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The Festival Again

Looks as though pupils are gathering in the playground before walking to the field,  I don’t see anyone I know do you? Janet Lingard advises: “I’m third from left and I think the tall girl could be Jean Parkinson”

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, thanks to Janet Lingard for the update.

Loftus Junior School – 1950?

Can hardly imagine these cute boys and girls at Loftus Junior School are all now senior citizens.

Back row: Leslie Smith, ??, John Mitchell, Jimmy Fishlock, Michael Mathews, John Thornton, Colin Shaw, Neil Theaker, Lawrence Bibby, Richard Jackson, James Peart.
Middle row: Margaret Patton, Audrey Magor, Mary Young, Dorothy Maudsley, Margaret Vasey, Dorothy Rouse, Della Burdett, Ann Shaw, Joy Pledger, Joan Money, Sheila Mead, Ann Wilson, Masie Hewison.
Front row: Elizabeth Trowsdale, Janet Atkinson, Pauline Cook, Joanna Long, Dorothy Featherstone, Marjorie Burnside, Pat Collins, Pat Kidd, Gwen Stainthorpe.
Seated front: Linden Lambelle, Barry Matson, Edwin Warrell, Colin Craggs.
Only one name missing does anyone know who it is?

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, names courtesy of Joan Jemson, Della Archer and Eric Johnson.

Loftus Zetland Junior School Football Team 1950-51

Loftus Junior School with a proud football team, must have been a good season! The Archive originally featured this team from a cutting from “Remember When” from the Evening Gazette sent by Michael Cole a former member of the school team. However following a donation from Marian Toulson we can now display the team properly. Members are:

Back row:  Thomas Cummings, Derek Arden, Ronnie Knight, Sidney Robson, Peter Campbell,  Ken Johnson, Michael Cornforth, Brian Cole.

Seated:  Brian Hall,  Reg Wilson,  Michael Grant, Tony Trattles (Captain), Alan Chester, Harry Jopling, Mr Richardson.

Were you at the school when Mr Richardson came?  The first male teacher we had come into contact  with; he set girls hearts a flutter! John Richardson tells us: ”Mr. Richardson was my uncle Dennis, I remember my Gran saying that he was much sought after by the local young ladies. Eventually he married my auntie Ruth Nellist of Brotton. In the early 1960s he took over as headmaster at Gilling West, near Richmond, and finally moved on to Stillington near York, where he retired from teaching.”

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, thanks to Mike Richardson, Billy Parkin and Mike Hore for the missing names; also to John Richardson for the update.

Eskdale Tournament of Song – 1953/4

Loftus (Zetland) Junior choir at the Eskdale Tournament of Song in 1953/4.

Back row:  Dorothy Harmer, Kathleen Ellerker, Sandra Husband, Eric Lancaster, Robert Bradley, Norma Grainger, Maureen Jefferson, Ruth Simpson, Carol Goodwill

Second row:  Judy Mead, Christopher Williams, Brian Richardson, Heather Woodall, Hazel Laverick

Third row:  Rosemary Stonehouse, Margaret Theaker, Pauline Ferguson, Margaret Carver, Ann Winspear, Dianne Dunwell,  Dorothy Pledger(?)

Front row:  Mr Godfrey, Valerie Tate, Doreen Warrell(?), Frances Smithies, Dorothy Johnson, Eileen Benson, Jean Sawdon, Joan Craggs, Miss Currie.

Image courtesy of Margaret Urban (from a Doran of Whitby photograph).

Back To The 1940′s Again.

Back row:  Herbert Pearson, Peter ‘Rusty’ Rowe, John Starsmore, Richard Rouse, Mike Bowers, Les Walker,  Brian Cole, Terry Lofthouse, Ray Pascoe, Brian Hodgson, Dennis Morrison.

Third row: Michael Laverick,  Alan Nicholson, Margaret Winspear, Rosalie Coultis, Rita Chadwick,  Hilary Robinson, Jean Pearson, Pauline Mann, June Cuthbert, Barry Crooks, John Knaggs.

Second row: Hazel Boddy, Margaret Coultas, June Watson, Shirley Atkinson, Doreen Ward, Pat Wodge, Wendy Coxon, ??,  Shiela Cook.

