Hawkeys Lane, Municipal High School

Architect was J.C. Maxwell of Stanley Street West. Contractor was J.L. Miller of Tynemouth, better known as the builder of St. Mary's Lighthouse. The foundation stone was laid in 1907. It was a school for boys and girls with a 'pupil teachers centre' (where schoolchildren taught colleagues with lower grades whilst continuing with their own learning). It was built to accommodate 400 scholars and pupil teachers, most of whom paid fees for their education. The opening ceremony was on the 8th November 1909 by Alderman Isaac Black who had first raised the scheme in 1894. The school became an adult education centre in 1973 when Norham High School opened. It is now Tynemouth College.