Hi, I went to Yorke House School with my brother between 1960 and 1969. The headmaster was Councillor James Millington who owned the school and lived on site with his wife and daughter Michelle. The teachers at the time that I remember wer Mrs Bristow, Mrs Mather, Mrs Ask or Aske, and a lady who arrived in a vintage Jaguar who was called Mrs Candy and who's daughter als taught at the school for a time, and the couple Mr and Mrs Pepper, the couple who worked as cook and caretaker. I remember pupils such as Robert and Rickie Edwards, Rennie Walker, Richard Aske, Dennine Elliot, Ashley or Ashleigh Mallett, Christopher Bayliss, Stewart Faulkner, Max Reeves, who I played rugby against years later, Geoffrey Burkett, Simon Kingett plus brother Nicholas, and many others who I will remember when not trying. The school struggled on but ran out of money in the year I was due to take my 11 plus so my mother who was a teacher agreed to teach our class for free until the exams where taken and the school was kept going with just one class. I believe the house was a private residence befor becoming a school and was rumoured to have an underground passage to the local church, there was indeed the start of a passage in the cellar under the cloakrooms which was bricked up but may still exist. After it's closure it was sold to a coffee vending company and then demolished and a housing development built which I believe may be age restricted. Perhaps I could start and finish my days there. No one enjoyed their primary school years more than me.
