Blyth History.

[peeem]

Ah but wasn't it always thus? Sad yes, but once we are gone there will always be a tiny few to carry it on. When they are gone the next generation will be saying the same things.
Alternatively, what about the generations who went before us? They didn't have the chance to put on record their thoughts, their stories or their images of the things they thought important. Yet here we are discussing them!
We are, thanks to people like you, keeping our, and because of the age we live in, a few older generations memories alive.
It's all on record, and now thanks to people like you and sites like this the interest will be sparked.
I understand what your saying but not all the history will disappear. There will always be someone!!!   

[TriciaK]

I hope you're right peeem.
I think Christine belongs to the Barracks, a local history group keeping the WW2 experiences of Blyth alive.
And you never know when you're going to find a connection - our eldest daughter teaches at a school in Berkshire and one of her colleagues is the grandson of Mr. Wilson, who was the geography teacher at BGS in my day. He married the Domestic science teacher (can't remember her name, ? Miss Hill?) They had been talking about Blyth for some reason.

[c-side]

Good grieg - Mr. Wilson tried to teach me geography too!

Yes, I am a volunteer at Blyth Battery and Phodgetts has had a hand in some of our research there    I'm also a member of Blyth Local History Society and one of the latest project - research into the lightship which is the headquarters of the Yacht Club.  Did you know that it's the oldest floating lightship of its kind in the country?

Christine

[Phodgetts]

A couple more images showing St Mary's Church Hall, aka National School building as it once was. You can just make out the twin peaked gables on the right.

Permission given by Dave Edwards as per copyright mark.

P

[Phodgetts]

And a little colour version of the rear courtyard of the building taken from Church Street, again passed on by Dave Edwards who believes the original photo was taken by a Mr. Jack Gaff.

I very much doubt we will manage to find any more images of the building after this.

Big thank you to Dave Edwards for sharing from his collection of images.

Enjoy.

P

[emmadog]

I have not looked at this site for absolutely ages (busy doing other things) but have been totally worth ngrossed in this thread. I was born in Blyth and lived ther until 14yrs when we moved away.  Since I have been looking at my family history I realised how little I knew about my "home" town. By finding this site my knowledge has increased enormously and it's all thank to the well informed and very friendly people here.  Once again many many thanks and a very happy new year to all.
Batbara.

[AlisdairGB]

You can make out part of the school in this 1978 view of Bowes Street

[AlisdairGB]

As an aside Ebor House was used by Blyth Town Council until moving to rented premises on the Quayside.

I would have been very surprised that this was a house, as there were no bathroom facilities in the building, nor a kitchen more than a scullery. It was described to us as a former Sunday School by the agents. The building is riddled with damp, and prior to BTC renting it it had been used by a financial advisor ( who went bust, ironically) and a funeral directors.

It isn't listed,** but the Council have it as one of the buildings of architectural and historic interest.

** EDIT   It is listed, separately from the church.

[AlisdairGB]

Sorry ... found another photo of Church Street, with the School just visible on the right.

In the left background is the Zion Methodist church, with the Co-op in the centre background