[1] Its aim was stated as being to give "a methodical and progressive course of education, physical, mental and moral, of a wider scope and more advanced degree than that given in Elementary Schools, combined with workshop and laboratory practice in general, scientific and commercial subjects.

[1] In March 1918, the school's most notable son, Archie Leach, was expelled at the age of fourteen for sneaking into the girls' lavatories.

His contemporary at the school, Sir Archibald Russell, was deputy to the French designer of the supersonic airliner Concorde.

This building was listed Grade II in January 2002, at a time when the local education authority was planning to move the new Fairfield High School to a new site.

[10] One reason for the move was that the existing site had room for only some five hundred pupils, a number which was considered to be too low.