What school did you go to?

[Far Tibetan Mountain]

Gilesgate infants
Gilesgate juniors
Loads of random comps around the country
Belmont comp

You a teacher?

 

[njmackem]

Barnes Primary (Sunderland)
Barnes Junior (Sunderland)
Chilton Moor Junior (Houghton-Le-Spring) (means Fencehouses)
Houghton Grammar
Durham Johnston.

There was a Chilton Moor Junior school????

 

[Goat Eyes]

Same

Another top lad.

I left RAPS in 91 and Thornhill in 96.

 

[njmackem]

St. Benets
Dame Dot
Dubmire
Houghton Kepier
Monkwearmouth College (Shiney Row)
Cardiff Uni

 

[bobpc30]

Hedworth Lane infants and juniors.
Bedeburn road juniors and finally Jarra central left in 74. Central school shut and pulled down in 75

That spring?
What school did they pull down in 75?

 

[Seaham Towny]

Ropery Walk Primary School
Seaham School of Technology
Durham Sixth Form Centre

 

[sb022x1030]

St cuthberts then st aidans

 

[AndrewP]

There was a Chilton Moor Junior school????

Aye. My uncle used to go there, he's nearly 70. You'll know he building, it's next to the church, I forget what it's used for these days though.

 

[shipbuilder]

Before me then, BTW it was a technical scule like

It was up till 1973 the year I left. Had only 2 female teachers then.

 

[gizmoganzee]

It was up till 1973 the year I left. Had only 2 female teachers then.

Iirc then, when I joined the lower school it hadn't long happened

 

[chevvies]

There was a Chilton Moor Junior school????

Correct, now Ho'ton Heating evidently:

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[gegsongegsonlegs]

Bishop Harland Primary (79-86)
Redhouse Comp (86-91)
Monkwearmouth College (91-93)
Northumbria Uni (93-97)

Same here for schools.. you were a year above me.

 

[njmackem]

Correct, now Ho'ton Heating evidently:

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Would have thought I would have known it growing up in the area like... Learn something new every day,

 

[MickeyV]

Your little sister may know my little sister, name is Vinny!!

I'll ask. My sis was known as Vicky but that wasn't her real name!

 

[errant]

I'll ask. My sis was known as Vicky but that wasn't her real name!

There was a girl at our year called Vicky, but that wasn’t what she was called (think someone in our year had liberal/irresponsible parents on a trip to Benidorm).

 

[wash]

That spring?
What school did they pull down in 75?

They closed the central school in Jarra in 75 and pulled it down. I left in 74

 

[bobpc30]

They closed the central school in Jarra in 75 and pulled it down. I left in 74

Croft Terrace?

 

[SteveFTM]

Aye. My uncle used to go there, he's nearly 70. You'll know he building, it's next to the church, I forget what it's used for these days though.

Opposite what was the cricket club, no idea what the school is now.

Edit: houghton heating

East Rainton school

Hetton Comprehensive school

 

[Billy Fish]

Mr D always says they could smoke in the sixth form common room at St. Leonard's and they went to the garden house at lunch time

No smoking in School and the drinking establishment of choice was the snooker club down town in my day

 

[The Red Telephone]

Graybridge.

That school leopard was a right b*****d.