James Cook grocer and haberdasher William Sanderson. Historians have speculated that this is where Cook first felt the lure of the sea while gazing out of the shop window. After 18 months, not proving suitable for shop work, Cook travelled to the nearby port town of Whitby to be introduced to friends of Sanderson's, John and Henry Walker. The Walkers, who were Quakers, were prominent local ship-owners in the coal trade. Their house is now the Captain Cook Memorial Museum. Cook was taken on as a merchant navy apprentice in their small fleet of vessels, plying coal along the English coast. His
James Cook Boys Technology High School where students will go across to the other school to participate in classes. They have also worked together in Crossroads, a 25-hour personal development and health course for years 11–12 which was a compulsory part of the HSC. James Cook Boys Technology High School James Cook Boys Technology High School is a boys' secondary school situated on Princes Highway in Kogarah, Australia. The school is named after Captain James Cook, the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia. James Cook was founded in 1956 after Moorefield racecourse was demolished. The site of the racecourse was divided to