Former head of lower school June Apps, who organised the weekend together with a band of former pupils, parents and staff, said: "The event was a resounding success."

Among those present were doctors, lawyers, teachers, journalists, vets, dentists, businesswomen and, of course, mothers who began their careers within those walls.

"Their affectionate feelings for the school were evident throughout the weekend," said school spokeswoman Judith Kerr, head of English and sixth form tutor.

Leeds Girls' High will move to Alwoodley in September to join the boys at Leeds Grammar School under a new title, the Grammar School at Leeds.

The weekend reunion was a way of celebrating over 100 years of history before that merger happens.

Judith Kerr managed to assemble pupils from her original form of 1984 together with some of the current members of her form, 6 JJK.

The honours board in the beautiful Senior School hall attracted a lot of attention. Former pupils looked for their names and those of their contemporaries.

The library was another focus with its wonderful collection of Robert "Mouseman" Thompson English oak furniture, given by a "friend of the school" in 1934. It took 10 men to assemble all the bookcases and fittings in that year.

Photographs, old magazines and photocopies of original handwritten registers of pupils – dating back to 1876 – were on view in the school.

Dr Helen Jewell, who wrote A School of Unusual Excellence, to celebrate its centenary in 1976, met Kaye Gibson, author The Passing of Time which she wrote to celebrate the school's time at Headingley.
Helen, a pupil from 1954 to 1962, lectured all her working life at Liverpool University. Kaye left school in 2003 to study marketing and management at Newcastle University.

A programme of music provided entertainment on two afternoons and former head of music, Margaret Smith, rehearsed and conducted a choir of girls and staff from many different eras.