Dating from July 1953; the pupils and Miss Norma Clay (Teacher) of the nine year olds class of Upleatham Infant and Junior School, Saltburn assembled for their class photograph. Alan Collins has memories of the schools: “This picture was taken in the courtyard front of the Junior School classes. The Infant School classes were at right angles to the right of this photograph, with a large lawned garden on the other side. This courtyard playground extended to a walled entrance to the left, which had a gate leading to Randolph Street, and opposite the rear of he classrooms facing Upleatham St were some separately built toilets, next to a high perimeter wall. This courtyard was the main playground area, and the infants had the lawned garden area facing south. A shop was on the corner of Lune Street, where we all went to buy sweets. I think it was run by Mr Harrison. In the winter we created a long ice slide down the middle of where there was a drainage channel, where water gathered and iced over in the winter; when we blocked the drain for that purpose. In the summer we used that channel to race our dinky cars.” Alan can identify some people in the photograph; himself (middle of back row), others include: Alan Thompson, Jennifer ?, J. Hayward, Barry Thompson, J. Lince, D. Jones and J. Biscomb. J. Champion has come to the Archives aid with: “My dad Bob Foster is pictured middles row extreme right.”
Back Row : James Lince, Barry Thompson, Tony Pawson, Matt Hancock, Chris Eastwood, David Hill, Adrian Hunter, Garth Rowland, Dave Jones, Doug Pringle, John Biscombe, Robert Procter.
Middle Row : Alan Cook, ? Cheney, Norma Lumsden, ??, ? Brown, ??,??,??,??, ? Sewell, ??, ??, ??, Bob Foster.
Front Row : Jen Atkinson, Margaret Adams, ??, ??, ??, Miss Bartholomew, ??, Julie Green, ??, ??, Freda Boyes.
Seated : Alan Thompson, John Hayward, ??, Alan Collins, Michael Brown, ??
Image and details courtesy of Alan Collins, thanks to J. Champion for the names update.
My dad Bob Foster is pictured middles row extreme right.
Back Row : ??, ??, James Lince, Barry Thompson, Tony Pawson, Matt Hancock, Chris Eastwood, ??, Adrian Hunter, Dave Jones, Doug Pringle, John Biscombe & Robert Procter
Middle Row : Alan Cook, ? Cheney, Norma Lumsden, ??, ? Brown, ??,??,??,??, ? Sewell, ??, ??, ??, Bob Foster
Front Row : Jen Atkinson, Margaret Adams, ??, ??, ??, Miss Bartholomew, ??, Julie Green, ??, ??, Freda Boyes
Seated : Alan Thompson, John Hayward, ??, Alan Collins, Michael Brown, ??
From Roger Arnett
I think this was my form during tenure in Saltburn (1945-60). Cannot find myself or friends David Hill and Garth Rowland., but I do recognize many of the class
The teacher here was Miss Bartholomew. She had a strange mannerism that the children imitated. It was a kind of sucked in tutting noise. Today it might be called a verbal ‘tic’.A lot of the class imitated her out loud. She was a lovely woman, one of my favourite teachers. She found it difficult to control her class and she took all the ribbing in good heart. She was very interested in history. She read a lot about all the british saints to us. I vividly remember one trick the whole class played on her. Everytime she turned to write something on the blackboard the whole class lifted our desks with our knees and move forward a little silently before she turned back to us. She didn’t ‘cotton on’ till we practically had her penned in against the board! She cycled to school every day from Marske and did the same at lunch time in order to see to her mother as I recall. Rumour had it she originally taught at Saltburn High School for Girls.
I am on the back row 6th from the left.
I think Garth Rowland is on the back row 8th from the left