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It’s 60 years and counting for a Sunderland school which has had changes of names but is still going strong.
Thornhill Comprehensive School was built in 1964 and it was meant to be a replacement for the existing West Park Technical School for Girls. It was built on a site which was once Thornhill Farm.
The cost of the new school’s construction was £750,000 and it was planned that 1,920 girls would get an education there but a meeting of the Education Committee that same year came up with a different plan.
It was decided that it should be a mixed school for the same number of pupils and a 60-year history began when the school opened in 1966.
We have photos from the days of construction onwards but it is your memories of the school that we want and you can share them by emailing [email protected]
9. On display in 1967
Members of the seventh form were looking at a display stand showing the findings of a survey they held to discover what facilities were available to disabled people in the town. | Sunderland Echo
10. A 1967 school line-up
A line-up of some of the pupils at the school in a Sunderland Echo archive photo from 1967. | se
11. Taking shape in 1964
Thornhill Comprehensive School taking shape on the site of the former Thornhill Farm in April 1964. The school was being built partly as a replacement for the existing West Park Technical School for Girls. | se