Mowden Hall School

Mowden Hall School was founded in the eponymous Mowden Hall in Mowden, near Darlington, by Frank Marchbank in 1935. The School was evacuated to Fallbarrow, Windermere, at the start of World War II, before acquiring its present site at Newton Hall, near Newcastle upon Tyne, in 1945; the former building was home to the Department for Education and its predecessor agencies for almost fifty years. Mowden Hall School became co-ed in 1982, and opened a Pre-Prep Department in 1993, which now includes Pre-Nursery, Nursery, Reception and Years 1 and 2. Work was done in the School's early years at Newton to convert the former home of the Joicey family—built in 1835 by architect John Dobson—into a…