Front row: Terry Ellison, ??,  Geoff Hedge,  Geoffrey Hebditch, Anthony Purver, Richard Lythe, ??,  Norman Peart, David Watson.

Image and names courtesy of Hazel Collinson, thanks to Keith Smith for the update.

A Blast From The Past

Yes we’re back in the 1940’s again at the junior school which is now the Community Centre in Duncan Place; some of the pupils are named, but can you recognise anyone?

Back row: Colin Watson, Brian Hall, Ernest Mead, Ronnie Knight, Gordon Robinson,  Harry Jobling, Peter Campbell, ??, ??, Michael Grant, Billy Parkin.

Third row:  Eric Laverick, Tom Williams, Kathleen Oglesby, ??, Pat Vasey, Pauline Mann, Ann Dodsworth, Mavis Cuthbert, Janet Theaker, Valerie Shaw, Maureen Ebbs, ?-Audrey?, Sydney Robson, Geoffrey Spearpoint.

Second row: Wendy Denton, Susanne Nelson, Judy Trowsdale,  Audrey Robinson, Eileen Robinson, Barbara Craggs, Sheila Wren, Marjorie Easton, Jean Shaw, Kenny Johnson.

Front row (kneeling) David Hore; (seated) Derick Arden, Tom Cummings, Derick Armstrong, Tony Trattles, Brian Lawson, Bobby Morrison, John Turnbull, Alan Chester, Reg Wilson.

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, thanks to Mike Hore and Audrey Hadfield (Robinson) for more names, also to John Keelty for the update.

The Class of Mrs Elsie Dixon

Help definitely needed here; we now know the teacher is Mrs Elsie Dixon, the year would be in the 1940’s.
Back row: Mrs Elsie Dixon, ??, Hughie McAuley, Peter Dobson, ??, Mike Smith, ??, ??, ??, ??.

Middle row .  ??, ??, Terry Blades, ??, ??, ??, ??, Terry Grey, Maureen Verrill, Bobby Barber, ??, ??.

Front row.  ??, ??, Sheila Cowan, ??, ??, Lily Duck, ??, ??, Dorothy Garbutt,

Boys seated at front: ??, ??, ??.

Thanks to Norman Patton, Derick Pearson, Margaret Jackson and Margaret Atkinson for names to date.

Loftus Junior School

Another poser? It is known to be Loftus Junior School (recognised from the background!) but the rest is a mystery, date (possibly late 1940s or early 1950s), teacher and pupils all remain unknown. Can anybody help out there?

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson.

Loftus Junior School 1946/47

Back row: Derek Walker, Colin Morgan, Raymond Robinson , Keith Barratt, Malcolm Libby, Derek Gale, Billy Dunning, Leslie Brittain, Peter Robinson, Gerald Verrill, Mrs Ruth Hun (teacher).

Third row: Derek/George ?, Brian Ditchburn, Joan Smith, Shirley Pressick, Rita Ward, Shirley Newton, Joan Sunley, Jean Jones, Thelma Mintoft, Terry Baines, John Craggs.

Second row: Shirley Snow, Edith Stephenson, Leonora Hicks, Jean Ashton, Audrey Hoggart, Yvonne Charlton, Daisy Morrish, Shirley Treloar, William Warrell.

Front row: Norman Tindall, George Locker.

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, thanks to Marion Burnside and Barbara McBurney of assistance with names.

Loftus Junior School, 1977

Loftus Junior School, 1977

Back Row: Miss J Long, Anthony Pearson, Graham Smith, Jason Fraser, Ian Harrison, Trevor Smith, Jill Kitchener, David Rodgers.

Third Row: Samantha Wheatley, Pamela Cotterill, Amanda Jopling, Ingrid McLeod, Jill Goldby, Christine Ricks, Lynn Drinkhall, Christine Shaw.

Second Row: Paul Bland, Peter Everington, Graham Morrison, Kevin Norris, Haydn Duffty, Phillip Stone, Dale Sissons, Nigel Hayes.

Front Row: Alan Pearson, David Barber, Brian Ward, Joyce Nicholson, Sonia Coaten, Andrea Glover, Keith Winspear, Paul Armstrong.

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson and thanks to Haydn Duffty for the update.