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At last, up into the senior school joined by pupils from Ellerby and Staithes this class of 41 children’s first teacher is Mrs Best.
Back row: Lawrence Bibby, Peter Best, Bob Goldby, Linden Lambelle, Michael Mathews, Richard Jackson, Edwin Warrell, Kenneth Greening.
Fourth row: Jimmy Fishlock, Barry Mason, Mavis Tyreman, Mary Young, Jean Johnson, Maureen Pearson, John Thornton, Neil Theaker.
Third row: Ann Wilson, Heather Ironside, Della Burdett, Masie Hewison, Dorothy Rouse, Joy Pledger, Ann Shaw, Ann Kilvington, Audrey Magor, Joan Money, Sheila Mead.
Second row: Dorothy Maudsley, Pauline Cook, Pat Collins, ??, Mrs Best, Gillian Preston, Sheila Cowan, Margaret Steyert, Dorothy Featherstone.
Front row: Brian Grey, William Summerson, Colin Craggs, Terry Blades, Leslie Smith, Clive Cummings.
Only one name to find – who is she?
Taken in 1978 we think, do you know better?
Back row: Mr McKenna, Mrs Barker, Miss Merryweather, Miss Nicholson Steng, Miss Swalwell.
Front row: Mrs. Redding, Mrs Toulson, Mrs Benett, Mrs Blades, Mrs Shail, Mr Beedle.
Image and names courtesy of Marian Toulson.
Back Row: Mrs Spellman (Art), Miss Rivet, Mr Malcolm Gratton (Geography and P.E.), Mr Norman Lee (Science), Mr Maurice ”Zac” Stephenson (English/Technical Drawing), Mr Ward (Science), Miss M Tranter (Girls P.E.), Miss Rita Ward (later Mrs Unthank).
Front Row: Mrs H Nellist (Secretary), Mr John Howard (History), Mrs Best (R.E. and Music), Mr Harold Norminton (Head Teacher), Mr Bert Davy (Deputy Head/Mathematics), Mrs Gornall (Domestic Science), Mr Gornall (Woodwork).
Memories of the staff include; Maurice Dower: “My memories from this group are of happy times. I remember that we christened Mr. Ward as Mr. Fud because of the way he pronounce ‘food’. Mr. Howard had a unique way of teaching history and still recall his tales of ‘Jake Cowhouse of Staithes’. My best memories are of Bert Davy who helped me an awful lot.”; Eric Johnson: “Malcolm Gratton married Joan Foster (girls P.E. teacher)” and Marjorie Magor: “I remember having Mrs Best as my 3rd year form teacher. One day she asked me to the front of the class “I nearly died”’ she enquired as to why my mother was down as next of kin and not my father. I told her my dad had died during the summer holidays. From then on she was so very kind to me and often asked if I wanted to talk about any worries I may have. The point I am making is; some of today’s pupils will have a more complicated “kinship” and having your mother listed as next of kin won’t bring about any queries.”
Thanks to Joan Jemson and Peter Laverick for specialist subjects; also thanks to Maurice Dower, Eric Johnson and Marjorie Magor for those memories.
Sweet and innocent these are the pupils in their last year of Loftus Junior School in 1951.
Back row: Linden Lambelle, Lawrence Bibby, Barry Matson, Michael Mathews, Philip Mortimer, John Thornton, Colin Shaw, Neil Theaker, Jimmy Fishlock, Edwin Warrell, Richard Jackson.
Second row: Pauline Cook, Margaret Vasey, Della Burdett, Masie Hewison, Ann Shaw, Joy Pledger, Joan Money, Gwen Stainthorpe, Dorothy Rouse, Sheila Mead, Marjorie Burnside.
Third row: Joanna Long, Pat Collins, ??, Elizabeth Trowsdale, Audrey Magor, Mary Young, Pat Kidd, Dorothy Maudsley, Margaret Patton, Margaret Steyert.
Front row: Kenneth Greening, Colin Craggs, Clive Cummings, James Peart, Leslie Smith, Bobby Goldby.
Image courtesy of Marian Toulson.
Two for the price of one! The first newspaper cutting shows some of the prefects of Loftus County Modern School with some of the trophies won that year. Geoffrey Spearpoint, Barry Matson, Brenda Miller, Linden Lambelle, Anne Kilvington, John Knaggs, Edwin Warrell, Neil Theaker?, ??, Gillian Preston, Della Burdett, Ivor Swain, Terry Blades, ??, Mavis Tyreman, Jean Johnson, Michael Mathews.
