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Hi Stephen and anyone else who might be interested.
Here are the final two items I have.
The photograph was taken at a farm which I think belonged to one of the Colenutt relatives. I cannot remember much about the few days some pupils spent there (during the summer holiday?) Except for...
Hi Stephen
Many thanks for your reply.
As far as I remember my blazer was blue,I don't remember ever having a green one.
No, I am not the girl stroking the dog but on the opposite side, behind the only boy in the picture. But I did have freckles (all gone now) so what an amazing memory you...
Hi Stephen
Here are another couple of pics, both taken when Mrs Colenutt retired.Susan Jones, if that was her name, is standing directly behind the bouquet and I am peeking out behind her. I think the photograph was taken in the back garden but dont know who took it
I dont suppose you are the...
Hi again Stephen. Thanks for your reply. I am sorry that I do not remember anything about houses or uniforms but I did have for a long time a blazer badge. Don't yet know if I still have it somewhere.
I have hopefully attached (I am not very good at this) a school photograph. I am the little...
Hi, I was a pupil at Guthlac House school on Coleshill Road. Probably between 1954/55 and 1958 ish. Mrs Fletcher/Colenutt closed the school when she and her husband moved to the Isle of Wight and most pupils transferred to another school in Castle Bromwich village. My mother said it was too far...