At present, we have an ongoing project to research the men of the War Memorial and we are putting our results on the parallel website linked on the left. Can you help? Do you know if you are descended from soldiers on the WWI War Memorial? Do you have any family history research that we can add to our Project? Photographs, census records, addresses, brief family trees etc, will help to expand the record. Many of the less common surnames are familiar to us at Whitby - Bousfield, Percival, Mort, Rochell, Challiner, Shepherd, George, Nixon, Pratt, Slawson, Whitby, Weeks, Woodward, to mention a just few that reoccur through the orgins of the Port to the present day. Several pupils with those surnames are attending Whitby High at present or have passed through during the last 10 years or so.

If pupils wish to help in the research to find out more about the soldiers see Mr M. Royden. Contributions from outside school are most welcome too of course. Again, please contact Mr M Royden through the usual school channels.

Three Whitby pupils are currently working on a short film documenting the origins of Ellesmere Port in the 1790s. Centered on the coming of the canal and the settlement around the dock estate, site visits have already taken place to gather essential material. When completed, it will hopefully be used in the classroom for teaching purposes and may also be available as a download on this site late 2007. Watch this space!