A team photograph of the Elwick Road Boy's School Rugby 1st Team, in 1913-14, although for some reason the boy in the front row is holding a football. Harold Lumsden Watson is in the back row, third from the left.

This image shows some Elwick Road boys in PE. The halls at Elwick Road both in the junior department downstairs and the secondary upstairs had partitions which separated the girls' schools from the boys'. They were opened once a year at Christmas. The boys enjoyed climbing the ropes for obvious reasons as the partitions had windows above head height!

The photos is from about 1954 and Brian Tunstall is one of the boys on the photo who told us this tale!

Elwick Road Domestic Science block apart from the bottom right classroom which was used for woodwork.

A team photograph of the Elwick Road 1st Cricket team, in 1913. Harold Lumsden Watson is in the middle row, far left (holding a cricket bat).

An interesting photograph of a group of girls from Elwick Road School, dated June 1911. The banner reads "God, Duty and Empire", although the purpose of this gathering is unknown.

Junior Boys class 6 1949.

Taken in 1968, Mrs Richardson was the conductor and George Davison the pianist.

Elwick Road Junior Girls 1st years 1959.

A class Elwick Road Junior Girls 1959

The photo was taken in 1911, a few years after the school opened. The writing informs us that it is 'teams' but unlikely teams for a sporting activity as the children seem to be in Sunday best. It appears that the children are holding reins with a boy at the front of each group ? It is some kind of celebration for the coronation of George V.

The photo is taken at the rear of the school in the playground.

Picture of boys from Elwick Road School, Hartlepool taken in 1935. Cuthbert (Sonny) Holdforth is 6th in from the right discounting the boys in the back row.

The photograph above is of  Elwick Road School.The teacher is Mrs. Corbett and the pupils shown in the photograph were sitting  their 11 Plus Exam in 1949.

Elwick Road School 1972

Just prior to demolition, the photo was taken looking towards the boys department. Senior boys were upstairs and junior boys downstairs. The girls' department at the far end of the building was exactly the same. At this point, the school had been part of the 6th Form College.

A photograph of the 1928/29 Boys' football team, winners of that year's Junior Challenge Cup, taken in the Burn Valley. Centre-forward James Tiplady is second from the right on the back row. The teacher right at the back is David Watson, with Mr. Gatenby on the left and Bert Laverty on the right. The school is just visible at the top right.

This photograph is of Elwick Road Send 11 football team 1924/25.

James Douglas Howe is 3rd from the right, on the back row.

Jame's spent most of his life living in Hartlepool, apart from five years war service  in the RAF.

His career was spent in the timber trade  working  as a rep for Christopher Brown's in Baltic Street. 

This photograph  shows James Douglas Howe playng for Moray House  football team Elwick Road School.

James Douglas Howe is on the left, back row.

The board in the background of the photograph says, Elwick Road Junior High School, June 1921 Handicraft Class.

The boy in the front and to the left in the photograph could be either Isaac Newton or his younger brother Herbert? However, it's more likely to be the younger brother Herbert, who would have been aged eleven when the photograph was taken and who died in September 1921 believed to be from mackerel poisoning?

Staff from Elwick Road Senior Boys Svhool, in the 1930s. The PT Instructor, Frank Dowling, never wore a tie!

Teachers from Elwick Road Senior Boys School making up a team in 1940.

Taken in 1999 at the rear of the school the boys department was to the left, the girls to the right.

The playground did, until it was part of the 6th Form College, have a brick wall to separate boys and girls and,certainly in the 1960s and before, children were often reprimanded for talking to the opposite sex through the gate.  The additonal brickwork above the Boys and Girls rear entrances were added circa early 1950's for the Senior Boys Headmaster and the Senior Girls Headmistress 

This school opened in 1906 and closed in 1974. When it was opened, the boys and girls from the Upper Grade School in Park Rd were transferred from there to the new school and for a number of years it was the Upper Grade School.
Before demolition in 2001, it was part of Hartlepool 6th Form College until 1999 and was primarily the art department. A care home has been built on the site.

Prizegiving at Elwick Road Senior Girls . The image was in Hartlepool Mail November 26fth 1964.

A group of school boys from Elwick Road School, on the Burn Valley playing field  in 1942.

In 1999, the school had a reunion prior to demolition and this provoked quite a lot of interest. One visitor was ex dance teacher Cora Tucker, then 95 who said ;

"A few of the males who attended seemed to have forgotten they were nicknamed Elwick road Bulldogs and the Tech boys were Tech, Tech Mucky Necks. When I attended it was a secondary modern school and we paid sixpence to attend. We did not wear uniforms and were not allowed to cycle to school unless we lived over Caledonian Road way. On Empire Day we sang outside dressed in our best. There was a photo taken of us in 1911 holding flags of England, Scotland and Wales which I gave the museum. I was holding the Welsh flag with a Welsh girl called Robinson.

I remember Miss Vart headmistress of the junior school and Miss Leech of the seniors.

Group of girls from 1965 A class

Irene's hard work at school clearly paid off as at the age of fifteen, successfully gained her Junior Commercial Certifacate with excellent grades.

The front cover of Lena Irene Garthwaite's Pupil's Report Book in 1942. Irene attended Elwick Road Central School.

Inside pages of Irene Garthwaite's Pupil's School Report, from Elwick Road Central School in 1942.

Irene Garthwaite's midsummer term report for 1942.

Irene Garthwaite's December 1942 school report.

Any girl who went to Elwick Road Junior School would remember making a felt purse like this which would demonstrate embroidery skills. This one was done in the Elwick Road green and gold around 1964 by Gillian Oberlin-Harris nee Brodie.

On the occasion of this reunion, unfortunately the School building was locked. Elwick Road junior & secondary.

In the girls' schoolyard, a group of old pupils who looked around Elwick Road School before it was demolished.  On the occasion of this reunion, unfortunately the School building locked.

This is a class of 'standard 4' (now Y6) or possibly first year senior boys at Elwick Road School. Note the desks: designed for two people, with inkwells and a hinged top. 

Possibly Erica Edwards