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Photograph number:
Schools 27
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Circa 1951/2
St Paul’s C
of E School
Known faces: Back row left to right: Denise
Blackshaw, Shirley Jackson, Margaret Draper, Dorothy Francis, ?, ?, John
Haigh, Peter Lukey and Mr Balmforth the headmaster. Middle row left to
right: Hilary Newton, Pamela Hanwell, Susan Robinson, Nelson Steele, Paul
Normington, Ronal Basier, ? and
Neil Mansfield. Bottom row left to right: Roseanne Staves, Margaret
Grimes, Joyce Hawley, Anne Wilce, Barbara Lawton, John Grimes, William
Newton, David Hollins, John Cooper and Tommy Bell
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Photograph
number: Schools 28
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Circa 1950s
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Horton’s class
The
information on this photograph was provided by Christine Johnson (nee
Beard) who lived at 51 Park View, and attended the school from 1949 to
1955. Christine moved with her husband John to Perth Western Australia.
John taught at Felkirk and Cudworth School. Christine sister Marlene still
lives in Brierley and is married to Terry Haynes of the St John Ambulance
fame.
Known faces:
Back row left to right: Mrs
Horton teacher, ?, Roy Makings, John ?, Raymond Dye, Wilfred Oliver, ?,
Malcolm Crick, Terence ?, Gordon Steele, Alan Fleetwood, ?, Anthony
Spaxman, Peter Dawson, Mr Balmforth headmaster. Middle row right to left:
Sylvia Law, Tony Ince, Carol Ince, Michael Haigh, Jean Tomlinson, ?, Peter
Kay, ?, Barbara Carr, Neil White, Anne Gascoigne, Mary Harding. Bottom row
l to r: Jean Horsefall, Katherine Harris, Pat Jackson, Pat Audin, Margaret
Bates, Jose Crick, Pauline Scott, Doreen Smith, Jean Armstrong and Christine
Beard
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Photograph
number:
Schools
29
Circa 1908
St Paul’s C
of E School
The headmaster Mr William
Sharp can be seen on the right of the picture. He was headmaster from 1903
till 1931. He lived in the house next to the church until well into the
1930s. The small boy standing next to him is Hubert ? Wroe who was deaf
and dumb. On the back row second left is Beatie Kenyon who went on to
marry Eddie Thorpe. Their son Vernon married Annie Mathers. Annie Watson
is the girl 6th from the left and her sister Jessie can be seen on the
front row of girls standing. She is the fourth girl from the left. The
first girl on the left is Ida Fox whose family owned Violet Farm. Her
daughter Mrs Swinbank who ran the petrol station at the top of Brierley
Hill provided the information to this photograph that was donated by Pam
Fewster
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Photograph
number:
Schools
30
1988
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Bradley’s class
Back row left to right: Mrs Bradley, Carol
Wright, Natalie Armitage, Rebecca Fletcher, John Ennis, ?, Jayne
Hughes, Gary Williams and Edwin Hambleton Headmaster. Middle row l to r:
Helen Raison, Debbie Simpson, Carl Pears, Laura Hunton, Mark Baker, Donna
Finlay, Kerry Barker, Keeley Montgomery and Mathew Donaghue. Sitting l to
r: Stacey Knee, Pamela Foster, Katie Greenwood, Gary Birks, Lee Taylor,
Christopher Esposito, John Thornton, Alan Marsh and Dean Heckler
Names
provided by Rebecca Fletcher
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Photograph number:
Schools 31
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Circa 1970
St Paul’s C
of E School staff
Back left to
right: Mrs Fox class 4 and Mrs Peacock infants. Front l to r: Mrs Horton
class 2, Mr Hambleton the head and class 5 and Mrs Thorpe class
3. This photograph was taken in front of the old school, which now stands
derelict
April 2005
update:
Mr Hambleton has
now retired and lives in South Hiendley. Mrs Peacock retired and living on
Cliff Lane Brierley. Mrs Fox has sadly passed away and Mrs Horton retired
and living in Minsthorpe. Mrs Thorpe now retired and living in Mackay
Crescent Brierley
Photograph supplied by Mrs Thorpe
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Photograph
number:
Schools 32
1983
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Horton leaving
Known faces: 1-
Donna White 2- Donna Steele 3- Stuart Hatton 4- Mark Walker 5- Donna
Warring 6- Lee Edwards 7- Tony Haynes 8- Alan Draper 9- Julie Smith 10-
Amanda Simms 11- Gary Cooper 12- Julie Hatton 13-? Haynes 14- Brenda
Howell (Raving Granny) 15- Anne Hatton 17- Rev
Cowperthwaite 18- Mrs Horton 19- Mrs Thorpe
20- the Headmaster Mr Hambleton 21- Adrian Sheard 22- Lesley
Stagg 23- Sally Halliday 24- Natalie Birks and 25- Jim Atherton
Photograph supplied by Mrs Thorpe. Names by Natalie Birks
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Photograph number:
Schools 33
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1983
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Horton leaving
Mrs Horton in
blue next to Mrs Thorpe receiving gifts from the dinner
ladies left to right Mrs Garbutt, Sheila Elvidge and Madge Royston at the
back.
