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Loftus – Harry Dack Infant School – 1973

The staff of 1973; with back row from left to right: Mrs Burnside, Mrs Wilson, Mrs Catherall, Mrs Byrne, Mrs Hitchen.

Front row: Mrs Robinson, Miss Sibley, Miss Jordan (Headmistress), Mrs Maughan, Mrs Jemson.

Image courtesy of Joan Jemson.

“Dinner Ladies” – Harry Dack Infant School – 1972

Not quite the same as the television programme, but sometimes just as funny; and the ladies were:

Back row: Eileen Hicks, Maggie Marley, Joan Jemson, Pam Morrison.

Front row: Dorothy Winspear, Betty Goodwill, Bertha Founds, Ann Davies, Gwen Husband.

Image courtesy of Joan Jemson.

Loftus – Harry Dack Infant School – 1973

Mrs Yeoman with a group of her pupils in 1973.

Back row: Bernadette Grayson, Debbie Barwick, Louise Dunn, Alison Cockerill, Katya Williams, Jacqueline Robinson, Sharon Main, Tessa Bainbridge, Caroline Tilley.
Third row: Phillip Preston, Debbie Covell, Karl Jemson, Cheryl Smith, Craig Smithies, Elizabeth ?, Conrad Heward, Kath Simpson, Vincent Dodds.
Second row: Elaine Garbutt, Michelle Ainsley, Vanessa Blood, Paula Toulson, Paul Lings, Richard Willis, Mark Jones, Andrew Walshaw, Amanda Evanstone.
Front fow: Richard Muir, Mark Byers, Andrew Simpson, Simon Lodge, Paul Morse, Mark Harrison, Darren Watson, Clive Pearson.
Image and names courtesy of Joan Jemson; thanks to Caroline Tilley for the update, but help is needed to name the remaining pupil.

Loftus Junior School – 1977-78

Loftus Junior School - 1977-78

Mr. Foster was the teacher here and this was the final year for the pupils before going to Rosecroft School.

Back row: Stuart Housam, Karl Jemson, Andrew Penney, Darren Watson, Paula Snowdon, Kath Simpson, Bernadette Grayson, Andrea Gorman, Kerry Taylor, Dale Gordon.

Middle row: Sean Mellor, Paul Mann, Simon Lodge, Andrew Walshaw, Wayne Boyes, Mark Byers, Akelda Barber, Kerry Robinson, Cheryl Smith, Kath Teesdale.

Front row: Gillian Clarke, Susan Jones, Sue Pearson, Michelle Easton, Kevin McConnell, Michael Radford, Andrew Tabner, Sean Thomas, Michael Breckon.

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson  and thanks to Andrew Penny for the update.

Loftus Junior School – 197?

A group of pupils with their teacher outside the school in the 1970’s

Back row (left to right): Mr Stewart, ??, Andrew Walshaw, Karl Jemson, Paul Ditchburn, Mark Jones, Dean Gibson, Kevin Walker, Mark Hanson.
Third row: Cheryl Smith, Michelle Hart, Louise Parker, Anne Brundle, Kaelie Polano, Michelle Easton, Angela Spinks, Katya Williams.
 Second row: Jonathan Sanderson, Paula Toulson, Tessa Bainbridge, Louise Dunn, Lorna Richardson, Amanda Hall, Susan Jones, Jacqueline Robinson, Andrew Tabner.
Front row: Simon Lodge, Paul Garbutt, Darren Watson, Russell Hart.
Do you recognise yourself please help us fill in the rest of the names.

Image courtesy of Marian Toulson and thanks to Debbie Shaw for the update.

Loftus British Legion Men’s Day Out

Loftus British Legion Social Club, in the 1970s, on Grosmont station waiting to board the train to travel to Filey for an outing which included lunch. The annual trip involved a coach trip from Loftus to NYMR at Grosmont, travel to Pickering and then coach trip to their lunch, etc.

Left to right: Bob Todd, Fred Wilson, Percy Temple, Alf Burnside, Dan Laity, Jack Drew, Charlie Watson, Bob Carter, Ted Money, Jonty Smith, Ray Stevenson, Alex Kuczewski, Lewis Wildmore, Tim Lines, Alan Patton, Dick Steyert, Andy Armstrong, Frank Binks, ??.

Image courtesy of Joan Jemson and thank to David Archer; only one left to name does anyone know?

Zetland Road

A quiet sunny day in Loftus, the awnings are down to protect the shop windows from the sun. A more modern view, but not a lot of people out shopping and not much traffic.

Zetland Road

I wouldn’t try standing around in Zetland Road like this today. I wonder – are the men selling the horse?

Image courtesy of Joan Jemson.

Zetland Road

Once again a nice crisp image of Zetland Road from the end of West Road. Interestingly the present day derelict Congregational Chapel has not been erected, so dates this image as pre 1906. This view is again taken from the ”Cooke’s Views of Loftus and District”.

Image courtesy of John G. Hannah.

Temperance Hall, Loftus

This view of the Temperance Hall on West Road in Loftus comes from the ”Cooke’s Views of Loftus and District”. The Temperance Movement was an attempt to stop the decline in the morals and christian behaviour of the British worker. It had a strong following among the employers, who were losing work-days through drunkenness and unruly behaviour. They built this fine building in Loftus to further their aims. It was also ”friendly” society; where, for a weekly subscription, the members were insured against illness and hard times. Today the building is the ”Dole Office” building or more properly The Department of Works and Pensions (DWP). Eric Johnson tells us: ”The dedication stone for the Temperance Hall is weathering and becoming illegible, I can make out the following inscription, but some of the letters and numbers may not be correct, or missing.
m – laid by s ?
v (or w) lapsley marske
on behalf of ??
plant of renown lodge
1283 ? I.O.G.T. june 11 1877”. ”The letters: I.O.G.T. stand for the INDEPENDENT ORDER of GOOD TEMPLARS. established in America about 1852 to combat the evils of drunkenness and abuse. with a structure similar to the Freemasons, with rituals, regalia, songs, and password to gain admittance. the order was started in England in 1868 in Birmingham, and eventually throughout the world. The order is still very much in existence.”

Image courtesy of John G. Hannah.