Thundridge School c1931

By Joan Woolard

Here is a photo of Thundridge School about 1931 with my older brother, Richard “Dick” Skeeles in the centre.

One of my brother’s friends, John Aldridge has provided a key to the numbered photograph of form 3. The listbelow also includes names of other pupils at the school at this time.

Form 3. 1932 (in the picture)

  1. George Spearman
  2.  Christine Wright
  3.  Peggy Allum
  4.  George Philpott
  5.  Norman Goodsell
  6.  Barbara Spearman
  7.  Florrie Charge
  8.  Christine Stanley
  9.  Dick Skeeles
  10.  Peggy Page
  11. Joyce Hatchett
  12. Margaret Britcher
  13.  Vera Charge
  14.  Derreck Lowen
  15. Jessie Aldridge – born 11 Nov 1922
  16.  Dorothy Hardy
  17.  Harry Martin
  18.  Audrey Worby
  19.  Hilda Starling (Do Do)
  20.  Charlie Plum
  21. b Alfred O’Neil (Ratler)
  22.   
  23. Joan Worby (Dinks)
  24.  Douglas Ford
  25.  Fred O’Dell
  26.  Peggy Miller
  27. Derreck Bates (Clem)

Other classmates (not picture)

Form 2.1931

  • Elsie Stanley
  •  Wilfred Blundell
  •  Jim Rowley
  •  Eileen Pratt
  •  Frank Marshall
  •  Fred Pugh
  •  Joan Gilbert
  • Joe Philpott
  •  Walter Aldridge (Son)
  •  John Aldridge
  •  George Head (Squeaker)
  •  Jim Sharp (Banger)
  •  Eric Bartlett
  • Daisy Lee
  •  Marjorie Kilby
  •  Barbara White
  •  Peggy Chapple
  •  Yvon Worby
  •  Jim Pritlove
  •  Kathleen Fox
  •  Dorothy Pratt (Dot)
  •  Alfred Phillips
  •  Lil Phillips ?
  •  Harris (Teacher)
  •  Dorothy Charge

Form 1. 1933

  • Walter Aldridge (Son) – born 3 March 1919
  • George Head (Squeaker)
  •  Tom Wright
  •  George Clark
  •  Fred Pugh
  •  Frank Marshall
  •  Harold Bradford
  •  Barbara White
  • Joe Philpott
  •  Beatrice Philpott
  •  Ivy Shipp
  •  Kathleen Fox
  •  Dorothy Pratt (Dot)
  •  Robert John Overton (Head)
  •  Gladys Barnes
  •  Elsie Stanley
  •  Marjorie Kilby
  •  Dorothy Charge
  •  John Aldridge – born 14 June 1921
  •  Yvon Worby
  •  Ernest Taylor
  •  Hilda Mitchell
  •  Eileen Pratt

 

This page was added on 05/08/2010.

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  • Seems that the numbers on the key are a little muddled, in particular nos. 15 to 20 and 26 to 29, where the names don’t match the gender of the child pictured. Can anyone help identify these back two rows?

    By emma blowers (27/06/2016)