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Barbara Buckingham - Reeth...

Barbara Buckingham - Reeth...

Published: 04 October 2021

Emily

News, Story of Schools

I was at Reeth School for the beginning of the Second World War. The war affected our school days very much, in the sense that it interrupted it. The continuity went because we kept getting children and teachers who’d come in from Gateshead...

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Eleanor Scarr - Bainbridge...

Eleanor Scarr - Bainbridge...

Published: 04 October 2021

Emily

News, Story of Schools

I was born at Thornton Rust in 1947. There was no school in Thornton Rust, it shut in about the 1930s, so Bainbridge was our primary school. You went the term that you were five, so for me it would be September because my birthday is in...

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