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Joan Cordiner (nee Lithgo)

My mother's name is Joan Cordiner, nee Lithgo. She lived in Stanmore Grove in Seaton Carew. She was born in 1938 and was a pupil at the Melrose School for girls when this was given to her on VE Day. Melrose School was a private school on The Green in Seaton Carew. It was later combined with the adjoining house next door, once the home of the Fawcus family, and later Jacob Hessler, a Norwegian timber merchant. It became the Harrap and Sterndale girls school. The headmistresses were Misses Harrap and Sterndale. Miss Sterndale was the music teacher in whose name the Sterndale Young Musicians Scholarship was set up, and is still in existence today.

In 1947 my mother became a pupil at Holy Trinity School in Seaton Carew where she was a pupil until 1950 when she then attended Elwick Road School. After she left school, my mother worked in the Co-Operative stores in Station Lane, Seaton Carew, and married my dad John Cordiner, in 1958.

Cliff Cordiner.

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  • Joan Cordiner (nee Lithgo) 1
  • Joan Cordiner (nee Lithgo) 2