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Schooldays - Gallery 10

Council Junior School : 1940s

This page is the tenth of a series, showing school scenes captured on camera over the years.

School Pals

Alf Messenger & Friends – 1945

Probably the sort of memento we all wish we had …. Alf Messenger and some of his friends from
his schooldays in 1945 – Jean Bulley, Pearl Bulley, Maurice Desborough & Cyril Desborough

 

Faces of 1947 – the following are all said to date from that year

Nicholas Crocker

Olive Timpson ?

Malcolm Smalley

Tim Groome

Janet York

Paul Vilette

Ruth Smith

Marlene Johnson

Harold Loake

Jennifer Cooper

In Class

Classroom Scene – late 1940s

Front Row: 1. —?—, 2. Gaye Robertson, 3. Marlene Johnson, 4. Pam Hawkins, 5. Dorothy Ramsbottom
Second Row: 6. Janet York, 7. Betty Partridge, 8. Margaret Strudwick, 9. Sadie Williamson
Third Row: 10. Sylvia Whieman, 11. Patsy Loak, 12. Janet Northern, 13. Rita Butlin, 14. Joan Bray
Back Row: 15. Brenda Roberts, 16. —?—, 17. Sidney Coleman, 18. Harold Loak

Playground Poses

Playground Group 1949

Back Row: 1. Ernie Vincent, 2. Peter Watson, 3. Geoffrey Palmer, 4. David Jones
Middle Row: 1. Brian Freestone, 2. Alan Evans, 3. Ted Phipps, 4. Terry White
Front Row: 1. Ray Birnie, 2. Jimmy Christian, 3. Tony Elliott, 4. Alan Evans,

Hold that pose!
(The photographer must have been on the roof of the air-raid shelter for this one from the late 1940s!)

A nostalgic reminder of the days when P.E. really did mean Physical Exercise – outside – in most weather
conditions – on the playground tarmac – wearing (for the most part) no special gym kit …

First column (left) front to back: 1. Pat Evans, 2. John Smith, 3. Ernie Vincent, 4. Ray Burney,
5. Frank Bayman, 6. —?—, 7. —?—, 8, —?—, 9. —?—, 10. —?—
Second column, front to back: 1. —?—, 2. Nigel Warner, 3. Sam Love, 4. Brian Freestone,
5. Eric Mason, 6. —?—, 7. Brian Northern, 8. —?—, 9. —?—
Third column, front to back: 1. —?—, 2. Geoff Hayward, 3. —?—, 4. Tony Palmer, 5. —?—
6. Keith Clifton, 7. —?—, 8. —?—, 9. —?—, 10. —?—
Forth column, front to back: 1. —?—, 2. John Evans, 3. —?—, 4. —?—, 5. —?—
6. Christopher Tailby, 7. Pete Clipson, 8. —?—, 9. Roy Anderson, 10. —?—

School Play

“Nicholas Nickleby” 1949

The Cast in costume

Back Row: 1. Brian Freestone, 2. David Jones, 3. Margaret Cope, 4. Raymond Phipp,
5. Jean Hull, 6. Peter Watson
Front Row: 1. Terry White, 2. Ted Phipps, 3. Marlene Johnson, 4. Alan Evans, 5. Ray Birnie

“The Beggars’ Opera” 1949-50

Mr Cable and the girls in the production

Standing: Shirley Buckby, Sheila Moisey, Peggy Blandford, —?—, Brenda Roberts, Gay Robertson,
Dorothy Ramsbottom, Mr Cable, Patsy Loak, Joan Bray, Doreen Walker, Betty Chapman, —?—,
Joan Morgan, Margaret Strudwick
Sitting: Pauline Hawkins, Jean Twelvetree, June Coleman, Jean Austin, Shirley Eady

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