South Park High School, Lincoln

The first headteacher retired in July 1928, being replaced by Miss D Griffiths of East Grinstead.

By January 1933 the headteacher was Miss Phyllis Higgs, who died in July 1971.

[8][9] Rab Butler, the President of the Board of Education attended a meeting at the school on Wednesday 24 September 1941.

[13] A new headmistress was appointed in March 1955, 39 year old Miss Margaret Joan Widdowson, the deputy head of Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School for Girls in Mansfield, where she attended school.

[14][15] She took up her position in September 1955,[16] and would be headmistress for 25 years, and died in Lincoln County Hospital on 8 July 1997, aged 82.

[17] In November 1955, the speech night was attended by Henry Hurd Swinnerton, Professor of Geology at University College Nottingham.

[28] South Park had been originally intended for 200 pupils, however, by the time it closed its size had reached 900.