1958ish to 1965 Memories of....View attachment 116960 This class photograph is from 1960 or thereabouts.
No i can't remember what brand of crisps we sold, too busy snaffling the chocolate digestives.
A perk of the job you understand and requiring some early creative accounting
No i can't remember what brand of crisps we sold, too busy snaffling the chocolate digestives.
A perk of the job you understand and requiring some early creative accounting
I seem to recognise a few faces on this photo. Backrow: 2nd from left David Gray next to him Anton Rapps, the next four I can't remember, then I think Tony Orton and far right Robert Scholar. The only other one I recognise is in between Mr Bates and Mr Barlow and that's Roy Tinkler.Found a nice photograph of the school football team 1958/9 season.View attachment 115147
The only face I know for sure is the teacher Mr Whiting. The lad on the left, 2nd row down, is that Donald Sullivan?View attachment 116960 This class photograph is from 1960 or thereabouts.
Did David Gray have a younger brother as I was in the same reception class in infants as John Gray. Ps any typos are due to fact am trying to type on phone on train!I seem to recognise a few faces on this photo. Backrow: 2nd from left David Gray next to him Anton Rapps, the next four I can't remember, then I think Tony Orton and far right Robert Scholar. The only other one I recognise is in between Mr Bates and Mr Barlow and that's Roy Tinkler.
The outside photo looks like it was taken outside the class room used by Mr Bates. I liked him. Coached us for footbsll but I was useless. Remember him making us learn and recite poetry and making accentuted pronunciations. Sent us home one Friday with two poems to learn - Snow and Darius the Mede. The last one was quite a long poem but for some reason my sheet only had Snow printed on it. I didn't say anything as it meant I could only learn one. When we came back into school we were asked to recite in a group and he randomly selected individuals to take solo turns. Fortunately I never got picked and happily mimes my way through DariusI have dug out a few pictures taken at the Coronation celebrations held at Mapledene in 1953. I can't remember whether I had started in the infants school then.
The first one is of the fancy dress competition. I'm the little lad on the right of the picture dressed, so I've been told, as Huckleberry Finn. (At that age I wouldn't have had a clue who he was) The lady at the back is my auntie who's carrying my younger sister. The girl dressed as the queen of hearts was called Barbara Jones who lived in the last house in Mapledene Rd. The boy dressed as the clown is I think one of the Woakes brothers but I don't know which one.
The next two show one of the classrooms decked out for our coronation tea and us ravenous kids demolishing all the food in front of us. Sadly I don't recognise anyone there.
The last one shows the judges of the fancy dress. My Nan is there but I still didn't win