SCHOOL HISTORY

MISCELLANEOUS ARTICLES

 

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Northern Counties Technical Council Examination  Results 1940
Junior Technical Grouped Course (2nd Year)
Archibold Robert H.
Bateson Percival
Rennie Robert
Bolam John G.
Crooks George H.
Duffy John
Harrison Douglas
Hopper Arnold T.
Humphries John
Jordon Henry
Kydd Horace
Metcalfe John R.
Moffitt William
Tweedie William J.
Whittingstall Alfred J.
Wilkinson Kenneth

Junior Commercial Grouped Course (2nd Year)
Casey Alice
Craik Dorothy M.
Franklin Ada
Futers Mary I.
Henderson Sybil S.
Jackson Doris
Jameson James
Lascelles Elizabeth
Longstaff Mary
McAvay Edith
Marshall Kenneth E.
Paterson Dorothy M.
Phillips Anne
Robson Marjorie
Rodger Audrey
Scott Muriel
Simpson Ivy
Simpson Jean
Talbot Edith L.
Younger Jean
The above was collated from the Shields Gazette 3/7/1940.
Headlines were the bombing of Princess Street in Jarrow
14 were killed.

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Who's mother is this?

(answers in FORUM please)

 

 

Tales of the past

It would appear that when the school closed and the workmen came in pre- demolition they bricked up a classroom with a teacher still inside.  Apparently he had to escape via a window! (or do you know better).

What happened to the beautiful stained glass windows at the back of the stage?

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More from our hardworking editor:-  

 

In 1936 it would seem that there was a turbulent relationship with the Central School and Jarrow and Hebburn Cooperative Society.
In the minutes of the Jarrow Council dated 27/1/36 the Council's Education Secretary deplored the fact that there were pupils from JCS working at the Coop when they should have been at school.  Moonlighting in otherwords!
However, later that year, one of the top brass at the Coop wrote that, "The eight girls from Jarrow Central School who came for job interviews were a splendid type of girl and it was very difficult to choose between them.  A credit to their school!"
That same year it was reported that, of 49 school leavers, only 13 didn't find immediate employment.
This, incidently, was the year of the Jarrow March!
In 1937 the students were made up of 239 from Jarrow, 103 from Hebburn, 74 from Felling and 1 from Wallsend.
A Miss Doris Reeve was lab assistant and school clerk.  Her wage was £26.00 per annum.

 

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Extract from EVENING CHRONICLE 

Circa 1941/42

Courtesy Lance Liddle(Editor)

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                                         EXTRACT FROM  book by EX- JCS PUPIL AND LOCAL AUTHOR


(From “Beyond Multikitty” (2nd Edition) and “The War Years 1939/ 1945

By Robert Wightman.  © Robert Wightman 2001)

 'Reprinted by kind permission of the author.'

Bob Wightman attended JCS from 1942-1947

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