The Ridings School adopted the sports centre and in the first three months since opening have seen a considerable uptake in the use of the centre and involvement of local residents both as volunteers and service users. The Ridings School The Ridings was a secondary school for ages 11–18 in Ovenden, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, overseen by the Calderdale local authority. It was created in 1995 when two local secondary modern schools merged. The school is relatively small for its type; as of 2007 it had 537 students, of whom 28 were in the sixth form. Before it became the Ridings school, it
Ken Ridings Bradman, and took 2 for 27 and 4 for 26. The next season, against Queensland in Adelaide, he scored 151, adding 196 in 115 minutes with Bradman, in South Australia's total of 7 for 821 declared. He enlisted in July 1941 and served as a flying officer with the Royal Australian Air Force. He died while piloting a Sunderland over the Bay of Biscay in May 1943. Ken Ridings Kenneth Lovett Ridings (7 February 1920 – 17 May 1943) was an Australian cricketer and air force pilot who died in World War II. An opening batsman and occasional leg-spin bowler,