Delving back into history of Harton
Class query ... Harton Hall, once the home of Mayor and Town Clerk, Joseph Mason Moore.
THE stories told by where we live are attracting a new generation of local historians, it’s lovely to learn.
I was thrilled to hear from Year Six children in Holly Class at Bamburgh School in Shields who would love to know more about Harton village in the past, especially in Victorian times.
“We are wondering if you and your readers can help us,” they say.
“We have visited the village and taken lots of photos but we need more information.”
Aspects that they’re interested in include the Old Ship pub and the black stone next to it, and the black and white house on Moor Lane, which is now part of the garage and has a date on it of 1878.
“Has it got a name and why are the windows blocked up?” they ask.
They have been planning to visit the library to look at maps.
“We know that there was once farms around Harton Village and we need more information about this too. When were the houses built on the outside of the village, like Harton House Road and Marsden Road?”
Their teacher, Susan Hopes, says: “I was so pleased with my children’s enthusiasm in this topic.
“All of them pass through the village at least once a week and when we visited, they couldn’t stop posing their own questions and telling me what they had discovered.
“We found the graves, at St Peter’s, of farmer Robert Dryden and his family, who died in 1888 and whose family still lived in the village in 1911.
“The children were fascinated that the area, including our school, was farmland in Victorian times.”
They wonder if any Cookson Country readers have any more information on Robert Dryden and where he farmed.
The children were also fascinated by photographs of Harton Hall, seen here, the home, once upon a time, of Joseph Mason Moore, who became Mayor and, eventually, Town Clerk, of South Shields.
“If readers could help in our research, we would be really pleased,” Susan says.
If you can help, then contact the school on 427 4330 or e-mail her at: shope@bamburgh.s-tyneside.sch.uk
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wasthatthatguy
Friday, January 27, 2012 at 08:20 PMI don't remember seeing Harton Hall in the Harton vicinity and was wondering if it had been knocked down. But have discovered that it now has shops on the ground floor. Posh Wosh etc.
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