YOU'VE got to be pushing 60 to have been educated at a grammar or girls' high school within the area now administered by North Lincolnshire Council.
Barton and Brigg were the last to become part of the switch to comprehensive education in the mid-1970s.
Scunthorpe had already made the change-over by then.
The switch to comprehensives meant the dreaded 11-plus exam becoming a thing of the past for boys and girls in their final year at local primary schools.
Today there is much debate...
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