Meldreth School, 1912
The photograph was taken after the school was presented with the Cambridgeshire Attendance Shield.
The children in the photograph above are aged from 3 to 12. It is believed to include the following pupils:
Fred Aldridge, Gladys Aldridge, Vera Barnes, Emily Blows, ? Budget, Ivy Butler, Jubal Butler, Daisy Butler, Florrie Butler, Fred Christmas, Fred Course, Minnie Course, Audrey Course, Lottie Croxall, Charlie Croxall, Jack Dash, Ernie Dash, Lolly Dash, Basil Dyson, Grace East, Percy Farnham, Arthur Farnham, George Farnham, George Fincham, Harry Folbigg, Nora Green, Edie Green, Percy Hale, George Hale, Stanley Hale, Gladys Harrup, Jack Hodgkinson, Winnie Hodgkinson, Connie Jacklin, Fanny Jacklin, Dora Jacklin, Maud Jacklin, Daisy King, Mary Linsdell, Betty Linsdell, Kitty Linsdell, Bill Linsdell, Edwin Lydall, Ernest Lydall, Gladys Mead, Ethel Mead, Winifred Moxon, Dolly Moxon, Percy Negus, Gladys Negus, Percy Oakman, Percy Pepper, William Pepper, Walter Plumb, Charlie Plumb, Emily Plumb, Queenie Rayner, Ruby Rayner, Reginald Rumbold, Alice Rumbold, Lewis Simons, Ivy Stallibrass, Fanny Vellam, Sarah Vellam, Arthur Walbey, Jack Wing, Montie Wing, Bert Woodcock, Edna Woodcock, Gwen Woodcock
The following children have been identified in the photograph: Percy Pepper, William Pepper, Jack Cox, Mona Cox. For details please see the comments at the bottom of our page entitled School Photographs From 1910-1919.
The following members of staff are also pictured:
Headteacher: Mr Frederick John Aldridge; Teacher: Miss Maud Stearn; Teacher: Miss Violet Huggins
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Thank you for letting us know David. I have now corrected the name on this page and on the other page the photograph is on: school photographs from the 1920s.
The photo Class 2 1928 front row left it should be Iris Pepper not Christine Pepper; she is not in the photo. Iris was the eldest child of Edward and Annie Pepper, my grandparents.
I was so pleased to see the class 2 1928, because on it is my mother Barbara Jarman and my Aunt and Uncle, Doreen and Reg Jarman. It is the clearest photo of them as children I have seen.
Hi Terry, Your comments have been extremely helpful. You have clarified the Thurley photos. I was one generation above what I should have been. Bill senior was married to Grace Brown and his father (also Bill) was married to Mary Wing. I was of the opinion that Bill junior never married and you have confirmed this. Thanks again.
Bill Thurley (snr) worked at the Atlas Stone Company and lived at 1 West Way. His son was also called Bill and he is pictured in the 1925 Rugby team. Bill (jnr) lived all his life at 1 West Way. He worked as a builder for Mr. Paterson before going self employed. He never married.
If anyone knows anything about the Bill Thurley who appears in the 1925 Rugby team photo (parents, wife, children, etc) that would be great. It might be the same Bill Thurley who appears in the 25 year awards photos for the Altas company. I think Bill’s parents might have been William and Mary (Wing).
Does anyone know anything else about the family of Janice and Mervyn Thurley in the “Class 2 1946” photo?
The boy holding the ball in the 1925 Rugby team is Donald East.
Thank you, Terry. I have now added Donald’s name.
The girl standing between Flora and Helen Waldock is Gladys Wing in the photograph of Class 1 1928
Thank you, John. I have added Gladys’ name below the photograph now.
David,
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Can any of these pictures be purchased? Would love to get the ones showing my Mum and uncles: Pauline, Peter, Colin and John Salmon.
1948 school photograph: I think the girl in the third row, between Barbara Cox and Ronnie Hunt, is Felicity Bowen, who used to live in what is now the village shop.
Thank you for your comment, Christine. I have now added Felicity’s name to the 1948 photograph.
Ref. the school photograph of 1938. I found an entry in my fathers diary Oct. 1940. “Don (our evacuee) and his two pals Jack and Frank, who are twins and as like as two peas in a pod, have been playing gangsters with tommy guns most of the day.” I would guess that they are the unnamed twins in the above photograph. I don’t know their surname or whether they were evacuees or not.
Ref, the school photograph of 1938. I remember a school sports day in 1941/42 when Mary Stubbing won every athletics event, beating all the boys. I think she came second though in throwing the cricket ball, which was won by Albert Dash.
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