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Dunston Schools
Dunston "Board" School
Dunston Junior and Infant Schools were built on the site of an old orchard and opened as Board Schools by Ralph Carr-Ellison on December 14th 1874. They came under the auspices of the Whickham School Board. Under the Education Act of 1902 School Boards ceased to exist and the schools were taken over by Durham County Council from April 1st 1904. The name, "Board School" still lives on and even in 1974 it was still known as the Board School. It has been known as Durham Council School and Durham County School. In April 1974 it came under Gateshead MBC with the reorganisation of county boundaries and renamed Dunston Junior and Infant Schools. It is now called Dunston Riverside County School.
Pupils of Dunston Board School.
Dunston Church School
Dunston Church School was opened on November 4th 1818. The Church of England Mission was built opposite the school and later became Mission Cottages. These buildings continued in use as school and lecture rooms until the outbreak of the Second World War.
Dunston Hill School
Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
At Easter 1959 the senior departments of Dunston Hill School and Dunston County School combined to form Dunston Hill Modern School, moving in to new premises on Market Lane. The Headmaster was Mr Henry Nattress who was succeeded by his Deputy Alan Johnson.
It became Dunston Comprehensive School in 1973. This coincided with the raising of the school leaving to sixteen. An extensive building programme was started comprising of a large dining hall and kitchen, until then the meals had been cooked at a central kitchen and brought to the school. At the same time a Science, Art and Handicraft Block was built with provision for two Year Group Assembly rooms and offices. The School at this time was organised on a Year Group system with a Head of Year.
In 1975 with the reorganisation of boundaries the School was transferred from Durham County Council to Gateshead Metropolitan Borough and the building programme was suspended. Other Headteachers were Mr Winwood and Mr Robinson.
In 1990 with the reorganisation of Secondary schools in Gateshead a new school was created, taking pupils and some teachers from Dunston Comprehensive, Saltwell Senior High School and Hillhead Junior High School. The school was
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Quoted.. Kingsmeadow Community Comprehensive School
At Easter 1959 the senior departments of Dunston Hill School and Dunston County School combined to form Dunston Hill Modern School, moving in to new premises on Market Lane... unquote
was wondering Dunston Hill school and Dunston county school never moved or this a figure of speech, or is this another way of saying Dunston Hill Secondary School, Dunston comp was built ?
As the old main building is currently being demolished and was wondering when Dunston Comp was built ?
Cheers Ken
Posted by: ken at December 15, 2008 2:21 AM
please could any of you wonderous people please give me some information on beacon hill junior high school in the period 1973 till the demise of the school. any info would be much appreciated or if their is a web site to use
regards adam pick
Posted by: adam pick at February 13, 2009 10:45 PM
Sorry Adam, Beacon Hill Juniors was not in the area that our website covers, that is the former Whickham Urban District, so afraid we have no information about it, and haven't been able to find anything on the Web either.
Posted by: Whickham Web Wanderers at February 14, 2009 2:10 PM
hi i went to dunston comp think was in 1973 the first year miss all the good times had some very very bad times to shame thing carnt stay the same though class mates ken munro paul mcnally brian fletcher barry somervile john little derek bainbridge martin knox all best lads////// clarky
Posted by: kevin anthony clark at August 3, 2009 11:38 AM
I attended Dunston Board School in 1944 whilst I was evacuated from the flying bombs in London.
I lived at No.11 Lister Avenue with my grandmother.
I can only remember one pupil......a very good footballer called Ledger.
I returned to Newcastle in 1974 to watch my football team play in the third round of the Cup.
They were called Hendon.
Posted by: Tom Crompton at July 26, 2010 2:37 PM
My Mother, Hannah Frost, attended Dunston Church School in the years before the First World War. She once told me that she was three years old when she started.
Her eldest brother, Archie, was awarded the BEM in recognition of his long service at Dunston Power Station.
Posted by: Tom Crompton at July 29, 2010 8:41 PM
My uncle's papers include an undated letter from 12 Lister Avenue, Dunston on Tyne. Does anyone know when this street was built? It does not appear to have been in existence at the time of the 1911 Census. I need to know who lived there. Any help appreciated. They may be family members.
The writer was "serving my time as a fitter at Taylors & Palisters, just beside the Excelsior club". "The Seamen's Mission is pulled down now & they are building a new one, which is only one of the many changes in Dunston."
My mother and her older siblings were born in Newcastle but all the younger ones were born at 21 Kelvin Gardens. Does anyone know during which years the Scott family lived there?
My widowed grandmother eventually moved to 20 Tyndal Gardens. I was living with her early in 1943 when I went down with cerebro-spinal meningitis and was sent to the isolation hospital.
My mother's papers include a notebook containing her poetic works and a list of 26 names and addresses, most of them in the Gateshead area.
The poems are dated 1932 so she must have moved to London after that.
After the war she was in the CCG from 1946 to 1949. She was stationed in Mulheim/Ruhr and then in Dusseldorf towards the end of that time.
NB it is BAOR (British Army of the Rhine).
She worked in the Legal Section of the Military Government and knew such people as Charles Brandreth, father of Gyles, and Terence Prittie.
One Judge had his daughter placed in a convent near Brussels so I was sent there as well. His daughter was Wendy Farrington, who became one of our Olympic Skiers in 1960 and 1964.
The day after we accepted the place at the convent, we received the offer of a place, at long last, at the British school at Wilhelmshaven. Most people only wanted a place at the one at Plon. I spent the summer term of 1949 at "school" in a house in Dusseldorf with other children ranging in age from 5 to 15, owing to the lack of places.
One of my mother's poems mentions Longstaffs and Howards. She must have worked at one of them. Does anyone have any info? Employees mentioned are Amy Scott, Winnie Britton, Stanley Mead, George W.
Posted by: Margaret Johnson at August 19, 2010 5:16 PM
Margaret, Did we know each other in Thildonck? My father was an army officer and I spend some years there.
Posted by: Wendy Farrington at September 18, 2010 6:29 PM
I spent the 1st 4 yrs of my life at no 8 Tyndal Gardens Dunston. It's funny, even now I remember that house even though I was 4 when I moved out. Happy days.
Posted by: terry hattam at January 15, 2011 12:32 AM