Rushden Echo & Argus, 1st January 1932, transcribed by Kay Collins
Teacher’s Accident - Mr E H Entwistle, who is a teacher at the Rushden Intermediate School had the misfortune to break his leg whilst playing rugby for Rushden against Nuneaton during the holiday. The injury is a compound fracture of the left leg, and Mr Entwistle, whose home is at Long Buckby, has been removed to hospital.
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From the 1935 logbook of the Intermediate School:
French is taken throughout the school, the time given to the subject being in some classes four lessons of 40 minutes each per week and in others only three such lessons. All the teaching, except that of a class of first year girls which is now in the hands of an experienced mistress, is in the hands of a young mistress, appointed last September and still in her probationary year. She holds an Honours Degree in French and speaks the language with good accent and instruction....
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Here she is in 1967
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The ‘young mistress’ is Marjorie Smith, born 1912. In the 1935 school photograph she is the first of the mistresses and is wearing a tie, and is also first in the 1937 lineup. Later she was the Senior Mistress, still Miss Smith, at Hemsworth Grammar School in Yorkshire. She taught from 1947 until her retirement in 1972, and died in 1994. |
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