Memories of Stanmore - Greg Green
The Class of 57 – Stanmore Primary School – final Primary year – Miss Glover’s class
I have been looking through the memorabilia of Miss Glover on the school website. The class photograph is of her 1956/7 class, with me included in my final year at Stanmore Primary.
The photograph is one of two (or more) made available for purchase that year, and I have attached the version that I have, with names added E&OE. This class was probably one of her all-time largest classes; one of two baby boomer classes for that year. There appears to be no space for her to be seated amongst her forty three pupils. If I remember correctly she managed the class, single-handedly; I have no memory of help being provided by parents or classroom assistants, in those days.
Like Nigel Sacree in his account elsewhere, I vividly remember Miss Glover’s serialisation of Moonfleet on Friday afternoons.
Miss Glover had spent her childhood in Weymouth, the town at the end of the railway line which passes the school. The Moonfleet author J Meade Falkner also schooled in Weymouth, a few generations earlier, and the setting for his book was based on Fleet church, just a Sunday’s walk away from Miss Glover’s childhood home in Weymouth.
In 1911, Frances Annie GLOVER, was aged 6 years and her father was working at the torpedo factory in the Royal Navy’s Portland harbour. This association is likely to have provided the background for her essay on the Royal Navy in the Great War.
Thanks for the website; it brought back many happy memories of my school days and childhood.
Greg GREEN
Names from the class of 1957
James Spratt
Michael Newell
Keith Reade
Michael New
Robert Ellis
Christine Stanford
David Reece
Graham Bushby
Colin Chapman
Anthony Milgate
Christopher Perry
Trudy Chandler
Jean Harbut
Valerie Walker
Susan Hutchins
Jennifer Painter
Valerie Northgate
Christine Strong
Michael Edwards
Diane Lockyer
Janet Scorey
Dawn Williams
Gillian Waterer
John Poole
Diane Johnstone
Molly Hill
Marilyn Bignall
Deidre Denham
Rosemary Negus
Marian Hyde
Pauline Longlands
Penelope Hudd
Jill Emery
Gary Ruffell
Barry Jenkins
David Joyce
Gregory Green
Michael Moss
Robert Cousins
Susan Clarke
Gillian Miller
Miranda Hinton
Missing Paul Tarrant
Memories of Stanmore - Glenda Phillips (nee Mills)
Pupil | 1952 - 1958
Many happy memories.
The old school toilets, having to go outside. The dining room - getting wet crossing over the lane and lining up for meals. I liked tapioca and jam!
Music lessons with Mr Waldren. Milk bottles being cold and coming out of the top in winter. Walking up Stanmore Lane and calling into the sweet shop.
Memories of Stanmore - Joyce Collins (nee Chard)
Pupil | 1957 - 1962
Lovely friendly school. Playing recorder in Mr Waldrin’s class. Doing a project on Winchester and we visited exciting places. Playing netball for school. The frozen milk which I didn’t drink. Sports Day - such fun. The Fetes out on the front lawn.
Memories of Stanmore - Michael Bright
Pupil | 1948 - 1951
I was born in No 1 Nuns Walk Winchester, after the war we moved to Addison Close, Stanmore Estate.
I came to the school in 1948, in Miss Glover’s class. I think I was in one play as an owl. Mr King was the Headmaster. I remember the boys toilets were outside and had to dash there in the bad weather, also the tracing paper toilet rolls. My father Ron Bright came here when the school opened in 1928. This has been a lovely day, bringing back lots of memories.
Memories of Stanmore - Mike Burke
Pupil | 1950 - 1956
The teachers: Mr King, Headteacher; Mrs Allen; Miss Read; Miss Blake; Miss Morgan; Mr Marshall; Mr Davis; Miss Glover; Miss Cowan; Mr Ireland; Mr Morrison
Winning the cup in 1954 Stanmore 3 - Western 0
Team: Jubb; Matthews; Tarrant; Harsher; Starr; Tibble; Judd; Baird; Burke; Taylor; Jervis
Manager: Mr Harrison
Stanmore Junior School Choir c1957
Were you in the school choir in 1957? Do you recognise anyone in the photo below?
David Waldren
Renny Waygood
Ruth Hopwood
Ann Shortland
?
