Staff pictured in 1927, the Headmistress was Miss Nelson. Stockton Secondary School for Girls was renamed Grangefield Grammar School for Girls in 1951.
Photograph courtesy of Gillian Brookes nee Hugall.
Picture Stockton Archive
A Pictorial History of Stockton-on-Tees
Picture Stockton Archive 
All of them look quite sad. One wonders how many of these ladies were war widows or had lost the man in their life in the carnage of the First World War. This side of our glorious past tends to be forgotten. I recollect that when I was working in the Netherlands, in my final job, a youngish German said to me that no one in his class had grandfathers.
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My Grandmother went here and I have a photo taken about the same time, another similar group, I only know as I remembered the face of the lady in the middle at the front. I have a few such photos.
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I love these old photos. The ‘dicky bird watching faces of the dead’ (Dylan Thomas. Under Milk Wood)
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The lady second from left on front row reminds me of Miss Heavisides, who was Head Teacher at Bowesfield Girls School in 1950`s, where I worked as School Clerk from 1954 to 1956.
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