Allendale Town - February 1984

Allendale School. Opened in April 1880 as Allendale Board School – with separate girls and boys facilities. Its first headmaster was Emerson Peart.

The Board School was attended by the younger children whilst the older ones remained at Brides Hill School, built by Mr Beaumont in 1851. When Brides Hill closed in 1887, the senior pupils were then transferred to the Board School – where an extension had been added – and this continued to provide tuition for local pupils up to the school leaving age of 14 until the reforms of the Education Act in 1944. It then became a primary school and subsequently a ‘first’ school under Northumberland County Council.

The building ceased being a school in 2018 when NCC reverted to a dual tier system.  The primary school relocated to the nearby vacated modern Middle School buildings.

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