Wallsend Central

A Memory of Wallsend.

Central Girls school Wallsend was operational during the ten years I was there from 1941.
It was one of three large units that were respectively, The Infants, Boys, and Girls. We were segregated once we survived the 'Infant's, and the only time I recall any association with the 'Girls,' was when a radical experiment allowed us to substitute woodwork for cookery lessons! A lovely lady called Miss(?) Terry taught us the basics.
The school stood overlooking the Burn Close, near to St. Peters Rd., where it crosses the Burn into Rosehill.
I was a governor there for about three years in the early nineties when it was a mixed school. Efforts had been made to bring it up to acceptable standards but in the last ten years or so it has been closed, and eventually demolished.
There were allotments behind the school in my days and my grandfather had his unit behind the boys outdoor toilet. He had a steady trade with teachers who bought his vegetables.

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