The West Bridgford School is a co-educational comprehensive school with academy status in West Bridgford, Nottinghamshire, England. History Grammar school The school used to be a grammar school and was then known as West Bridgford County Secondary School. It moved to the present buildings in 1938 and became The West Bridgford Grammar School in 1944. The school's original site was on Musters Road, which was occupied by the old Musters Medical Practice. In September 1938 the school moved to a newly constructed building adjoining Loughborough Road, which is now its main building. The houses were Cavendish, Chaworth, Manvers, Pierrepont, Musters, and Byron. Prof Robert Peers, the former Principal of University College Nottingham, gave a talk at the speech day on Thursday 14 November 1946. The headteacher John William Holmes died on Saturday 2 July 1949 aged 59 at home on Trevor Road; he had been headteacher since September 1933, and had been ill from December 1948. Previously he had been head of Queen Elizabeth Grammar School at Atherstone, and was a former modern languages teacher from Halifax. His funeral service was conducted by Rev D Campbell-Miller, head of Magnus Grammar School. A new headteacher N.A. Alston, educated at Manchester Grammar School, a physics teacher, the former head of Woodhouse Grammar School in Sheffield from 1946, was appointed in November 1949; he took over as headteacher on Wednesday 19 April 1950. In January 1952, there were firm plans to change the name of the school to the Philip Barber Grammar School, named after Major Philip Barber, who was Chairman from 1931-45 of Nottinghamshire County Council. Sport In September 1949, 16 year old Jean Petchell got to the final of the British Junior Lawn Tennis championships, playing Lorna Cornell. Her talent had been developed by games mistress Miss A Muschamp. Nottinghamshire Womens Hockey Association played matches on the school sports ground, with Nottinghamshire schools Rugby Union team, and hosted county cross-country competitions. Competitions On Thursday 8 October 1959 at 7.30pm on the BBC Light Programme, in heat 4 for England in Top of the Form, a boys team, won against a girls team from Edgbaston High School, which was recorded on Tuesday 22 September 1959. On Thursday 19 November 1959 at 7.30pm in second round, the team played boys from Redruth County Grammar School, which the team won. Redruth had beaten a girls team from Tunbridge Wells Girls' Grammar School in Kent,