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South End Junior School
1950s
On the river at the Festival of Britain in 1951
Click here to read about the Newton Road School Trip to the exhibition

We have been sent duplicate copies of this picture - dated c1951
or 1954/5. Please can anyone confirm?
1951 class
South End Juniors c1951
Caption passed to us by Robert Freeman with additions from David Carr

The teacher left is Mr Clark and headmaster Mr Astle is far right

Back row: Colin Green, Michael Cox, ?, Mary Smith, Ian Crowdy, ?, Brian Robinson, David Colson,
Carl Warren, Dave Hart.

2nd row: ?, John Dilley, Paul Tompkins, Roger Alderman, Robert Clarke, ?, Roy Tew, ?, ?.

3rd row: Diane Denton, ?, - Coggins, Pat Richardson, Christine White, ?, Carol Sawford,
?, ?, - Blackwell.

4th row: ?, Jeanette Corbett, Janet Reynolds, Teresa Killick, Elizabeth Bates, ?, ?, Janet Butcher, ?, Carol Burgess, Virginia Sackett.

Front row: Chris Whitwell, Robert Freeman, Richard Parkinson, Paul Robinson.

Note: From Margaret Goodwin - might have been taken on Empire Day as many girls are wearing
their Brownie uniforms, & we celebrated the day by wearing uniforms at Alfred St. School.


South End 1954

Taken in May 1954. Some names Barb Burns (Australia) remembers.

Back row : 2nd girl’s name: Kathleen ?

3rd row : 4th girl’s name: Judith ?

Middle row : 2nd girl is Barbara , 6th girl Melanie Wiggins

1954

South End 1954
1955
1954/5

4th row: Mr  Clark, ?, ?, Paul Tompkins, Roger Alderman, Robert Clark, ?, Roy Tew,
Robert Butcher, Stuart Ingram, Mr. Astle

3rd row: Paula Nunley, Cheryl Brown, Jean Cockings, Pat Richardson, Christine White,
Susan Jacques, Carol Sawford, Jill Collins, Jennifer Harris, Veronica Blackwell

2nd row: Neil Godfrey, ?, Nigel Allen, Jeannette Corbette, Janet Reynolds, ?, Liz Corishley, ?,
Christine Fuller, Janet Butcher, Diane Denton, Virginia Sackett

Front row: ?, Barry Scholes, Colin Clarke, Willis, Jeff Nunley, Paul Crowdy, ?


South End
South End 1955

1955

Back row (l to r): Susan Barringham, Kathleen Randall, ?, ?, Terence Chapman, ?, David Wilson, Jean Holland, ?

2nd row: Mr Astle, ?, John Hales, ?, Phillip Swingler, John Eaton, ?, ?, Norman Tilley, ?, Mr Harley

3rd row: ?, ?, Beatrice Astle, Judith Crane, ?, ?, ?, Jennifer Taylor, Jill Folder, ?

4th row: ? Abrahams, Barbara Parnell, Mary Waller, Susan Dilley, Diane Cherry, Melanie Wiggins, ?, Diane Partridge, ?, Christine Burgess, Ann Chettle

Front row: Rosemary Watkins, Keith Shearer, Andrew Hunt, ?, ? Abrahams

Kindly named by Anne Smith (nee Chettle)

1956
1956
Caption from Stuart and Ellen Godfrey (nee Willmott), additions from Norman Tilley

Back row: Richard Marks, Richard Dickens, Norman Tilley, Robert Bachelor, Terry Chapman,
Clive Moss, John Eaton, John Hales, Alan Smith, ?, Mr Harley

3rd row: ?, ?, ?, Katherine Randle, ?, ?, Valerie Ainge, Susan Barringham, ?, Jean Bennet, Susan Dilley

2nd row: ?, Gillian Burgess, Barbara Parnell, Diane Partridge, Beatrice Astle (Mr Astle's daughter),
Judith Crane, Anne Chettle, Jill Folder, Diana Cherry, ?, Joy Abrahams, ?, ?

Front row: Michael Abrahams, ? Myers, John Bloor, ?, Stuart Godfrey, John Clark,
Trevor Warhurst, Andrew Hunt

Please contact us if you can fill in any names.

The whole of South End County Primary School in 1958 Sent in by Bob Green
left to right: Back row No.18. is my sister Pauline Hazel Green (10) and somewhere in the front row is me Robert Stephen Green (7)
The boy seated just above the "c.p." in the caption is Scott Williamson.

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