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Schooldays - Gallery 2

Meadowside Infants School 1970s

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

Indoors

Mrs Fenton (formerly Miss Roberts) and pupils
at Meadowside Infants School in about 1971

L-R : Gary Eatock, Mrs Fenton, Sharon Fordham, Jeff Mills, Russ Chamberlain, -?-,
-?-, Kim Humphries, David Maslin, -?-, Jane Pethwick,Paul Bryan, Catherine Patrick,
Lesley Cooper, Philip Moorcroft, Nick Meads, Gary Brudnell, Sally Farmer

Linda Burgin is standing behind the girl with a bow in her hair and her elbow on the desk
who may be named Trudy. Can anyone supply any other names?

Mrs Pearson with schoolchildren —?—, Julie Bucknell, Tracey Thurlow

Can anyone name the boy?

Mrs Williams with –?– (can anyone identify him?) and David Woods

Note on the wall behind her – the list of names with the stars against them.
As this isn’t a coloured photo, we can’t say whether or not the stars are gold ones!

Miss Mary Mason with pupils in the 1970s,can anyone identify the pupils

A classroom scene in the early 1970s

Donna Bellamy has named the nearest table: L-R: ..?, ..?, Lynn Beeby, Julie Bullard,
Donna Bellamy, Donna Hutchings, ..?
At the back in the V-neck jumper is Michael Corrigan, further back is Julie Lane.

Outdoors

The newly opened Meadowside School in 1971.Paul Bryan is the ringed pupil in the picture

Councillor Albert Morby and pupils at a ceremonial planting of a silver birch tree to mark
the Queen’s Silver Jubilee in 1977. Councillor Morby was a School Manager and also Mayor of Kettering

Christmas

The Nativity Play in 1973

The Christmas Play in 1974

The Nativity Play in 1975

Staff

Meadowside Infants School Staff in 1974

Back row : —?—, Joan Griffiths, —?—, Geraldine Hardwick, —?—, Margaret Jackson

Front Row : Mrs Freestone, Mrs Pearson, Miss Sewell (Head), Miss Brown, Mrs Cleaver

Can anyone help with the missing names?

Meadowside Infants School Staff in 1977

Back row : Margaret Jackson, Geraldine Hardwick, Betty Elliot, Jean March, Evelyn Millman,
June Preedy,

Front Row : Joy Croft, Peggy Pearson, Margaret Sewell (Head), Pat Cleaver, Jill Haynes

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