having a burial ground attached, and that subscriptions should be solicited from the friends of the school. A site was selected, considerably removed from the other school buildings, near the entrance to the Grove, between the. railway station and the lodge on the main road.

The new chapel is neat and Italian in style, and is capable of seating about three hundred people. It was opened in 1833. The opening day was a Friday, and the one on which the quarterly meeting of the committee was held. The first sermon was preached in the afternoon by the venerable James Wood, one of the earliest governors of the school, who preached on the opening day of the school. His patriarchal appearance impressed all who were present. Dr. Hannah occupied the pulpit in the evening. On the following Sunday the preachers were the Revs. Jabez Bunting, Robert Newton, and W. M. Bunting. The day was remarkably fine, and so great was the crowd who came to the services that the chapel could not contain them. The collections which amounted to upwards of £250 were beyond the most sanguine expectations.

A burial ground is attached to the chapel, which strikes the attention of a visitor proceeding from the station to the Grove, who passes it on the left hand, and perceives that its existence has not been useless. The old chapel was afterwards utilised as a laundry, the arrangements of which were greatly improved. The committee record that the teaching accommodation was also improved in consequence of the erection of the new chapel.

About the years 1841-42, the school committee became alive to the fact that the bedrooms were too close and

confined. The subject was discussed twice by the members. At length the advice of an architect on the subject was sought, who was asked to report to them on the matter. He proposed an enlargement of the premises to cost £1,600. His report with all the circumstances were laid before the next Conference, who postponed the contemplated alteration. The next year, new plans were issued of alterations which should only cost £1,200, and as the centenary fund was then in existence, it was hoped that £1,000 might be appropriated from that fund towards the cost. There had been annual deficiencies in the income of the Schools Fund since 1825, which now amounted to £6,304. Besides this there was an old debt occasioned by the purchase, alterations and furniture of the schools, and which in 1831 had been reduced to £1,057. The interest of the debt thus increased was paid principally by moneys which properly belonged to the Annuitant Society, and by the same means it was being gradually liquidated. In 1839 the entire debt had been reduced to £5,700, and it was determined to pay this sum out of the Centenary Fund. So that the thousand pounds which had been hoped for out of the fund, towards the cost of the new enlargement, was not of course available. The result was a postponement of the alterations for four or five years. About the year 1844, the Midland Railway Company contemplated making their line from Leeds to Bradford, to pass through the grounds of the Grove estate, and opened negotiations with the Grove committee on the subject. In 1845, the committee resolved that the long-contemplated alterations should be carried out, and should be paid for out of the compensation

money to be given by the Midland Company, which was £2,000. This sum, however, was subject to reduction for certain lands to be purchased from the company. It would appear that only a small portion of the compensation money was available, for we find that in September, 1846, a subscription was resolved upon, to be started for cost of the alterations. In November following, the general design of the enlargement by wings was agreed to, and the following month a deputation was agreed upon to visit many of the circuits in Yorkshire to obtain subscriptions towards the alterations. In April of the following year, 1847, the committee resolved to proceed with the west wing, which contains the dining-hall, first, as the money available was insufficient for the whole scheme." It was opened in January, 1848, on a committee day, when the Rev. Elijah Jackson preached, the members and friends of the committee, with the boys, being present. The room over it afforded increased accommodation for sleeping, and enabled the governor to make other alterations in favour of the health and comfort of the boys.

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It was not till 1852 that any step was taken towards completing the symmetry of the building by the erection of the remaining wing. In that year it was resolved that the east wing, which was to contain a new schoolroom, should be proceeded with as funds should permit. In the following October it was arranged that a bazaar should be held during the next spring in behalf of the enlargement. The foundation stone of the new and second wing was laid by Sir William Atherton, then Attorney-General, in the following April, and about the same time the bazaar was held in the new

dining-hall, which had been built six years previously, and in a tent outside, when the sum of £1,100 was realised, which by subsequent sales was increased to £1,256. The new wing was opened the following year, and thus, forty-two years after the school was opened, premises worthy of its design were provided, which remained devoted to the purpose thirty years longer, and Woodhouse Grove became, as far as suitable premises could make it, one of the most splendid and desirable scholastic establishments in the kingdom.

In 1849 an important step was taken, during the governorship of Mr. Lord, under whose painstaking management the enlargement just described was effected, and by whose enlightened policy gas was now introduced. The premises had hitherto been lighted by means of oil lamps. Those in the schoolroom, which were used for the winter evenings' scholastic exercises, were in the habit of going out, perhaps, as Dr. Moulton humorously observes, because "one of the boys was lamp monitor!" The poverty of the light afforded by the lamps was very annoying, and I can well remember one of the masters used to complain that there was "just light enough to make the darkness visible." When it was determined to introduce gas the important question arose, whence it was to be procured. Very wisely it was decided to erect works on the Grove premises, which were completed in due course, and the services of a suitable man were obtained to superintend the manufacture. No sooner were the Grove premises illumined by gas than application was made by the railway company to supply the station; an arrangement which continues to the present time. In connection with this, Mr. Highfield (the father of the Rev.

H. G. Highfield, B.A.) offered a prize of five shillings for verses on what proved to be anything but an inspiring subject. Amongst the rejected attempts Dr. Moulton remembers the following:

Gas is very, very bright,

If to it you set a light;
But if that do not appear,

It doth not shine quite so clear!

The prize was won by John Cliffe Joll, whose composition is entitled "The Downfall of Lamps and Candles and Rise of Gas at Woodhouse Grove Academy," and consists of thirty stanzas of four lines each, to quote the whole of which would occupy too much space. It may be well to select

two or three verses:-

15. On many a dark, cold winter's night,

When in the school we stay'd,

These oil lamps gave a welcome light,
And did our learning aid.

16. But soon these lamps in knavish tricks
The candles far surpassed;

And oft the light of their poor wicks
But for an hour would last.

19. Sometimes in trimming up the lamps
They wasted half the night,

Yet, then, the worthless, lazy scamps
Gave but a doubtful light.

20. Such tricks, too many to relate,
Were now so often play'd,

The Governor (he would not wait)
His resolution made.

30. Hoping that gas will never cease
At Woodhouse Grove to reign,
And that his kingdom will increase-
I must my muse restrain.