The two photos on this webpage were taken at the front of Upleatham School, the children facing along the grass strip towards Rifts Woods with their backs to the town library, which at that time was in the school grounds (just out of shot on the left). From the position of the leaves on the tree and the overlap of the chairlegs and the car just visible on the right we can safely say that the two photos were taken on the same day.
The Junior School teachers at this time were: 1A Miss Ridgard, 1B Miss Bowers; 2A Miss Bean, 2B Miss Kiersley; 3A Mr Moss, 3B Mr Langham; 4A Miss Harburn, 4B Mrs Rogers. The headmaster was Mr Scott.
FOURTH (BACK) ROW, left to right:
David French, Andrew Darbyshire, Alan Hood, Richard Wright, Geoff Lynas, Stephen Jarratt, David Thornton, Chris Jarvis, Norman Pictor, Chris Hibbert, Clive Proctor, Godfrey Dowson.
THIRD ROW, left to right:
John Gladders, Anthony Drew, Kathleen Hatfield, Elizabeth Sanderson, Barbara Newman, Geraldine Ball, Lorraine Kirk, Jane Gladders, Barbara Rand, Lorna Stead, Diane Bainbridge, Wendy Slinger, Neil Aston, Paul Sanderson.
SECOND ROW, left to right:
Susan Marvel, Francesca Fox, Laura Chapman, Pat Adams, Eleanor Hutchinson, Frances Burrell, Phillipa Murley, Anne MacDonald, Cheryl Dixon, Barbara Smith, Jane Harrison.
FIRST (FRONT) ROW, left to right:
John Hawkins, Danny Powell, Maurice Lock, John Murray, Robin(?) Stevenson, Kevin Thompson.
Not present: Carol Burgin, John Watson and Rod St Vaughan. In addition, David Wood, Cyril Swann and Gail Worts are not present either, but I've a feeling they may have left the school by then.
Barbara Rand has this picture too, and confirms that it is class 3A. Steve Jarratt says, "This picture would be taken in our first term of 3A because we didn't move the class to the prefab classrooms at the Secondary Modern on the corner of Marske Mill Lane until the year was under way.".
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FOURTH (BACK) ROW, left to right:
Francis Richardson, Gordon Mallory, Robert Thornton, Philip Woodrow, Richard Allan, Damian Mason, Graham Flemons, Robin Hutchinson, Peter Pringle, Paul Lock.
THIRD ROW, left to right:
Ian Colclough, Hilary Brown, Anne Russell, Vivienne Gould, Kathleen Johnson, Lorraine Barker, Ann Jefferson, Anne Drury, Christine Thompson, Alison Shepherd, Felicity Head, Peter Gladders.
SECOND ROW, left to right:
Wanda Gorski, Victoria Nixon, Josephine Clingo, Pamela Williams, Margaret Dack, Patricia Smith, Annette Cutler, Angela Suscens, Carolyn Barber, Valerie Broadbent, June Irving.
FIRST (FRONT) ROW, left to right:
David Girdziusz, Martin Burke, Philip Gibson.
Not present: David Graham
Many thanks to Ian Colclough. When I sent him this photo and challenged him to identify as many as possible, I counselled him not to be too downhearted at the difficulty he was sure to have, bearing in mind the difficulties three of us had had with the 3A picture. He replied a a few days later with every name except one and, furthermore, can remember where they all lived.