Four tragic teenagers who died while pupils at a Bradford school were remembered this week at the opening of a memorial garden.

A poignant ceremony for families and friends was held at Buttershaw Business & Enterprise College yesterday after school.

One of those being remembered was 16-year-old Charlotte Wilson who was a back-seat passenger in a Renault Megane which crashed into a dry-stone wall in Chat Hill Road, Thornton, Bradford, in the early hours of October 3, 2009.

Also being remembered was 14-year-old Rebecca Wood who last year drowned in the bath she was running for her sister. She had fallen in the water after suffering an epileptic fit.

The memorial garden close to the school’s drive was specially designed and created by pupils from across all year groups.

When the college moved from its old building into its new one, plaques that had honoured two Buttershaw High School students who died in 1985 were brought with it.

The plaques were in memory of John Platt who died in a road accident in Beacon Road and Moira Hodgson who died in the Bradford City Fire.

They are now alongside plaques for Charlotte and Rebecca.

Assistant head teacher Craig King who helped co-ordinate the garden’s construction said: “This garden can’t bring any of them back, but it can ensure that they will never be forgotten at Buttershaw Business and Enterprise College which helped to shape and enriched each of their lives.”

Charlotte’s dad Scott Wilson said the garden was a wonderful tribute. He said: “The school asked us to pick a couple of rose bushes to go in, which was lovely of them. We’ve already planted our own rose in our own garden for her, it’s an English Charlotte.

“We are so proud Charlotte is being honoured in this way and her memory is being kept alive like this. It will also be a quiet place where her little sister Shellby will be able to go to remember her when she’s in school.”

Rebecca’s mum Jennifer Wood said: “We are so pleased about the garden, it’s a mark that shows she had a life.

“We chose a rose called Awareness because Rebecca died from her epilepsy and Beauty Star because she was our star.”