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My apologies if you tried to access the site on 29th or 30th August and were unable
to. I discovered that the hosting company had changed the timestamps on all the
files to the same date, which meant the update process couldn't identify which
were new and which where old files.
This
meant that I had to download all 6000+ files, check them and re-upload them to
be sure everything was as it should be. This has now been completed, and all should
now be well - but if you spot any missing pages, please let
me know.
A
reminder that this should be accessed via this entry page as it is liable to move
around the site (to avoid those who wish to trash it). I've taken the opportunity
of the re-upload to remove all other links to it.
With this latest update, there
are now over 400 school photographs online. As time permits, I'm also trying to
improve the quality of those already on the site.
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members of your family, went to the South Shields High School for Boys,
the Westoe Secondary School or Westoe Higher Grade School, South Shields
Grammar-Technical School for Boys, Harton School, or Harton Technology
College (or you're a student or member of staff there today), this site is
for you. The present-day school at Harton started life as the South Shields
Boys' High School in Mowbray Road (founded in 1885) and the Westoe Secondary
School (founded in 1890 as Westoe Higher Grade School, itself founded
in the Ocean Road Schools Arts and Science section in 1887) - they both
combined in 1936 to form the South Shields High School for Boys in a custom-built
building in Harton. In 1953 the name changed to the South Shields Grammar-Technical
School for Boys, and then in 1974 it became Harton Comprehensive. By
the end of the 70s it had become co-educational and became Harton School.
It is now called Harton
Technology College
effectively a co-ed comprehensive with Technology College status. This site
is for anyone who went to or taught at any of these schools, but I also hope that
it will prove useful for those researching their family history (as several genealogists
have already discovered). I was at the school (South Shields Grammar-Technical
School for Boys, hence the dominance of that name on the site) from September
1962 to July 1969, and have very fond memories of my time there (although there
are a few things I'd rather forget). So I decided to put together this site about
the school, from its founding to the present day. It was launched in December
2001, and re-launched with a new design in December 2002 - by June 2003 it had
attracted almost 3 million hits! Almost everything you see has either been
sent to me by Old Boys from the school, or has been taken from the school's archives.
If you have anything at all to offer, whether it's just to
correct or add a name or two to the photos, or if you have old photos that aren't
on the site, old ATOMs, Speech Day programmes or anything else of interest (or
you just want to let me know what you think of the site), please email
me (but please contact me first before sending any material, as you
may be about to send something I already have waiting in the wings). Oh
... and you may recognise the colour scheme for the site as being the school colours
- dark blue, light blue and gold. Mike Todd, August 3rd,
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