Western Secondary Modern School

A Memory of Wallsend.

I attended western from about 1955 to 1960,Mr Taylor was our form teacher music was Mr bell,Mr proctor took science..Mr Goodfellow took woodwork also Mr Spencer woodwork,,Mr Schofields was the history teacher,, I think it was Mr Heward was the head,,I thought Mr Taylor was quite fair,,There was 5 cinemas in wallsend at the time The ritz, which is where weatherspoon is ,,Gaumont at other end of high street under the building is where Gordon Sumner used to practice in the recording studio,,The Royal(Ranch) showed cowboy films...The Tyne on station road later la continental.. Ernie Walker

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