Figure 1.--This is a photograph of a class at the Boys' School, Rosebank in 1937. We think it is third year class meaning boys 13-14 years of age. |
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We note the Boys' High School Rosebank, West Hartlepool during the 1930s. Hartleppol in Durham first appears in history during the early medieval period. It began as a monestary and subsequebnt fishing village. It developed into a seaport abd subsequent rail station. It was bombarded by German ships during World War I. We are not sure just what kind of school theBoys' High School was. We note no informtive postings on the internet. British schools had a variety of names. We know about academically selective grammar schools and less academically rigorous secondary modern schools. We are not sure just where high schools fell into that continum. A posting by an alumnus suggests to us that it was an academically rigorous school comparable to a grammar school. Hopefully our British readers can tell us just vwhat a high school meant during the 1930s. We note some photographs from the Geo. Holdsworth & Son studio in Hartlepool.
The 1st two photographs are from a Coronation Souvenir folder for the Class or whole school for 1937. Others were from a 1933 souvenir folder. Another photograph was taken between the two previous years. A photograph of the grounds look more like a private school, but we think 'high school' was only used for state schools. There was also a Girls High School. Sometime after the War. the two were apparently combined as we begin go note references to just the Rosebank High School.
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