Rushden Research Group: Newton Road 1948 & 1955

Newton Road School

A view from Cromwell Road, shows the back gate that the boys used to climb over! It was always kept locked in the 1940s.

Rushden Echo & Argus, 19th March 1948, transcribed by Kay Collins

Pupils see “Their” Play
A party of senior children from the Rushden Newton Road School visited Northampton Repertory Theatre on Thursday afternoon to see “Twelfth Night”, one of Shakespeare’s plays they have studied this last term. The children were under the charge of Mr. J. Bates.

1	David Austin	45
2	Tom Milburne	46	John Collins
3		47	Keith Toby
4		48
5		49
6		50	Rodney Mantle
7	Clive Hammond	51	John Richardson
8	John Milburne	52
9	John Underwood	53
10		54	David Twelvetree
11		55
12	Bob Peacock	56
13		57
14		58
15		59	Dawn Liggins
16	Miss Ruff	60
17		61	Pat Bird
18	Ruth Hodgkins	62
19		63
20		64	Peter Walker
21		65	Eddie Ball
22	Jean Bates	66	David Nichols
23	Susan Glenn	67
24	Maureen Ennis	68
25		69
26	Ivor Stocks	70	Roger Allen
27	David Newell	71	David Stocks
28	Tom Bass	72
29	Roger Miles	73
30	Charlie Browning	74
31	Joyce Annis	75	Jean Rowthorne
32	Sheila Richardson	76	Lois Minney
33		77
34		78	Christine Colson
35		79	Gillian Claridge
36		80	Marj Bridgeford
37	Jackie Austin	81
38		82
39		83
40		84	Maureen Pashler
41	Pat Barnett (Twelftree?)	85	Janet Perkins
42	Christine Chambers	86
43		87
44

1948 - Watching a Punch & Judy Show

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This photograph is dated 1955 and shows the interior of the main hall.

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