Janet(?) Nelson
Susan Goodall
Shirley Cox
Nigel Sacree
John Miller
David Harder
Colin Pickett
John Bishop
Mr R E King (Headmaster)
Kill Miles
Helen Starr
Caroline or Carolyn Haynes
Valerie Heanes
Jane Lahey or Leahy
?
Rosemary Horness
Peter Clark
Malcolm Pearson
David Stuart
Howard Jerram or Jerome
John Mariner
Roberta (Bobby) Dunbar
Caroline Lugg
Diane Jarvis
Margaret Hennin
?
Teresa Cozens
? Macklin
?
Jennifer Pendreigh
Linda Edwards?
Janet Malt
Ann Richards
Inter-school sports - 1950s
These photos are from the Winchester and District Primary School Sports Day held at Weeke Junior School
1950s educational books
Here are a selection of the books we have in our archives from around the 1950s.
My First Atlas - W. & A.K. Johnston & G.W. Bacon Ltd
Timothy’s Book of Trains
Wonder Ways Activity Readers - The Doll’s House
The Other Children by Margaret Harding
A book of handy words by James Hemming
A school exchange with Kensal Rise School - June 1958
In June 1958 the boys of Kendal Rise School visited Stanmore Junior School. From the welcome note it appears that the Stanmore pupils had visited Kendal Rise School earlier in the year.
The booklet has a variety of activities for the boys to complete including visits to the Cathedral, St Cross and Southampton Docks.
Memories of Stanmore 1955 - 1959
In this memoire, Paul describes the school, lunch and teachers. He recalls a time when lightning struck the school grounds,
“because there was a flash and a thunderbolt struck the grassed area next to the netball pitch adjacent to the wooden class rooms and left a small hole where it had struck!'“
The school swimming pool
In 1959, the Parent Teacher Association wanted to build a swimming pool for the Juniors and a paddling pool for the Infants on the site of the old air raid shelters. It doesn’t look like the proposal was acted upon.
Royal connections - The Queen
The children of Stanmore have had a couple of occasions to see The Queen whilst in Winchester.
Coronation Pageant Souvenir Programme
June 153
A photo of the Coronation Pageant June 1953 stuck at the back of the programme
The Queen visiting Winchester on 26 July 1955
Pupils from the school also went to see The Queen on 13th April 1979, after presenting Maundy Money in Winchester Cathedral in accordance with the ancient ceremony.
The Mayfair
In the late 1950s the school celebrated May Day with a fair. We have tickets and photographs from 1959 and 1957. Were you there - do you remember these events?
The sheep is carved by the Deputy Mayor watched by the Mayoress, The Headmaster, and Mr Evans, the butcher, who was responsible for the barbecue.
Stanmore Mayfair 1957
Radio celebrity “Grace Archer” crowns the May Queen.
This picture appeared in the newspaper in 1956(?) with the headline “Stanmore’s pretty May Queen”
The caption read: “The Mayor of Winchester, Councillor Miss E. M. Barnes, crowns the May Queen after opening Stanmore Fete. The pretty May Queen is Miss Penelope Hudd and her attendants are Ann Mason, Angela Martin, Amanda Trigg and Glenis Sommerbell; and the two pages, Anthony Stride and Richard Bramley.
Staff photos - donated by the family of Mrs Molly Cooper
These photos were dontated by the family of Mrs Molly Cooper after she died. Can you identify the missing names and can you help us date these photos? We know Mr King became Headteacher on 11 September 1950 and Miss Glover retired in July 1968.
Staff photo
Back row - ?, ?, ?, ?, Miss Clarke, Mr Wolloughby, Mr Chipperfield
Front row - Mrs Blake, Miss Glover, Miss Percival, Mr King, Mrs Cooper, Miss Brown, Mrs Green
Memories of Stanmore School 1949 - 1951 by Rod Youngman
Rod came to the school between 1949 and 1951. In this detailed account of life at the school he talks about the challenges of spelling, uniform, equipment, being ink monitor, milk monitor or even bell monitor. He talks of occasionally coming to school by bus, teachers throwing board dusters, listening to the wireless, assembly, playtime, nick-names, tricks and getting into trouble!
