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The Rushden Echo and Argus, 7th March, 1930, transcribed by Gill Hollis.
A postal order for Five Shillings goes to Mrs. F. Perkins, 9, Harborough Road, Rushden, who writes in reference to the above picture.
The photograph in last Friday’s “Echo & Argus” was taken at the South End School about 32 years ago. The teachers were Miss Swan and Miss Glover. Others on the group are:- Frank Pratt, living away; Fred Bull, abroad; Fred Short, Rushden; William Livingstone, Higham Ferrers; Sidney Maddock, London; Herbert Litchfield, abroad; Frank Sheffield, died during the war; Horace Penness, Rushden; Frank Crouch, Rushden; Laura Childs, (Mrs. F. Perkins), Rushden; Sidney Denton, away; Francis Bird, Married living away; Annie Darnell (Mrs. J. White), Rushden; Florrie Lewis, living away; Maud Dickins, Rushden; Nellie Burgess, (Mrs. Munns), Rushden; Annie Percival, now deceased; Louie Smith (Mrs. Baxter), Chelveston; Elsie Tebbutt, living away; Annie Croft, living away; ………….Sherwood, deceased; Ernest George, abroad; Elsie Linnitt, married, living away; Ginger Harris, deceased; Horace Kitchener, Rushden; Horace Charles, Rushden; Lizzie Lewis (Mrs. Checkfield), Rushden; Fred Clayton, died during War; Willie Chambers, deceased; Jerry Burton, Rushden; Lily Savage, deceased. [see also Emigration]
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The Rushden Echo & Argus, 1st November 1929, transcribed by Gill Hollis
Five shillings due to a Rushden reader:- Mr. S. Robinson, 11, Park-place, for his notes on the school group published last week. The names supplied by Mr. Robinson vary slightly from another entrant’s list, but the winner took care to include a general description of the group, and thus enabled the choice to be made in his favour.
Mr. Robinson writes:- The photo was taken thirty-one years ago on Mr. Vann’s lawn, High-street South, and it is a group of scholars from the old National School.
Top row: Cory Walker, Harry Wesley (dead), Harry Swann, Thomas Woods (killed by accident), Jack Burgess (in Canada), Silas Wright (Wymington), Fred Bass (killed in war), Tim Bates (dead).
2nd row: Tom Cook (killed in war), William Spavins, Albert Bird (dead), William Knight, Robert Willmott, Jack Morris, Horace Linnitt, Walter Woods, Sidney Robinson, Ralph Burton.
Girls: Florrie Baker, Emily Knight, Florrie Colburn, Annie Jackson (in Australia), Lily Fountain (dead), Florrie Goodman (in Canada), Ethel Whiting, Nellie Wooding.
4th row: Nellie Boswell, Nellie Pendred, Emily Holdsworth, Eleanor Woods, Margery Eady, Minnie Wilmott (in Canada), Violet Stacey.
Mr. Vann (schoolmaster), and Miss Howard.
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