, followed by the lighter coloured additional class block built sometime after the 1960's, not sure exactly when. In the foreground we see part of the large play area. 2 football pitches were marked out. One of the favorite pastimes played usually during 'games' period, was Softball. This was a 'watered down' version of the American Basketball, and a tad step up, manly style, from 'rounders'.
In class room one, of the original class room block was a television. We did not watch a great deal of tele, but when allowed to do so, we would march to this room. It was here that we saw the news reporting the assassination of President Kennedy. We all expected war with Russia to be declared! I am sure we watched the first Doctor Who shows here, with Normal Hartnell as the Doctor.
Although, talking about the original class block once more, it could hold 4 individual classes at any one time, it was designed in such a way that, 2 larger classrooms could be utilised by sliding to one side the central partition walls, this converted the area into two larger spaces. Wash basins were available, but if you needed the loo, you had a fair treck to get there, out in the open, in the elements.
I think at my time at Linton we had classes 1 to 7, the first 4 were based in this block and the other 3 were in the new conversion of the original dorm 2. As this block was near to the road, traffic noise could be heard in the rooms. In front of the Dining Hall was the outdoor swimming pool. This was rarely used in my day, only being available during the hotter days of summer. During my first years at Linton I was barred, as were other 'sickly' pupils, barred from swimming, the pool was unheated, and relied on the sun to warm the water. At my last year or so, this ban was relaxed and I did get to swim in the pool. But, very shortly, the new swimming pool at Skipton was opened. We would have a weekly trip on a special West Yorkshire charabanc for the 9 mile or so trip to Skipton to use the excellent facilities provided. As my time spent actually swimming was not much, I actually was very good at drowning. It is thanks to the dedication of Mrs. Robson, who gave me a crash course in survival underwater. She had said to me, you are not leaving Linton until you learned to swim, so I did. After about 5-6 weeks traveling to Skipton, my time to enter the wider world came, with absolutely no knowledge of algebra or anything else that would look good on a certificate, but I could swim!

The quality of the photograph is not good.