DURSLEY’S old Rednock School, pictured here, was knocked down in 2009.

The site that the school stood on originally belonged to Captain Graham who lived in Rednock House – "red" for the colour of the dye used at the local cloth mill and ‘nock’ meaning hill reflecting his Scottish ancestry – until he died in 1909 when it was bought by Sir Ashton Lister.

In 1921 the premises were passed on to Gloucestershire County Council to become a much needed secondary school, which became Dursley Grammar School.

In 1949 Dursley Secondary Modern was opened in Highfields and finally in 1971 the two schools were merged to become Rednock School, a single comprehensive for the town.

The new state-of-the-art Rednock School opened in 2009.

Many thanks to Kim Wilkins for these fabulous old photographs.