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Fanny Stephenson's Private School
The Durham Directory of 1870s mentions a private school kept by Miss Fanny Stevenson. "Some Chapters in the History of Whickham" by Helen Bowling records that this school was said to be the one in Church Chare taken over by Mrs Easey. However, in the Whickham Journal No 5, Winter 1978, there is an article by Alan Wright about Grace Hilda Cook. She says that she "was educated at a little private school known as Miss Fanny Stevenson's, which is now the Co-op next to West End Methodist Church." (The Co-op no longer has these premises and the church has become Whickham Community Church - 1999.) Miss Cook was born in 1892 and when she was 11 she went to Rutherford College in Bath Lane.
The Kelly's Directories of 1906, 1914 and 1921 mention Fanny Stevenson's Private School, but it isn't mentioned in the 1925 edition.