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 Founded about 1890 by William
Cross, F.L., Links School was in a house Glen Eldon Road, St.Annes in
1891. The school was so named as it was situated alongside the
original links of the Lytham & St.Annes Golf Club; at that time the golf
course was between the railway, St.Annes Road East and Headroomgate Road.
This is a list of people at the school on the day
of the 1891 Census (5th/6th April).
Hilda Cross
2 (daughter)
Margaret M Cross
30 (wife)
Muriel Cross 6 months (daughter)
William Cross
28 (headmaster)
Richard H Hacking 8 (scholar)
Emma Newton 40 (domestic servant)
Richard W Pearn 16 (scholar)
Crompton Sowerbutts 11 (Scholar)
Eleanor Twaites 17 (domestic servant)
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By 1901 the school had moved 4, Clifton Drive South. This building is
now Clifton Drive Surgery opposite Marks & Spencers.
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This is a list of people at the school on the
day of the 1901 Census (31st March).
Thompson Crabtree 10
(boarder)
Margaret H Cross 3
(daughter)
Margaret M Cross
41 (wife)
Muriel Cross
10 (daughter)
William G Cross
8
(son)
William Cross 38
(schoolmaster)
Clandett Ingham 16
(boarder)
Harold Ingham 15
(boarder)
Katherine S Odgers 26
(servant)
Beatrice E Owen
22 (servant)
Henrietta Rushton 24 (servant)
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Links School, Headroomgate Road, viewed from the Parish Church
Tower 1905. By 1903 the school had moved into a house on Headroomgate Rd
(pictured). At that time, this was the first building north of Oxford
Rd.
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