Alan Edgar (Eggy1948)

@Bill Straughan your names added + a few more from the Facebook groups.

@carly I have checked all the school photos that we have for the Village school, Church Lane and the Whitley Memorial school, Vulcan Place and I would agree with @Canny lass that our best guess would be your great granda went to the Whitley Memorial. The 1897 map that @James has posted showing the other school closest to Coach road and the info from the St. Cuthbert's church history booklet is backed up by info on the East End of Bedlington in a booklet 'Bedlingtonshire Villages History Series - Bedlington' by Stephen B. Martin. The info in that booklet saying it was a 'Private School' built c1850 ran by a Mr Whittle I would think the info from 'carly' rules out the possibility that her great granda would have attended that school. But there again, at my age (21), my logic, according to the wife, is often wrong

@Canny lass & @carly - I had totally forgotten about the Whitley memorial school in Vulcan Place - must be me age. Carly - this is a link to the Whitley Memorial school album :-

@carly - I wasn't sure about the Village School being the school your great granda went to as there was a school closer to where he lived. did a bit more checking and I had forgot about an article in a local mans book on Bedlington that has some info on the East End of the town. This is an extract from Stephen Martin's book and says that the school @James identified as a possibility in his 1897 map extract was a private school :- This combined image shows the current area with 2 old images + the 1897 map extract :- This image shows the quickest route your great granda would have been able to take to the Village/St Cuthbert's school :- This is the earliest photo we have of the Village school :- This 1896 map extract shows the area around the river Blyth that your great granda would have to to play in :- I have joined the 1896 map with the current Google aerial view of the area :- Hope that helps. In the 'Gallery' section under 'Historical Bedlington' we keep an album of all the previous and current schools. This is a direct link to what is currently held in the Bedlington Village School' album :-

@carlyI haven't heard the Village school referred to as 'Vulcan School' but that school was a less than 50 yards/meters from Vulcan Place = across the road from the school. Can't find a Coach Row but did find a Coach Road on an old map and it was down the East End Front Street, in the Hollymount area, of Bedlington just a few hundred yards from the school. I'll have a bit more look around this evening and let you see what I find, probably sometime tomorrow. @Canny lass have you come across a Coach Row when you have been researching the area?

@carly I'll see if i can find Coach Row on any of the old maps and if I can find it it should give us a clue to what school they went to.

@carly - we don't have any school photos from the 'late 1800s' and I can't find a photo with brickwork that completely matches the brickwork in your photo. I have only ever found three schools that were in the area in the 1800's. They are :- 1. The Village school, opened 1874, on Church Lane Bedlington (flats now built on the land) 2. Bedlington station Colliery school. Don't know when it was built but it is identified on on and 1859 OS map. This area used to be named Sleekburn but changed it's name to Bedlington Station after the Bedlington railway station was built in Sleekburn. 3. On an 1896 OS map a school is identified in Bell's Place in Bedlington. Unfortunately no image of this school have ever been posed on any of the local groups. This is a compilation of your photo + Bedlington Village School photo + Bedlington Station Colliery school photo :- This is the only reference, 1896 map, to the school in Bell's Place + a Goole Street view of the area now - Bedlington's East End area :- I would guess you are researching your family. Do you have any info on where they lived in Bedlington?

@carly - I keep a copy of all the school photos where the names have been added so I will have a scan through them all and see if I can find a photo with a similar background. I will let you know weather I find a match or not but I don't recognize it.

@oldtimer I've redone the names and switched the stars to match your comment . Checking back on the original hand written set of names etc that was posted with the original photo that would mean that the two Muter sisters were cousins of Mrs Johnstone.

@oldtimer welcome to the site 'oldtimer'. names updated👍

Photo and names from Cambois FB member Donald Marshall & 'End of Term...' info from Ann Johnston.

Keith Ballance, Bygone Bedlington FB group, thinks No 14 might be Mary Donohoe.