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Reference: D/X 1460 Catalogue Title: Miscellaneous documents Area: Catalogue Category: Other Records Description: Tursdale Council Mixed and Infant School

Covering Dates: 1913

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Records deposited on long-term loan:

21 October 2004 Acc: 3077(D)

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Tursdale Council Mixed and Infant School (Ref: D/X 1460/1)

A new Council School, erected by Durham County Education Authority, was opened at Tursdale on 13 December 1913. Lady Florence Bell, wife of Sir Hugh Bell, performed the opening ceremony.

The site for the new school was purchased from Messrs. Bell Brothers, of Middlesbrough, Yorkshire, the owners of Tursdale Colliery, for £200, and the building was designed by W. Rushworth, architect to Durham County Council ( see CC/Arch 196-198).

A report of the opening ceremony appears in the Durham County Advertiser, 19 December 1913


Silver gilt key, inscribed 'Durham County Council, presented to Lady Bell on the occasion of her opening the Tursdale Council School, 13 December 1913', made by Rennison, jeweller and silversmith, Bridge Street, Sunderland, 1913
(1 key, boxed)