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New school 1958
The Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail of September 1958 reports on the first pupils to attend West View Secondary Modern School. 300 children attended that first week and the headmaster Mr W Nixon told the Mail that he felt the children were stunned with the magnificence if the new school.
It was the first secondary school to be built in the old borough of Hartlepool by Durham Coumty Council and the first secondary school in the borough since Galley's Field opened in 1898. The new school was built to accommodate children from West View and Hart in particular and the children were transferred from Galley's Field.
Everything was ultra modern, the airy assembly hall, gymnasium and shower rooms for boys and girls, the highly equipped domestic science room, woodwork room and science labs. There was a dining room where 60 pupils could eat ' in the comforts of home'. The most novel feature reported was the bell system which was automatically set to denote the end of lessons.
The school very soon had its name changed from West View Secondary Modern to King Oswy Secondary Modern.
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