Schools, Part II , Blisworth, Northamptonshire, UK.

All pictures are presented at relatively low resolution.    Printed below each image is the photographer's name, if known.

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36-20  Christmas Party in the main hall, 1975

36-27   A junior class group in 1928.  The teacher is Miss Kathleen (Kitty) Hare who was teacher there from 1921 up to the end of 1929.

36-28   Date estimate 1928.  The teacher to the left is Miss Daisy Burt who was teacher from January 1928  to 1955 when she moved to teacher in Duston, where she had lived and commuted from.

Left to right: Back:  Ms Burt, A Whitmore, W Dunkley, R Harris, ?, ?, D Hewitt, F Digby, A Carvel, A Warner.

Middle: ?, ?, ?, Nancy Gulliver, Mary Collins, Arthur French, Paul Fitzhugh, R Clarke, ?, ?

Front: ?, W French, ?, ?, Joyce Gulliver, Joan Hancock, Olive Trusler, Phyl Lack, Irene Allen, Pacey, ?

36-29   Another group dated 1928.  The teacher to the right is Gladys Mary Chapman according to her daughter, Ms. R. Zoro, who contacted the website in July 2012. Miss Chapman began duty on Jan 19th 1925.

36-30   The teacher is headmaster Mr Bailey (Sept 1928 to 1934) - this is the closest dating possible at present.

36-31   Dated from the background at 1928.

36-32   Identification has proved difficult in this picture.  The teacher on the right is Mr Cole (nickname Coley or Boss Cole) who was headmaster from 1934 to 1958.  However he also served as acting head, while Mr Green was ill, for eight months in 1928 and this is the probable date of the picture.  By comparing backgrounds, the same date has been assigned to picture 36-28 above.

36-33   A 1952/3 class.  Names are, left to right, back row - Michael Wright, Tony Newcombe, Glyn Wakeford, Colin Butler.  Boys row, Allan Hillyer, David Hale, John Barden, Roger Tack, Ian Anderson, Mervin Cockerill, John Faulkner, John Donnelly, Malcolm Adams, Ray Painter, ?, Brian Bodsworth.  Girls row, Sheila Judge, Delia Chapman, Maureen Barker, Jean Hickson, Kate Cainy, Pat East, Hazel Newbury, Janet Cowley, Beryl Malin, Valerie Lawson.  Front, George Hepplewhite, Joan Gillet, Ann King, Tony Bass.  As a point of interest, 12 from Blisworth, 9 from Milton, 4 from Gayton, and 2 each from Collingtree and Rothersthorpe.

Picture kindly provided by the Burton family

36-13  School Football Team 1930 according to the date on the ball.  The teacher is headmaster Mr Bailey (1928 to 1934).

36-13a   The award winning sports team of a similar date as in the picture above.  Left to right: Stuart Woolacott, Doug Hewitt, George Perkins, Rupert Harris, Bill Stewart, Mr F W Bailey, middle row: Ray Carter, Eric Harris, ? Pacey, Irene Allen, Stella Harpur, Jos. Curtis, E Pacey, J Hicks, J Marriott, F Digby, seated: Harry Carvell?, ?, ? Monk, Joyce Carter, F Allen, Mary Goodridge, G Harpur, ? Lee, ? Barden.

36-34   School Football Team 1953.

Back;
Barry Hillyard, ?, John Donnelly, Colin Butler, Ian Anderson, John Bardon, Brian (Snowy) Bodsworth.

Front;
David Hale, George Hepplewhite/Hebblewhite, Glyn Wakeford, John Faulkner, Mervin Cockerill

36-34a   School Panto, "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs", Christmas 1958.

Left to right: back, Barbara Brown, Jeanne Faulkner, Lep Carver, John Toms, David ?(behind), Rita Stewart, Liz Burbidge, Valerie Pring, Leonie Pascottie, Barry Sims, Carolyn Young, Ron Painter, Steven Newbury, Stephen Monk, Les Carter, Roger Verriton.

Front seated, Liz Woolacott (Ms. S. White), Bernard Mitchell, Joyce Curtis, Sally Holding.

36-21  Len Piggott (head-teacher 1958 - c.1980) running the School Sports Day, held on the playground, 1963.

36-38   One of Mrs Hockaday's classes, date c. 1895.  The gentleman in front of Mrs Hockaday is probably her husband, head-teacher at the main school in the Stoke Road.   Although Mrs. Hockaday taught at the junior school opposite the main school, the picture appears to have been taken outside the front of the Westley House (see picture 02-06) which was semi-detached to the main  school.  The house was used by the Blisworth Bacon Company after about 1925.

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