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4 unusual facts about Elfed High School


Buckley Town F.C.

Since moving from the old pitch at the Hawksbury, in front of the Elfed High School, to a purpose-built facility on the outskirts of town, at The Globe off Liverpool Road, the club has gone from strength to strength.

A notable former player is Danny Collins (Chester City, Sunderland, Stoke City and Wales International) and Ryan Shawcross (Manchester United and Stoke City) grew up in the town attending the Elfed High School.

Howell Elvet Lewis

Elfed was ordained in 1880 and was made pastor of St John’s English Congregational Church in Buckley, Flintshire, where the local Secondary School Elfed High School is named after him.

Sylvia Heal

Born as Sylvia Lloyd Fox in Hawarden, north-east Wales, the daughter of Shotton steelworker John Lloyd-Fox and Ruby Hughes, she was educated at the Elfed Secondary Modern School (now Elfed High School) on Mill Lane in Buckley, the Coleg Harlech, and at Swansea University, where she was awarded a BSc in Economics in 1968.



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