Kirklees College

Part of Dewsbury College is the former Wheelwright Grammar School for Boys. It had around 450 boys in the 1960s and was administered by the County Borough of Dewsbury Education Committee.

The Dewsbury centre has three campuses in and around Dewsbury:

• The Batley School of Art is on Birkdale Road.[3]

• The main campus is on Halifax Road, Dewsbury, about 200 yards from the main site.[4]

• Wheelwright Campus is home to all of the art courses, but is also home to sports and fitness courses, due to the large playing field on its grounds.[5] The centre operates an award-winning Photographic course – BA Hons Contemporary Photographic Arts, a full-time three year honours degree from the University of Huddersfield.[6] The course has a national reputation and has approval from the 'British Institute of Professional Photographers'.

Kirklees college as seen from Lockwood Road

A new campus has been constructed off Manchester Road, adjacent to the River Colne, just outside the Huddersfield town centre, at a projected cost of £85 million, to replace the New North Road Campus.[7][8]

The college's Taylor Hill Centre, on Close Hill Road in the Huddersfield suburb of Taylor Hill, provides full-time courses relating to animal care, land-based studies, conservation and countryside management.[9]

• Sir David Brown, engineer and entrepreneur
• Anthony Flinn, chef
• Justin Hawkins, musician
• Hervey Rhodes, Baron Rhodes, Labour MP from 1945–64 for Ashton-under-Lyne
• Marcel van Cleemput, toy designer
• Cousin Silas, musician
• Paul Scriven, Liberal Democrat peer

• Betty Boothroyd, Labour MP from 1973–74 for West Bromwich and from 1974–2000 for West Bromwich West
• Walter Harrison, Labour MP from 1964–87 for Wakefield
• Keith Hellawell, Chief Constable from 1993–98 of West Yorkshire Police and from 1990–3 of Cleveland Police
• Tula Lotay, comic book artist
• Victoria O'Keefe (1969–1990), stage and film actor best known for playing nuclear war survivor Jane Beckett in made-for-TV film Threads (1984)
• Andi Watson, cartoonist

• Richard Alexander, Conservative MP from 1979–97 for Newark
• John Dunning CBE, Director from 1955–72 of the Rocket Propulsion Establishment at Westcott, Buckinghamshire
• Robin Esser, Editor (1986–89) of the Sunday Express
• William George Fearnsides, Sorby Professor of Geology from 1913–45 at the University of Sheffield
• Philip Fothergill, English woollen manufacturer and Liberal Party politician
• Leslie Fox, mathematician
• Sir Marcus Fox, Conservative MP from 1970–97 for Shipley
• Larry Hirst CBE, Chairman since 2008 of IBN Europe, Middle East and Africa
• Prof Tom Kilburn CBE, worked with Frederic Calland Williams to produce the Manchester Mark 1 known as Baby in 1946, one of the first computers, and Professor of Computer Science from 1964–81 at the University of Manchester
• John Morrell, BBC producer of Children in Need and That's Life!
• Tony Nicholson, cricketer
• Donald Sadler OBE, President from 1967–9 of the Royal Astronomical Society
• William Senior CBE, Chief Dental Officer from 1947–61
• Air Commodore Edmund Stockwell CB, Command Education Officer from 1968–72 of RAF Training Command
• Dr Percy Walker CBE, aeronautical engineer, who helped design the Hawker Hurricane, and later was largely responsible at the Royal Aircraft Establishment for discovering that metal fatigue caused the first de Havilland Comet airliners to crash
• Eddie Waring, rugby league commentator