Interior views of Nelson Higher Grade School c1984. The balustrade shows the makers name of J Mainwaring & Company, Stockton. The school on Nelson Terrace in Stockton was used as the College of Art during its final years.
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A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Hi where was Nelson Higher Grade School
From Stockton High Street you went up Dovecote Street, Nelson Terrace was first street on the Right and Prince Regent Street first on the left.
We knew it as Stockton Secondary School. We also went to Night School in that building which has since been demolished.
Frank.
According to the Gazette, in 1890 Messrs. Mainwaring operated a small foundry in Skinner Street, Stockton.
I went there when it was being used as Stockton and Billingham technical college back in 1970-71.
When I started at Stockton Secondary in 1949 the morning assembly was held here. What happened to the War Memorial that was mounted on the wall at the back of the gallery I cannot remember it at Grangefield.
The War Memorial was moved out to the Grangefield Grammar School near the Stockton Cricket Ground. It was positioned at the back of the main hall in the boy’s school.
It was a crying shame that this building was allowed to be demolished. Like others in the borough it should have been restored.
Indeed ! The philosophy at that time was that if it was a solid Victorian building knock it down and replace it with a “modern” building. Look at the building that replaced the Lit and Phil Institute.