Photograph supplied by Mrs Thorpe
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Photograph number:
Schools 34
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1926
St Paul’s C
of E School class of 1926
Back row left to
right: ?, Joyce Crossland, Betty Dyson, ?, Harry Ward and Arthur Booker. 2nd
row down l to r: Clarice Dyson, Ken Jackson, ?, ?, ?, Tommy Webb, ?, Jimmy
Schofield and ?. 3rd row down l to r: ?, ?, Audrey Beaumont,
Edith Senior, Rita Dyson, ?, Ida Land, Mary Hall and ? 4th row
down: Nora Kershaw, ?, Arthur Greenwood, Dickie Roberts?, Dougie Thorpe
and ?. Bottom row l to r: Arnold Shirt, ? Makins, ? and Don Wroe
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Photograph
number:
Schools 35
1983
St Paul’s C
of E School Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Horton
Mrs Thorpe
(left) and Mrs Horton both left the school in 1983. They were presented
with gifts for teaching three generations of two different families.
Family one were Joan Evans (nee Thorpe), her daughter Betty Richardson and
Betty’s son Alan. The second family were Brenda Day (nee Painter) her
daughter Sheila Goose and Sheila’s son Wayne Crossland
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Photograph
number:
Schools 36
1999
Baipip
exhibition Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Horton
It was a great
honour when two of the local school ex teachers Mrs Thorpe and Mrs Horton
attended the Baipip exhibition at Brierley Social club in 1999. They are
both seen here looking through old photographs. Mrs Horton is on the left
and Mrs Thorpe on the right
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Photograph
number:
Schools 37
Circa 1964/5
St Paul’s
School Carol Ann and David Keith
The school turns
out to say goodbye to Carol Ann and David Keith who left for a new life in
Australia. Known faces in the playground are: Gary Hotchins, Ken Sheard
(lads with arms crossed on the right, next to him is John Keele and then
Mathew Finlay. Others include Stephen Mangham, Steven Wilkinson, Robert
Bennet, Graham Scholey, Alfie Fox, Alan Burdett and Amanda Burton
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Photograph number:
Schools 38 This photograph is on
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Circa 1964/5
St Paul’s
School Carol Ann and David Keith
The staff from
the school say goodbye to Carol Ann and David Keith who left for a new
life in Australia. Left to right: Mrs Webster infant class, Mrs Fox class
four, Mr Balmforth the headmaster and class five, Mrs Thorpe class three
and Mrs Horton class two. At the front are Carol Ann and David
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Photograph
number:
Schools 39
Circa 1964/5
St Paul’s
School Carol Ann and David Keith
Carol Ann and
David Keith who left for a new life in Australia
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Photograph number:
Schools 40
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1961
St Paul’s C
of E School: Trophies from the Pontefract Music Festival
The headmaster
Mr Balmforth is stood at the back. Back row left to right: John Thorpe,
Grant Smith, Michael Pennington, Brian Price, Dorothy Fleetwood, Christine
Bates and Betty Evans. Middle row l to r: Alan Thorpe, David Burdett,
Michael Stewart, Diane McLean, Maureen Hardwick, Sherry Peacock, Sandra
Kerly and Lynn Hancock. Bottom row l to r: Raymond Oates, Brian Grimes,
Phillip Rushworth, Joy Midgley, Linda Spaxman, Gillian Firth and Judith
Scott
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Photograph
number:
Schools 41
1995
Brierley
Primary (VC) school: Miss Gabanski’s class IG
Top row left to
right; David Roystone, Michael Watson, Mark Clarke, Christopher McQueen,
Phillip Watkiss, Paul Brown and Craig Hullen. Second row left to right;
Emma? Ben Steele, Graham Hotchins, Scott Wheatman, Phillip Brown, Dominic
? and Abbey Thomas. Third row left to right; Kimberly Pickets, Nicola
Leadbeater, Nicola Haigh, Craig Wilkinson, Ryan Williams, Tony Harding,
Amanda Parr and Richard Smith. Bottom row left to right; Kelly Young,
Charlotte Schofield, Laura Stables, Holly Findlay, Miss Gabanski, Lucy
Kenworthy, Jennifer Ireland, Jennifer Wincup and Rebecca Kearford
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Photograph
number:
Schools 42
1971
St Paul’s C
of E School Headmaster Edwin Hambleton
Headmaster Edwin
Hambleton who took over has Head at Easter in 1968 on the retirement of Mr
Balmforth.
