Unknown school – any ideas?
Photograph taken in June 1970 by Len Toulson. Courtesy of Neal Toulson.
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Unknown school – any ideas?
Photograph taken in June 1970 by Len Toulson. Courtesy of Neal Toulson.
Picture Stockton Archive 
Geez, this has took me since the 6th April to suss this one out. The school is the old Bowsfield Lane School situated on Bowsfield Lane. In the school’s place are now bungalows. The Three storey building is still there, it is according to Google earth a takeaway shop.
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Well done Pamela, that puts the school on the corner of Bowesfield Lane and Cecil Street, opposite the entrance to the old Stockton & Thornaby Hospital.
(https://goo.gl/maps/CxPbX2UnsJP2)
The houses under construction being those in the area of Pearson Court.
I haven’t come across any other pictures of this school on the site, though I guess it was somewhere near this one – https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2004/09/26/bowesfield-lane-school-c1930/
If you try really hard it can be made out on this photo – http://www.britainfromabove.org.uk/image/eaw024096, but little more than a blur.
The three storey building can be seen here – https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2004/05/11/streets-of-stockton-31/
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Mill lane
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I thought Bowesfield Lane School. The tall building is the rear of where the Royal Fish and Chip was situated
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Not Queen Street , never been a tree there also the house top right never there.
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Looks like the Old Robert Atkinson (became a part of the Dene) in Thornaby. Went there in the 60/70’s and the outside “Facilities” look familiar!
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I am in the dark as to which school. I have however enlarged the shot and the following might jog someone’s memory. The large building just to the left of the ‘school’ has 12 chimneys on what looks like three stories: surely this must be a Hotel / Pub with rooming.
The school is actually two building. To the left is the church – has the arched window with several ‘column’ splits. To the right is what must have originally been a T shaped building: the number of chimneys suggest that this was the school. Interestingly the school’s arched window differs from the school and the school appears to have a relatively recent flat roofed extension.
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The tall chimney stacks around the edge of the school roof are also a distinctive feature. Still no idea where it is though?
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If this is Queen St. School then it doesn’t look anything like this other picture?
https://picturestocktonarchive.wordpress.com/2014/09/02/queen-street-school-thornaby/
Was there more than one Queen St. School?
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Queen Street school in Thornaby.
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I think this is Queen Street Primary, near bottom Thornaby Road.
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Was it St. Joseph’s RC Primary in Norton before the “Open Air” School was built next to it?
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I thought the same Elaine, I used to go to that school and it looks very familiar.
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Richard Hind school, off Yarm Rd, Stockton?
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There were many schools similar to this one in Stockton or Norton. Does the Office style building on the right give any clues ?
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I don’t know which school it is but I know it isn’t Richard Hind which I attended in the 60s & 70s
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