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There are Central and Secondary Schools provided by the Education 

 Committee, both types supplying an efficient education : in the Palatine 

 Central Schools to 15, and in the Secondary Schools to 16 or 18. There are 

 numerous scholarships for capable pupils from the Elementary Schools to 

 these schools. There are the two Roman Catholic Secondary Schools, and 

 good private (or independent) schools in Blackpool, giving a sound secondary 

 education. There are the Fleetwood and the Poulton Grammar Schools 

 in the area to the north of Blackpool, and the two Secondary Schools of the 

 Lytham Charities in the area to the south of Blackpool. 



There are valuable scholarships open to competition to Blackpool pupils, 

 to enable pupils to pass to the Universities or to an engineering college. 

 (1 1 such scholarships were taken up in October last.) 



There are the Junior Institutes for the continuation of education of those 

 pupils leaving the Elementary Schools who wish to progress further up the 

 educational ladder ; there are also the various recreative centres for those 

 young people who require leisure time occupations. 



There are varied opportunities in the Adult Evening Institutes, and, through 

 the work of the voluntary organisations (W.E.A., etc.), for an intellectual use 

 of the leisure of adults, both men and women. 



The Technical College, with the Palatine Commercial and Domestic Central 

 Institutes, provide opportunities for those who, after acquiring a taste for 

 further practical work in the workrooms of the re-organised senior or central 

 schools, and in the Junior Institutes, or whose daily avocation necessitates 

 further study, and further education. Each may find in Blackpool those 

 educational facilities which life demands for work or for leisure, from the age 

 of five to 60. 



The new Blackpool Technical College will become what has been styled 

 ' The Workers' University ' for the whole of the Fylde area, including the 

 borough of Fleetwood, the borough of Lytham St. Annes, the urban district 

 of Poulton, the urban district of Thornton Cleveleys, as well as for the county 

 borough of Blackpool. 



The climate of Blackpool and district is ideal for boys and girls. Youth 

 thrives in its glorious air, and responds physically and mentally to its 

 exhilaration. The breezes from the sea are famed for their ozone and their 

 bracing effect on the growing child, while the wealth of sunshine, the low 

 rainfall and the general absence of fog, all tend to produce an atmosphere as 

 healthy as it is invigorating. As a result of this (especially as the L.M.S. 

 Railway Co. provide a good service of business trains to Manchester, etc.), 

 there is an increasing number of people who are taking up residence in Black- 

 pool and the immediate district in order that their children may enjoy the 

 benefit of the excellent schools and the wonderful climate. 



N.B. — Since the foregoing Article was written the Board of Education has 

 agreed to recognise Arnold School for Boys as a Grant-earning Secondary 

 School from August 1st, 1936. 