Photograph reproduced from an old
newspaper cutting
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Photograph
number:
Schools 43
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1941
St Paul’s C
of E School
Top row left to
right: ?, ?, ?, Tony Painter,
Joe Anderson and Jeff Watmough. 2nd row down l to r: ?, ?, ?,
?, Mary Wilkinson, Barbara Nelson (now Pearson and was the
Brierley post woman for a number of years), Jean and Betty Corcoran. 3rd
row down l to r: Lillian Hawley, Betty Wroe, Margaret ?, ?, ?, ?, Dorothy
Audin, Hilary Dixon, Dorothy Vaux, Margaret Shackleton, Jean Baker and ?.
Bottom row l to r: Dereck Goodhall, Clem Pickering, ?, ?, Burt Steele,
Brian Lindsey, ?, Connell Brookes and ?
Photograph
and information supplied by Barbara Pearson
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Photograph
number:
Schools 44
1971
St Paul's C of E School
Centenary celebrations
Brothers David
and Gary Conroy from the Hilltop estate seen here at the schools centenary
celebrations in 1971
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Photograph
number:
Schools 45
1968
St Paul’s C
of E School Football team
Back row left to
right: Alan Hardwick, Gary Wilson, Stephen Mangham, Peter Jackson (went to
live in Brighton) and Alan Bickerton. Front row l to r: John Pashley,
David Leadbeater who went on to play professional football for Hull City,
Gary Hotchins, Geoff Hill, Dean Taylor and Gary Seston. The football
shirts that were worn were the only ones that the school had. They were
probably from the 1930/40s. The new school is built where the lower
goalposts can be seen on this photograph. The white posts in the back were
the boundary to the old footpath to the park
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Photograph
number:
Schools 46
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1971
St Paul’s C
of E School Centenary celebrations
Left to right:?,
Katy ?, ? Kenyon, ?, Jennifer Elvidge, Karen Leadbeater, Shaun Parry,
Geoff Glew, Mark White, Terry Higgs, Janet Vamplew, Jackie Walker, Chris
Round, Dale Greenwell and Chris Little
Photograph re
produced from an old newspaper cutting
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Photograph
number:
Schools 47
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Circa 1963
St Paul’s C
of E School May Queen
Back row left to
right: Julie Pickering, Pearl Jones, Graham Scholey, Peter Oates, Alan
Hardwick, Ralph Bown, Helen James and Jill Stringer. Sat down l to r:
Julie Armitage, Sharon Cross, Christine Sheridan, Karen Elvidge and
Christine Lomas
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Photograph
number:
Schools 48
Circa 1963
St
Paul’s C of E School May Queen
Back row left to
right: Ian Brazier, ?, ?, Marylyn Brown, ?, Amanda Burton, ?, ?, ?, Graham
Marsh and Pauline Kelly. Middle row l to r: Diane Cartwright, Sheila Day,
Neil Tibble, Kevin Elvidge, ?, ?, June Watson and ?. Bottom row l to r:
Brenda Mathers, Paula Bell, ?, Stephen Foster, ?, Kathleen Keele and Linda
Raikes
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Photograph
number:
Schools 49
Circa 1962
St
Paul’s C of E School Nativity
Back three left
to right: Joyce Watson, ?, Shirley Kelly. Going from left to right stood:
Stephen Kerly, Dean Taylor, Terence Guy, John Burton,?, Geoff Hill, ?,
Paul Brown, Nigel Owen and John Makinson. Sat down l to r: Sandra Wenham,
Diane Cartwright, ?, ?, Julie Pickering and in front Christine Lomas, John
Webb?
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Photograph
number:
Schools 50
Date
unknown
St
Paul’s C of E School
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