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This school is a little complicated. It has had quite a few different names, including South Shields High School for Boys, the Westoe Secondary School or Westoe Higher Grade School, South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys or the present-day Harton School. I am not sure just what kind of schools these were.
Some of the early schools may have been technical schools or Secondary Moderns. Perhaps the school had two diffeent streams, technical and academic.m We do know that Harton is a comprehensive school. The uniform has varied over time, but by the 1950s had become a blazer. The school was founded as the South Shields Boys' High School in Mowbray Road (1885). Westoe Secondary School began in the Ocean Road Schools Arts and Science section (1887) and became the Westoe Higher Grade School (1890). South shields and westoe were combined in 1936 to form the South Shields High School for Boys in a custom-built building in Harton (1936). The name of the school was changed to the South Shields Grammar-Technical School for Boys (1955). I'm not sure if the addition of the name grammar meant that an academic stream was added to the curriculum. The school became Harton Comprehensive (1974). It had became co-educational (late 70s) and s now the Harton School, which is a co-ed comprehensive, with Technology College status.
A HBC reader writes, "The South Shields Techical Grammar School for Boys is about 10 minutes walk from my home. This was one of the schools I mentioned in my personal experieces pages which was one of only two schools in the town that had a school uniform. The crest on the boys' blazers shows a lifeboat, the reason for this being that the first real lifeboat was built by William Wouldhalve of South Shields. My school did not have a uniform like South Shield."
There is a wondrful internet site devoted to the school.
Related Chronolgy Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[The 1880s]
[The 1920s]
[The 1930s]
[The 1940s]
[The 1950s]
[The 1960s]
[The 1970s]
[The 1980s]
Related Style Pages in the Boys' Historical Web Site
[Long pants suits]
[Short pants suits]
[Socks]
[Eton suits]
[Jacket and trousers]
[Blazer]
[School sandals]