The second cutting shows some of the schools prize winners, too many to name but I am sure if you look hard you will find someone you know or maybe even yourself. Speech day and prize giving was often held in the Regal Cinema, Market Place, Loftus (sadly the Regal has long been demolished, to be replaced by shops and a group of houses which now occupy it’s space). Some of those present are: William Morrish, Eric Lancaster, Joan Money, Peter Dobson, and Tony Walker; perhaps you can add some?
Image from cuttings originally published in The Northern Echo.
Another photograph, dating from 1951 of Class 6.
Back row: Barry Starsmore, Fred Cuthbert, Doug Breckon, Gordon Simpson, Mickey Smith, Jimmy Craggs, Fred Bibby, Edgar Parker, Colin Swalwell, Terry Kentfield, John Mead, Col Foster.
Middle row: Kath Easton, Margaret Morley, Florence Hewison, Mike Knight, Tony Walker, Ken Craggs, Brian Burton, William Morrish, Doreen McEwan, Jean Cuthbert, June Harrison, Sheila Cornforth.
Front row: Jean Dunbar, Jean Sawdon, June Jefferson, Val Smith, Lorna Oglesby, June Lines, Ann Pennock, Norma Liddel, Margaret Cummings, Elsie Hunter.
Image courtesy of Marian Toulson.
The caption under the cutting tells of the occassion, some of the pupils from left to right are: Myra Clark, Terry Grey, ??, Jimmy Fishlock, Della Burdett, Terry Blades, Judith Anne Dobson, and Peter Campbell. Do you know the names opf the remaining pupils? Please tell.
Image courtesy of Della Archer and thanks to Peter Dobson for update on names.
School choir I remember it well, Mrs Garbutt and Miss Trevillion, Whitby Spa singing ’The Cuckoo Is A Pretty Bird’ if I remember rightly, the members of the choir were:-
Back row: Tony Trattles, Michael Grant, Sidney Robson, Brian Hall, Ronnie Knight, Tom Williams, Alan Chester, Ken Johnson, David Hore.
Middle row: Sheila Mead, Gwen Stainthorpe, Joan Money, Ann Dodsworth, Mavis Cuthbert, Pauline Ward, Rita Chadwick, Judith Trowsdale, Dorothy Rouse, Elizabeth Trowsdale.
Front row: Joanna Long, Marjorie Burnside, Susanne Nelson, Joy Pledger, Valerie Watson, Pat Vasey, Marjorie Easton, Dorothy Hodge, Wendy Denton.
Image courtesy of Marian Toulson.
I am guessing that it is the early 50’s and the names I have been given for these pupils are:-
Back row: Alan Scott, Billy Money, Terry Kentfield, Robert Bradley, Mike Jones, Graham Dawson, ??, John Willis, Richard King.
Third row: Elsie hunter, Sheila Roe, Margaret Bannister, Jean Verrill, Barbara Southwick, Barbara Vasey, Maureen body, Florence Hewison, Maureen Jefferson, Mary Theaker, Pauline Ferguson.
Second row: Ann Winspear, Dorothy Johnson, Marjorie Roe, Dorothy Pledger, ??, June Allison, Eileen Benson, Jean Ward, Pat Morrison, Rosamund Lambelle, Ann Starsmore.
Front row: Neil Dale, Roger Hall, Keith Bunney, Ian Smith, Colin Forster, Frank Winspear, Peter Spearpoint.
Any spelling mistakes I apologise for these are the names as they were written on the photograph, do you know the missing ones?
Image and information courtesy of Ian Smith.
No names to this photograph at first, looks as though there may have been a performance of some play or possibly a performance for the Festival Of Britain 1951.
. But what was the performance and who were the performers? Some of them I know, but not many, I am relying on you to fill in the missing names.
Back row: Mike Hoare, Fred Baldwin, Dave Winspear, Robin Bielby, Peter Dobson, John Ditchburn, Eric Johnson, John Nellist, Jenny Blewitt, John Swales, Christopher Williams.
Third row: Bob ward, Mike Grange, Joe Verrill, Margaret Turnbull, Maureen Cook, Rod Evans, Jonathon Clark, John Jefferson, Peter Ellwood.
Second row: Jean Warrell, Jean Shaw, Lorraine Dale, Sheila Spearpoint, Babs Cummings, Veda Todd, Christine Norminton, Shelagh Barwick, Dot Bard, Dot Hill.
Front row: Mike Batchelor, Harvey Walby, Mike Pearson, John Oglesby, Charles Peggs, Ronnie Ward, ??, Ann Wale, Val Jackson, Joyce Green.
Image courtesy of Marian Toulson, thanks for filling in the blanks to Eric Johnson and Mike Hore.
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