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This was the first frame school in the Scotch Settlement, S.S. #4. The teacher's name was Ed Shear. This photograph was taken in the late 1880's or early 1890's. The school is still standing on the corner of Middletown and the fifth concession.

Bond Head Public School, 1945-1946. Teacher was Mrs. Lylia Culbert.
Back Row, left to right: Lloyd Reynolds, Stewart Reynolds, Joe Reynolds, Jim Thompson, Art Preece, Wallace Reynolds, Peter Scanlon, Mrs. Lylia Culbert.
Middle Row: Alice Smith, Mildred Reynolds, Marion Burton, Ena Brown, Marie Wilson, Marguerite Dermott, Joyce Reynolds, Percy Scanlon, Walter Reynolds.
Front Row: Etta Whiteside, Mary Culbert, Margaret Sutherland, Norman Harvey, Donny Whiteside, Allan McLean, Doug Reynolds, Charles Hansford, Gordon Brown.

S.S. #5, Bond Head Public School, class from 1948-1949.

An old time postcard featuring Bradford Public School. This photo is from the Bradford Womens Institute Scrapbooks.

This high school was located on Queen Street in Bradford. This is a picture taken soon after the building was constructed in 1892 as the trees and bushes surrounding the school are still quite small. The first head master was S. Arthur Marling. This building burned down in 1924.

Bradford High School, destroyed by fire in 1923. These are the remains.

King George VI and Queen Elizabeth visited Canada.One warm evening in June 1939, the elementary school children and parents of West Gwillimbury drove to Alliston to see the Royal Couple on board the train as it passed through the little town. But the train did not stop and thousands of disappointed onlookers did not get a glimpse of the King and Queen. Engineer Harry Toman (brother-in-law of Herbert Bowles) was under instruction not to stop the Royal Train as it was late leaving the Toronto Station. At Midhurst, where 28 peoples were gathered, the train stopped to take on water supplies. King George VI stepped off the train to shake hands with the small group. One of those present was Edith Belfry, teacher of S.S. #9 Mount Pleasant. The Bradford High School students went by train to Toronto where they saw the Royal Couple riding in the Royal Car. The pupils had been given flags to wave and in some places the children put pennies on the railroad tracks.

Grade 10, Bradford High School.
Front Row - Theresa Watt, Dorothy Hamstra, Eldora Elliott, Mary Jane Collings, Barbara Saint, Eva Yaszczyszyn, Barbara Lee, Marilyn Hollingshead, Martha Roesner, Jean Horlings, Doris Griffiths.
2nd Row - Judy Whitty, Eleanor Jackson, Elizabeth Carr, Gwen Geddes, Mary Fischer, Ruth Andrews, Vivien Turner, June Nesbitt, Patricia Belfry, Mitsi Tezuka, Carolyn Schmidt, Mary Dales.
3rd Row - George Verkaik, James Verkaik, Robert Eadie, James Janse, Lee Winterkorn, Richard Jarzylo, Harold Newns, Henry Kleiss, Michael Kavchak, Paul Margetiak, Lloyd Coutts.
Back Row - Robert Kneeshaw, Donald Griffiths, Larry Belfry, Ivan Hounsome, Robert Duvall, Eric Fines, James Webb, Raymond Rand, Adolf Zielke, David Hambly.

S.S. #5, Bond Head School. This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1874

New Bond Head School, 1954.
Upper caption reads, "The New S.S. 5 West Gwillimbury building at Bond Head is a marked contrast with the old school, which can be seen behind at left. The old building was in continuous use for 80 years. In 1908, the roof blew off and had to be replaced with a new one. The new one-classroom school is of rug brick and has an aluminum roof and large windows all along the side facing the road. The first sod was turned on Thanksgiving Day and the new school, built by Contractor Wilfrid Halbert of Thornton, was moved into at the beginning of February. D.A. Lapp, public school inspector for South Simcoe, officially opened the building."