THe image taken in 1980, shows headteacher Miss Beth Measures 'digging' the foundations of the new school with the old one in view also. The school opened in 1981 and not long after Miss Measures took up a post in New Zealand.
Date (of image) : 1980
Donor : Hart Primary School
Location
A school was first built in 1838 in Front Street originally as a Church of England School. It became a Durham County Council School in 1940 and in 1953 moved to a new building close to the current school in Magdalene Drive which opened in 1981. In 1954, senior pupils were sent to Galley's Field in Hartlepool and numbers dropped. In 1968 the school was threatened with closure , however numbers rose when new housing was built in the village.
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