Beamish Board School
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Description
"The school at the Pit Village section of Beamish Museum. A brass plaque http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3634776 inside states: Built 1891. A typical Board School based on the one built by Tanfield School Board at East Stanley - a mining community. It was run by Durham County Education Department from 1902 until it closed in 1985. The school and community grew with the collieries. Families attending the school were involved in the West Stanley Pit Disaster of 1909, when 168 men and boys were lost..... School presented by Durham County Council, dismantled in 1989 and rebuilt 1991-1 with aid from the European Regional Development Fund and Tyne Tees Television." Photo by David P Howard, 2013. -
Owner
David P Howard -
Source
Geograph (Geograph) -
License
What does this mean? Creative Commons License
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Further information
Link: http://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/3702087
Resource type: Image
Added by: Pat Thomson
Last modified: 7 years, 7 months ago
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Picture Taken: 2013-08-28 -
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