Cottage Homes boys ophanage in Ponteland Northumberland

[norma-np]

I am trying to find out infomation and if there are any record books about this ophanage which was just out of the village of Ponteland on the road to Kirkley in the 1930's  It was set up by the Poor Law Guardians of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1903

My father attended from a very early age until he was old enough to leave which was around about 16 I think. I would like to find out if there were any records of his time spent there, about life in general.

Any help would be appreciated

Cheers

Norma

[CaroleW]

Hi and welcome to Rootschat

There is an article and some photos of Ponteland Cottage Homes on this website

http://users.ox.ac.uk/~peter/workhouse/Liverpool/Liverpool.shtml

Select Children and Education from the menu and then Cottage Homes

Scroll down until you see By 1914, the number of cottage or "small" homes (developments comprising just one or two homes), had jumped to 115:

Select Newcastle on Tyne from the list below that heading

About half way down the next page you'll find the info

[norma-np]

Hi,

thanks for the prompt reply, I've been going around and around the internet looking for this, without much success.  I've been doing a little on my family history and now find I have a lot of names but no information regarding times, events what it was like etc.  I've had a quick read of the link you sent me and I'm sure it provide me with lots of information to move forward at last.

Again thanks, I'm sure after this rapid reply I'll be posting more

Cheers
Norma

[charlotteCH]

Hi Norma and welcome to rootschat.

It's a very friendly helpful crowd so do post your queries and someone will try to help.

Good hunting,
charlotte

[Avril3]

Hi,
The former Cottage Homes at Ponteland are now the headquarters of Northumbria Police, and I think that before that they were Ponteland College of Education where teachers were trained.
Avril

[maddfridge]

hi there

my own father was there from 1923 to 1935 and there are some records held not just at the northumberland record office !

the hexham union which my father came under sent some of its children there but some records are also held by the tyne a wear archives

Such as the link

http://communities.northumberland.gov.uk/Prudhoe_C13.htm

some pages from the school etc.

i looked at this document in 1996 and there is very little refernce to people such as 2 new pupils admitted today etc with no names

national archives link

http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/a2a/records.aspx?cat=155-ces217&cid=0#0


i have just written to blanford house tyne and wear archives for a search cost of any relevant documents .



pm

[*sparkle *]

Hi

I have just been reading this thread about Cottage Homes in Ponteland. I was wondering if anyone has had any luck with info on the homes as I can't seem to find anything.   My mother and her sister were there abt 1940 - 1955.  There doesn't seem to be much out there about it at all.
 
Thanks

[maddfridge]

hi there

there are some documents at the tyne and wear archives i had a letter confirming that some personal details are held but here comes the downer.

1 you have to be a living relative for me ok
2 prove the person is deceaed

3 then you have to pay an hourly search fee of around 25 poounds an hour as it is all protected under the data protection act as persons may still be alive who went there

this now makes sense as they did not closee until 1959 !

hope this is some help

cheers
 

[jmichaeltaylor]

There was an article written in the 1999 edition of 'Pont Island News' published by Ponteland local History Society - see http://www.ponthistsoc.freeuk.com/pinindex.pdf

The full item can be sent in a pdf form after a small donation to the society-however the paper does not contain details of people.

Whilst the  Ponteland Local history Society does not undertake family history research we are always looking to expand our knowledge of our history and would be interesed in hearing about families connected with 'THE COTTAGE HOMES' as it was called - you might also just have something about your family.