Newport Road School

Newport Road School was founded in 1884. 6,259 sq yds of land were bought between Victoria St and Greta St. The cost was £2,260--10s –3d . There were 9 classrooms catering for 438 boys, 438 girls and 410 infants. It would seem the school took up most of what was intended to be Annie Street because Middlesbrough’s earliest street plan (1882) shows Annie St as a straight street running parallel between Victoria St and Greta St

Separate Boys and Girls.

Vic Wood
My mother Winifred Fox attended Newport Rd School from 1923 to 1931. In her day, boys and girls were educated quite separately. The girls' school was on the Victoria Road side and the boys' on the Greta Road side. Sometimes boys would climb the high walls into the girls' playground and get caned for doing it. My mother remembers a teacher called Miss Potts and that the teachers were governed by a dress code, Thry had to wear navy blue or black,
All my mother's brothers and sisters attended Newport. Her eldest sister Lillian Fox would have enrolled about 1910 and her youngest brother Edwin Fox would have left in 1934. The next generation of the family broke with this tradition because when it came to my cousin Maureen's time to attend school Newport was full. St Paul's school had been relocated into half of the Newport building after 1941,so she was admitted there. Her brother Thomas followed then me and each of my two sisters. However we were in the same building as that attended by mother, aunts and uncles. My sisters left St Paul's in 1956. So that means a continuous family association with the Newport School's building, between Victoria St and Greta, St for 46 years.

Brenda Taylor (Heritage)

I was born in Carter Street in 1942 and went to Newport School. My mother Mrs Heritage was a dinner nanny at Newport school for over 20 years and the kids were always fascinated watching her knitting socks for my dad on 4 needles, she taught many a girl how to knit.

Enid Goodman (Pattison)

I was born in 1946 in Walker Street as were my 3 sister's and a brother, I went to Newport School, then on to Archibald for senior school, I had some happy times at Newport. I always remember Miss Windross who was my teacher in the infants school, she was always kind to me, and I remember we had little mattresses to sleep on, we always had to take a nap in the afternoon. Mr Haigh was the Head Teacher. I remember he had a thing about Country Dancing. Mr Davies was my favourite teacher in Newport Juniors we had lots of laughs with him, he was very fair with us.

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Reunion 2003

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