A group of children eagerly awaiting the opening of the new school. 1st right on front row is Joanne Gething, 3rd right is ...... Mackenzie and third right is Carol Brown. The boy in glasses is Stuart Watson now in New Zealand.
Date (of image) : 1981
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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