Sixty years have passed since a new Sunderland school was developed on farmland - and it had an interesting history before it even opened. 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 be educated there. But a meeting of the Education Committee that... Read this story
