A HOUSING association is working
The remains of the old King James I Grammar School after fire ravaged the Laurel Building in March, 2007 on the £5.2 million redevelopment of a rundown old school which was once attended by comedy legend Stan Laurel. Railway Housing Association is building 28 affordable homes for rent on the site of the old King James School at Bishop Auckland. This includes the sympathetic restoration of the front of the main Grade II listed building - often referred to as the Laurel Building after the school’s most famous former popular pupil – which was badly damaged in a fire in 2007.