Fairfield Grammar School

Fairfield Grammar School was a secondary school in Bristol, England, founded in 1898 as Fairfield Secondary and Higher Grade School. It became a grammar school in 1945 and closed in 2000, to be replaced by a new comprehensive, Fairfield High School, at first on the same site, but now located in Stottbury Road, Bristol. BHES (Bristol Hospital Education Service), is now based in half of the old school, the other half is now Fairlawn Primary School.

Fairfield Grammar School

51°28′09″N 2°34′57″W / 51.46916°N 2.58244°W / 51.46916; -2.58244

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Quanti est Sapere

1898

2000

Bristol

Co-educational

11 to 18

William Larkins Bernard

Old Fosterians

Professor of Egyptology at the University of Oxford

J. W. B. Barns

ornithologist of British India^[15]

Sir Norman Frome

(expelled, 1918).^[2]^[16]

Cary Grant

Cambridge mathematician^[17]

Ben J. Green

character actor^[18]

Robert Lang

(briefly), Conservative MP for Birmingham Edgbaston from 1966 to 1997^[19]

Jill Knight, Baroness Knight of Collingtree

Dame , business woman, co-founder of Specsavers^[20]

Mary Perkins

Bristol City Archivist.^[21]

Elizabeth Ralph

Sir , aeronautical engineer, one of the designers of Concorde,^[5] Managing Director of BAC Filton from 1966 to 1967

Archibald Russell

Dayley Lawrence, Labour Party politician. Mayor of Patchway (2022 - date) Mayor of Bradley Stoke (2023-2024)

Daoud Sarhandi-Williams, author and filmmaker

(Manchester)

Fairfield High School for Girls

Gilkes, Ross, Fairfield — The Life of a School (Bristol, Old Fairfieldians Society, 0-9534403-0-3)^[8]

ISBN

Stiles, Sharon, Fairfield, the First 100 Years (video, Applecart Television Facilities, 1999)

[22]

- official web site

Old Fairfieldians Society

- photograph at bristolindex.co.uk

Fairfield School, Montpelier, Bristol

Archived 27 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine - another photograph at bristolindex.co.uk

Fairfield Grammar School