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"Thank you for visiting Foxwood High School" the teacher said so many years ago as I looked round the school with my parents. How those memories of the school keep coming back. It was some 27 years since I left  in 1982 but what had become of my friends, teachers and my old school?

When I heard Foxwood was to be demolished, I decided to document it, warts and all before it, and all its memories are lost forever, which ever way you look at it Foxwood was part of nearly everyone's lives who lived or grew up in the East Leeds area in the late 1950's to the mid 1990's.

The building may have changed its name over the past 50 odd years from Foxwood High School, East Leeds High in 1992  to East Leeds Family Learning Centre in 1996. To me and so many others it will always be Foxwood.

I had the opportunity in September 2009 to return to Foxwood and look round every floor and nearly every room taking photos as I went. Unfortunately the old workshops and the 2 gyms had been demolished in February 2009 and were long gone.

The idea of the website is to try and capture as much information as possible, so feel free to contact me if you have any photos, story's or just anything you would like to share with others.

I will leave you with an extract from the last paragraph of  the late Bob Spooner's book "Lay Stone on Stone" about his time as Headmaster at Foxwood, written in 1988.

.........It would have been satisfying if the first comprehensive school in Leeds had stayed to be part of the national heritage and not just a meteor that shot across the sky and burnt itself out. But it was not to be and in the cold light of dawn the bulldozers are preparing to reduce what we have built to rubble........