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From the Papers ...
Display of Work, 1975 A display of work was held at Meldreth Primary School on Friday evening when the children took their parents into the hall and classrooms to see their own special contributions. The youngest children had made a variety of 3D pictures, some achieving a 3D effect with the aid of shells, matchboxes and fabric. Others were in mosaics and in the form of face masks. There were also models made with educational toys, junk models an...
Photographs from the 1970s
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Memories of John George Mortlock
Extract from ‘Old Bill – Memories of a Meldreth Man’ by Bill Wing senior (compiled to celebrate Bill’s 100th birthday on March 10 1993) I heard there was a job going up at Mr Mortlock’s at The Court helping the gardener. That seemed a better job which paid seven shillings and sixpence a week. Going up in the world! Mr Mortlock, who had a china shop in Oxford Street used to go up to London every day by train – he travelled first class! When he cam...
Hope Folly
... Jo Lawrence Edwin Hope was my gg grandmother's brother, if anyone is interested in this line. Mike Hi Jo. You don't have a photo of Edwin do you by any chance? ...
John George Mortlock (1835 - 1917)
John George Mortlock (JG) was born on March 11th 1835 in Paddington, the eldest son of John Mortlock (1807 – 1888) and Mary Hill. The Mortlock family moved to Meldreth sometime before 1841 where sadly JG’s mother died in the January. JG would have been just six years old. His father remarried in 1851 and the family moved to Melbourn, most likely to The Moat House in Moat Lane JG, by this time, had left home and was working as an assistant to Jose...
From the Log Book ...
A False Alarm The following report of an air raid siren appears in the school log book for 6 June 1940: Air raid precautions. A siren was heard at 11.7am and children were dispersed to houses in the immediate neighbourhood of the school, according to plans previously made. Later it was discovered there had been no air-raid warning. The War Effort Throughout the war, the school contributed to the war effort by raising money, as seen in these extra...
May Day Photographs
... The following photographs were provided by Ann Handscombe and were taken at the May Day celebrations, held at the Primary School in 1961. Gillian Fleet was the May Queen. ...
John Mortlock (1807 - 1888)
The story of the Mortlock family here in Meldreth continues with William Mortlock’s son John who was born in Paddington on December 24th 1807. In 1815 William and his family moved to Manting House in Meldreth. John was 8 at this time and so spent much of his early life here in Meldreth. By 1832 John, aged 25, was in partnership with his brother William in the family china business at 18 Regents Street. This partnership was dissolved by mutual con...
School Concerts in the 1960s
... Ann Haycock (née Stierer) Does anyone know where Jane Harris is living now? We were friends at Melbourn Village College. I think Jane was interested in working in advertising when she left Melbourn Village College....
The Rhythm Rascals
Beginnings I can remember being ill at home and … an accordion arriving from school. I don’t know who arranged it for me. It was very pretty, a pale grey mother of pearl/marble effect. I think it belonged to Mr Harding’s daughter. My father, who had had an accordion band years before, showed me the keys and buttons and how they worked and I was off! Of course the band wasn’t even an idea then and no-one else at the school played. I must have gone...
Memories of Meldreth School
If you have memories of the school from the 1960s, please add a comment at the bottom of this page. Thank you. From William Holliday, pupil at the school from 1958 to 1965 The punishment that we used to get in the infant class was to stand at the back of the classroom facing the wall. In Mrs Rathbone’s Class you would get a swift smack to the back of the legs or would be given lines. In the top class, Mr Harding had a brown plimsoll or a cane tha...
The School Swimming Pool
Raising the Funds In July 1964, Mr Harding sent a letter to parents requesting their help in raising £250 towards the cost of the school swimming pool. In the extract shown above he said: “The Parent Teachers Association have formed a small working committee to devise ways and means of raising money and we hope you will give us every support in our efforts. We appeal to every resident, whether or not they have children at school, to assist by mak...
Changes to the School Building
The School in 1965 In their 1965 scrapbook of the village, Meldreth WI described the school as follows: The school consists of three main classrooms plus the usual conveniences. School dinners are provided at a cost of one shilling per day and are transported from Melbourn. The headmaster is Mr R J Harding and his staff consists of an infant teacher and a junior teacher. Two part time teachers were added to the staff on January 6th, one taking ne...
William Mortlock (1778 - 1833)
The story of the Mortlock family here in Meldreth begins with William Mortlock, the grandfather of Meldreth’s ‘famous son’, John George Mortlock. William was born in 1778, the son of William Mortlock and Elizabeth White. By 1802 William and his brother John were partners in the family china business but soon after their father’s death in 1807 the brothers dissolved their partnership leaving William to carry on the business alone. William, in the ...
From the Log Book ...
Telephone Installed, September 1954 As recorded in the school log book (see images below) telephone was installed in the school on 15th September 1954. It was used for the first time on 28th September. School Inspection Report, November 1955 Below is an extract from the Inspector’s report. See the image below from the log book. The premises are much better than is usual in rural areas and are well kept. The three classrooms have good natural ligh...
Photographs from the 1960s
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Introduction to the Mortlock Family and Meldreth Parish Records
... Valerie Farthing-Bennetts Is there a link between the Meldreth Mortlocks and the following Mortlock family? William Mortlock (12th September 1693) of Castle Camps Cambridgeshire, who married Keturah Hannibal 11th October 1715, William Mortlock Gender Male Burial Date 17 Jun 1763 Burial Place-Trinity Parish, Ely Cambridgeshire FHL Film Number2112078 Reference ID1763...
Photographs from the 1950s
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James Raymond Howard (1919 - 1943)
James Howard was the son of Alwyne and Evelyn Howard of Chiswick End, Meldreth. He was born in 1919 and attended Meldreth School from 1924 until 1927. During the Second World War, he served as Lieutenant 200204 in the Royal Scots Greys (2nd Dragoons), Royal Armoured Corps. He died on Thursday 16th September 1943 at the age of 24 and is buried in Salerno War Cemetery, Italy. Grave I. A. 44. Below, are extracts from the school admissions register s...
The Purchase of the School's Maypole
... Below is the invoice and receipt for the purchase of the school’s maypole in 1928. The maypole was presented to the school by Mrs Elin, one of the managers. ...
Attendance
Attendance fluctuated considerably during the early years of the school. In October 1912, for the first time ever, a 100% attendance figure for a week was recorded in the school log book. This was repeated the following month. However, there were many absences due to illnesses such as heavy colds, whooping cough and mumps. In 1913, the school was closed completely from 6th February to 10th March due to an outbreak of measles and in 1918, an influ...
Staff Retirements, 1981
Ron Harding Ron Harding retired in December 1981 after almost 30 years as headteacher. Writing in 2000, Mr Harding spoke of his arrival at Meldreth, “a delightful village school of 80 children and an antiquated building with the promise of a new one” and of “the 80 children who had never before had a male teacher”. He recollected that the school telephone was on a window sill in the classroom and the headteacher’s study was the store cupboard (6’...
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The Railway Tavern
The Railway Tavern first became a public house ~1858, seven years after the railway came to Meldreth. Situated in the High Street, Meldreth, between Allerton Terrace and the entrance to the Station car park it would have a been a convenient place for the navvies building the railway, travellers on the railway and workers in the goods yard. It was a popular village pub until it closed in 1959. It was open all day and has a Victorian post-box in th...
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