The Great Hall was built along with the rest of Sandfields Comprehensive School in the 1957/1958, opening to pupils in 1958.
The building consisted of a theatre seating 650 across a stepped stalls and balcony along with a small double-height foyer space and adjoining toilets.
Following the closure of the school in 2016 the site was due to be converted into a welsh language school. New-build finance became available to the local authority and the building was demolished along with the rest of the school buildings for a new build, Ysgol Gymraeg Bro Dur which is opened in September 2018.
Its a disgrace they knocked this building down.
It was the the only nice building in the whole school.
I was a former pupil at Sandfields Comprehensive from 1961 until 1967. It was a fantastic school and the teaching staff were excellent. Having completed my education I spent 3 years at King Alfreds College in Winchester and trained as a teacher for Design and Technology. In all I spent 12 years teaching and in 1982 having taught in a British forces school in Gütersloh , Germany
and not having a renewal of my contract I decided to change to a job as a technician in a local company in Gütersloh.
In January 2011 I retired.
I was very distressed to see videos of the demolition of such a wonderful school.