3 thoughts on “West Street in Yarm. c1890”

  1. I remember it well Carol [and you and your sister!] it was the junior and the senior school,I remember Mr Gibson , Mr Mitcheson was the head but left and Mr Horrocks took over, do you remember Miss Palfreeman? I was speaking to her last week,she taught us when I was 9 yrs old! I went to the senior till Egglescliffe sec modern was built then we went there, where I have worked for 15 yrs!.

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  2. The school directly opposite to Hope House was Yarm Junior School (the Primary School was under the viaduct on the right-hand side). I hadn’t realised there was a school there as far back as 1890 to be honest. I enjoyed going to the Junior School and can recall the layout fairly clearly. One year in the 1950s I was tripped up accidentally (I can still remember who it was and I swear it was an accident!) when running from the girls’ playground into the cloakroom, ending up with a broken front tooth (which had just come through) and finally my very first denture! I remember sitting on the lap of one of the most handsome of the men teachers, Mr Frank Gibson, I think, who calmed me down considerably. I knew he was somebody special among the older girls, because my older sister idolised him. Vry shortly after this, he was tragically killed (I am led to believe) in an aeroplane accident, and a bench was placed in a rose garden outside the school kitchen in his memory. I took a photograph of it a very long time ago, and managed to get a couple of photographs of the Junior School shortly before it was demolished. I also recall the church next door to the school, and one Christmas we had a very special guest at our Christmas Carol Service – Dame Janet Baker. I have a photograph in my possession of Dame Janet Baker at the service from one of the local newspapers.

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    • Carol I went to both schools in the early 60s, I’ve recently completed an article on the infant school down Church Wynd and now I’m looking for any information and photos of the junior school on West Street
      Regards
      Ray Gregory

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