Frecheville Comprehensive

Frecheville Comprehensive School was a secondary school located in Frecheville, South Yorkshire, England. When built, the school was in Derbyshire, but became a Sheffield city school following a boundary change in 1967.^[1] The school opened in 1936, merged with the nearby Thornbridge School, now The Birley Academy, in 1986, and closed permanently in 1987. The site is now a housing estate.

Frecheville Comprehensive
Location
Fox Lane, Frecheville, South Yorkshire S12 England
Coordinates	53.3485°N 1.4079°W / 53.3485; -1.4079
Information
School type	Secondary
Motto	Honestas Quam Munera (Honour before honours)
Founded	1936
Closed	July 1987
Authority	City of Sheffield
Age	11 to 18
Campus size	8.4 hectares (21 acres)
Feeder schools	Base Green Primary, Birley Spa Primary, Charnock Hall Primary

1950 Ordnance Survey map showing the location of Frecheville School (black buildings in centre of image)

Notable alumni

• Joanne Catherall, musician and member of synth-pop band The Human League. Attended the school between 1974 and 1979.^[2]
• Geoff Dey, Sheffield United and Scunthorpe United football player.
• Steve Faulkner, Sheffield United football player.
• Wayne Furniss, musician and early member of rock band Pulp.
• Mark Pearson, Manchester United, Sheffield Wednesday, Fulham and Halifax Town football player
• Ian Reddington, actor who played Richard Cole in EastEnders and Vernon Tomlin in Coronation Street.^[3]
• Susan Ann Sulley, musician and member of synth-pop band The Human League, attended the school between 1974 and 1979.^[2]
• Neil Warnock, football manager and player.^[4]
• Alan Woodward, Sheffield United football player.
• Rodger Wylde, Sheffield Wednesday, Oldham Athletic, Sporting CP, Sunderland, Barnsley and Stockport County football player

Aerial photograph of Frecheville from 1939, with Frecheville School at centre-left. Source: Britain From Above https://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/en/image/EPW062835

Notable former teachers

• Veronica Hardstaff, who has served as a City councillor in Sheffield and Labour MEP from 1994 to 1999 for Lincolnshire and Humberside South,^[5] and married to Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner since 2016, taught German from 1979 until the school's closure in 1986.^{[citation needed]}

Film and television

The BBC TV children's programme, The Best in Football, with the football legend George Best,^[6] was filmed on Frecheville School's playing fields in c.1971.^{[citation needed]}