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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 02 February 19 22:16 GMT (UK) »
There's a lot of surviving records from Plessey Road Schools - all housed at Northumberland archives

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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #10 on: Thursday 14 March 19 00:39 GMT (UK) »
I attended Plessey Road in the 60's, still remember the old air raid shelters around the playground, and the internal one that ran the length of the school hall and abutted Forster street. Surprisingly if you get the angle right you can still see the school on Google Earth and the shelter; it being the part of the building with the low roof. 
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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #11 on: Thursday 14 March 19 09:26 GMT (UK) »
Thank you Pete - may I copy your image and forward it to my cousin in Canada? Her father left Blyth in the late 1920's and although she is thinking of coming over on a visit, there is very little remaining of the Blyth that Uncle T would have known. There's St Cuthbert's and St Wilfrid & Our Lady (the family churches and the cause of many rows, lol) but the old family home and the shipyard where one of our other uncles worked all his life are long gone.

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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #12 on: Thursday 14 March 19 16:31 GMT (UK) »
Hi Bobs Lass, please feel free. It is an image I took straight from Google Earth which, as I say if you drop down into street view and get the right spot you can see the school rather than the new home.  If you are on Facebook the "Blyth Remembered" group has quite a few photos of both the junior and infant schools. It is a closed group so you will need to ask to join, then use search function jn the photos to find the school. Cheers
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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #13 on: Thursday 14 March 19 17:06 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: Pete E on Thursday 14 March 19 16:31 GMT (UK)
Hi Bobs Lass, please feel free. It is an image I took straight from Google Earth which, as I say if you drop down into street view and get the right spot you can see the school rather than the new home.  If you are on Facebook the "Blyth Remembered" group has quite a few photos of both the junior and infant schools. It is a closed group so you will need to ask to join, then use search function jn the photos to find the school. Cheers

For a full view See https://goo.gl/maps/pcKJJsDdz5q Image Capture March 2009

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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #14 on: Sunday 17 March 19 10:52 GMT (UK) »
Nice one Stan, your Google Earth skills are clearly much greater than mine :)
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Re: Plessey Road School, Blyth.
« Reply #15 on: Sunday 17 March 19 10:59 GMT (UK) »
Thanks, Pete and Stan.
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