I will find out for you tommorow Micky, my brother should know he used to hang around down there. He's early 40's so sounds like same era as you
I've just done some digging on crofton history site. There's an old girls school called the Richmal Mangnall where one of the Brontes attended, that was in the 1800's. Then it mentions one called Browns which was knocked down in 1980. Is that the one??