Barrington County Primary

The first Barrington village school was built close to the colliery

Barrington County primary School, replacing the village school, was built in 1913, away from the colliery, close to Rotledge's Buildings.

Information from Evan Martin's The Archive Photographs series - Bedlingtonshire :- "When the new school was opened in 1913, no one was more pleased than headmaster Ben Berkley............... Berkley had taken up the job in Barrington in 1878 and was 21 years old and stayed 44 years.He lived in the village school house until 1905 when he and his family moved to Willow Bridge, where he died in 1932. 

The photograph, added to the map, is from Evan Martin's book