Haltwhistle History

an eclectic history of Haltwhistle and the South Tyne Valley by a local lad
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Haltwhistle Church of England Junior school football team 1949 

 

A West End Boy’s Own Story: Growing up in Haltwhistle 1939-60

My own boyhood and adolescence in Haltwhistle’s ‘West End’ until I moved elsewhere post  University in 1961!

 

Fifth form at QEGS in 1956

 

         ‘Hope of Our Sires’ : Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Hexham in the 1950’s                                   (£5.00)    1999

A wry, and hopefully, amusing, recollection of grammar school days (1950-57) by daily school train from Haltwhistle, when age 11 to 18.

 

Queen Elizabeth Grammar School, Hexham. Staff in 1957