The year 1910 was significant to many Wilmslow residents.

Not only was there a new king on the throne and the shock arrest of Dr Crippen for the murder of his wife, but closer to home there was the meeting of the suffragettes at Wilmslow Drill Hall and the second annual carnival in the village.

It also heralded the opening of Wycliffe Avenue School - the first school in the area that could educate infants, juniors and seniors all on one site.

The school started life as Wilmslow Council School, before being renamed Wilmslow Modern School, later Wilmslow County Secondary School.

And the school was clearly cutting edge with a report in the Evening Chronicle in 1937 saying: "Going to school is going to be great fun for boys and girls attending Wilmslow Modern School.

"In fact it will be almost like going to the pictures. The school is one of the first in the country to be equipped for talkie films."

But the school closed in 1978 when the girls moved to the new Thorngrove County High School and the infants to Fulshaw Primary School. The boys had moved to The Hough County Secondary School in 1963.

The buildings were used for a further 12 months by 100 pupils of Macclesfield Grammar School prior to the completion of the new Fallibroome School and part of the accommodation was also used by Wilmslow County Grammar boys.

Finally demolished in 1980 it made way for a housing estate.

Former pupil Meryl Wood who went to the school between the ages of 11 and 15 and also helps to organise the Wycliffe Avenue School Reunion each year, said: "I have very fond memories of the school.

"I was educated there during the war time so a lot of the teachers had been brought out of retirement to teach us.  But despite the war I still have many happy memories and so do my brothers who travel all the way from Henley-on-Thames and Hampshire just for the school reunion."

Former pupil and chairman of the Wycliffe Avenue reunion association, Cyril Bradley, 85, added: "About 23 years ago I met with a friend and former pupil, Kath Faulkner, who lived on Wycliffe Avenue as a girl.

"We were talking about how we had left school 50 years ago, so we put an appeal in the paper for former pupils and organised a reunion.  We christened it Wycliffe Avenue Reunion because there were four schools: the boys school, the girls school, the cookery school and the infant school. At its peak there were 130 people coming and we've always had a number who have travelled quite a way coming from Anglesey and the south. But numbers have declined in recent years. We’ve had a good response from the 70 to 80 year old age group, but it’s the younger ones who don’t respond and it will die out without them."

The next reunion will take place on Friday, April 23, at the Coach and Four pub, on Alderley Road, at 7.30pm.

Admission is £8 and includes a buffet and music. All ex-pupils and their partners are welcome.

For more information contact Meryl Wood on 01625 533248.