1925 map of Bingley, Yorkshire.
albert walbank, born 1879
TEACHER
Albert Walbank was the youngest child of a shoe repairer in Bingley, Yorkshire. From the Hill Street Wesleyan School he won a scholarship to Bingley Grammar School and then, in 1892, when he was thirteen, he became a pupil teacher at Mornington Road Elementary School. In 1897 he won a Queen’s Scholarship to the Yorkshire College (later Leeds University) and in two years passed the Preliminary Examination and what was then called the Inter.B.Sc. as well as obtaining a first class teaching certificate. At this time he was living at home and travelling daily by train to Leeds. In 1899 the train on which he was returning to Bingley was involved in a serious accident. He was in a front coach and sustained serious injuries, a broken leg and a fractured skull. After recovery he took up a career as a teacher, retiring in 1939. His son Frank became a distinguished historian of the Roman Empire, and his grand-daughter Dorothy a Lecturer in Classics and History at Cambridge University.
Source: Extracted from the life story of his son Frank W. Walbank. Additional photos provided by his grand daughter Dorothy Thompson.
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His father: Walbank, William. Born 1840. (13 pages). Boot mender.
His son: Walbank, Frank. Born 1909. (205 pages). Professor of Ancient History.