Photograph taken when the school was very new in 1912. In the left background, the houses facing will be those on the north side of Park Road close to the Belmont Gardens exit as the houses on the south side were not built until the 1920s
HHT&N 581
Date (of image) : 1912
Part of the "Douglas Ferriday" collection
Location
West Hartlepool High School for Girls, Eldon Grove, Hartlepool, opened in 1912.
Prior to this, there was a grammar school department for boys and girls in the Technical School in Lauder Street. When Hartlepool schools adopted the comprehensive system in 1973, the High School buildings were used as part of Brinkburn Comprehensive School. In the late 1980s, the building was demolished and Eldon Grove Academy (a primary school) opened on the site in 1989.
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