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Some Photographs we have copied

Moor Road School Class IB c1920

Moor Road School Class IIB c1920 Centre back row is Harold Clayton

Moor Road School picture 1922

This was sent to the Evening Telegraph in 1988, by Mrs. Whitworth who said
she was in the front row, far right.
The boy ringed at the back is Gordon Meadows.

c1923 class at Moor Road School

1923 Class IIa

Back row: ?, - Willmott, ?, - Bates, ?, Ethel Jones, ?, ?, ?.
2nd row: ?, Fred Neal, Sid Brawn, Jack ?, Allen Allebone, David Livingstone, Blanch Chettle, ?.
Front row: ?, ?, ?, Jesse Hilson, Percy Taylor, ?, ?, Ron Bazeley, M Clarke, Ethel Jones.
The caption came with the photo but one name may be wrong ... Or are there two girls with
the same name? … Or which girl is Ethel Jones? If you know, please let us know.

Extract from Memories of the 1890s by R E Bayes
From his school days, which began at Moor Road Infants, Mr. Bayes recalls Walter Wood, the quiet and patient gentleman who was his headmaster at Alfred Street; George Capon, his favourite teacher there; and Watson his favourite instructor at Newton Road School.

The first headmaster at Newton Road “had tremendous energy, a Welsh name, and an unshakable confidence in the efficacy of corporal punishment. He was not without certain resemblances to Squeers of “Dotheboys Hall.”

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