West Hartlepool Grammar School for Boys

08/03/2026

Rugby XV late 1950s. Back row, fourth from left is teen heart throb Michael Wood.

08/03/2026

Anyone else remember Keith Bloomfield?https://environment.leeds.ac.uk/see/news/article/70/obituary-dr-keith-bloomfield-29-march-1930-2-may-2017

Keith also gave an interesting account to the BBC of the Bede Grove bombing shortly after he started at Brinkburn:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ww2peopleswar/stories/03/a6785003.shtml

It is headed, “Army Cadets in Wonder Camp, Tommy Atkins Junior” and starts “Cheery ...

19/01/2026

July 1970 Durham Schoolboys vs Yorkshire Schoolboys

18/01/2026

https://grokipedia.com/page/peter_evans_musicologist

Peter Evans (1929–2018) was a prominent British musicologist and university professor whose scholarly work focused on the history of Western music, with particular emphasis on Baroque-era compositions, 20th-century British music, and analytical studies of composers such as Benjamin Britten. Born o...

18/01/2026

https://official.sportnetwork.net/main/west-hartlepool--official/s16/st125500/frank-gibbon-1939-2025

Sadly Frank Gibbon, a leading light in West's most succcesful era,  died earlier today after a long illness. Teammate and fellow West Board member Ron Greig pays this  tribute ...

30/08/2025

This one, coutesy of Roger Codner, Hartlepool History. We think it is the WHGS Brinkburn gym?