(20 Aug 2014, 4:55 pm)Marcus Thought it was something like that. 
My dad started when Park View took over the North Lodge site from Birtley South Modern (who later became Lord Lawson) in 1976, so it would have been Park View Comprehensive when he went.
Up there with Cooks Hall! 40 years since the site had the name...
The Curly Wurly Bridge has been up years on Fallowfield Way and that hasn't had a stop named after it.
Maybe it needs knocking down!
Aye, Lord Lawson replaced/combined Birtley South and Birtley East as secondary schools when the county borders changed - if I remember right.
Birtley South took on the Co Durham pupils (changing its name), with those living in Tyne & Wear going to Lord Lawson - although there was the odd exception.
A lot from Barley Mow went to Park View still, rather than Lord Lawson.
'Illegitimis non carborundum'
