St. John's RC Primary School, Chapel Lane
St. John's RC Primary School, c1916.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, Frank Urquhart, unknown 2, unknown 3, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, unknown 7, unknown 8, unknown 9 (teacher).
Middle row left - right: unknown 10, unknown 11, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16.
Front row left - right: unknown 17, unknown 18, unknown 19, unknown 20 , unknown 21, unknown 22, unknown 23, unknown 24, unknown 25.
(Photo courtesy - Denise and Tony Bridge).
St. John's RC Primary School, c1918.
Back row left - right: Frank Urquhart, unknown 1, unknown 2, unknown 3, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, unknown 7, unknown 8.
Middle row left - right: unknown 9, unknown 10, unknown 11, unknown 12, Bertha Prescott, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, unknown 17, unknown 18.
Front row left - right: unknown 19, unknown 20, unknown 21, unknown 22 (behind), Mary Parker (nee Disley), unknown 23, unknown 24, unknown 25, unknown 26.
(Photo courtesy - Denise and Tony Bridge).
St John's RC Primary School, c1924/25.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, unknown 2, unknown 3, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, unknown 7, unknown 8 (teacher).
Middle row left - right: unknown 9, unknown 10, unknown 11, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, unknown 17.
Front row left - right: Celia Dawson, unknown 19, unknown 20, unknown 21, Bill Draper, unknown 23.
Sat at the front left - right: unknown 24, unknown 25, unknown 26, unknown 27.
(Photo courtesy - Barbara Watson).
St. John's RC Primary School, 1944/45.
Back row left - right: Terry Kelly, John Stringfellow, Francis Bird, Pat Orritt, Jimmy Fisher, Francis Dunford.
3rd row left - right: Joan Cheetham, Ann Ashton, Margaret Morris, Teresa Flaherty, Geraldine Kennedy, Dorothy Rainford.
2nd row left - right: Ann Evans (nee Hannon), Margaret Greatorex, Teresa Bull, Edith Culshaw, Marie Croft, Eileen Hopson.
Front row left - right: Francis Clarkson, Gavin Kelly, Bernard Manwaring.
(Photo courtesy - Jimmy and Jean Martland).
St. John's RC Primary School, c1954.
Back row left - right: Michael Birrell, Ann Birrell, Stephen Clayton?, ? Smally, Tommy Marsden, Unknown 1, David Ritchie.
3rd row left - right: Michael Brewer, unknown 2, unknown 3, Noel Delaney, George Mortimer, John Orritt, Henry Beesley, Clive Winrow, Roy Platford, Anthony Rawlinson, Peter Briggs, ? Smally.
2nd row left - right: Linda Couch, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, Barbara Gallagher, unknown 7, unknown 8, Denise Urquhart, Marion Baron, Judith Brand, Angela Turner.
Front row left - right: Joyce McConville, Stephen Judge, Teresa Clarkson.
(Photo courtesy - Denise and Tony Bridge).
St. John's RC Primary School, c1955/56.
Back row left - right: Eileen Ritchie, Rita Johnson, Guisepa Inferno, Peter Gregory, unknown 2, Marie Croft, nee Fairclough (teacher).
Middle row left - right: Michael Hannon, unknown 3, Frank Gallagher, unknown 4, unknown 5, George Howard, Tom Porter, Dennis Lydiate, Peter Bullen, William Clarkson, Patrick Cronin.
Front row left - right: Christine Daily, Patricia Lamb, Maureen Hargreaves, Irene Dobson, Barbara Jarvis, Jean Middlehurst, Marion Rawlinson, Angela Mullen, Susan Rosthorne, Gail Rodgers, Ruth Hargreaves, Eileen Clayton.
(Photo courtesy - Barbara Watson, nee Jarvis).
St. John's RC Primary School, c1962.
Back row left - right: Fr. Riley, unknown 1, Frankie Reynolds, Jean Martland (nee Ashton), unknown 3, Kathleen Roberts, Catherine Brennan, unknown 6, unknown 7, unknown 8, unknown 9, unknown 10, Mrs Flarty (teacher).
3rd row left - right: unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, ? Boyers, unknown 16, Pete Callander, David Forshaw, unknown 19.
2nd row left - right: Theresa Brennan, Lynne Malmsteen (nee Ashton), Gillian Tucker (nee Marsden), Kathleen Ritchie, Janet Mcleod, Linda Szostak, unknown 26, Carol Hannon, unknown 28.
Front row left - right: unknown 29, unknown 30, William Barry, Paul Yates, unknown 33, Mike Derbyshire, unknown 35.
(Photo courtesy - Jimmy and Jean Martland).
St John's C of E Primary School, early 1900s.
St John's C of E Primary School, c1920.
Back row, 1st left Alice Rimmer, 2nd Margaret Rimmer. (Photo courtesy - Pauline Smith).
St. John's C of E Primary School. On the wall can be seen pictures of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, dating it between August 1902 - May 1910.
Jim Lyon is on the extreme right, standing at the back.
(Photo courtesy - Jimmy and Jean Martland).
St. John's C of E Primary School. On the wall can be seen pictures of King Edward VII and Queen Alexandra, dating it between August 1902 - May 1910.
(Photo courtesy - Jean Holroyd).
St. John's C of E Primary School, 1928.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, unknown 2, unknown 3, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, unknown 7, unknown 8.
4th row left - right: Jane Hilton, Marion Grayson, unknown 11, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, unknown 17.
3rd row left - right: unknown 18, unknown 19, unknown 20, Grace Alexander, unknown 21, unknown 22, unknown 23, unknown 24, unknown 25, Miss Hankin (teacher).
2nd row left - right: Tom Watkinson, unknown 26, unknown 27, unknown 28, Tommy Meadows, unknown 30, unknown 31.
Front four left - right: unknown 32, unknown 33, unknown 34, unknown 35.
(Photo courtesy - Ste Howard).
St. John's C of E Primary School, c1930.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, Harry Walker, unknown 3, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, unknown 7, unknown 8, unknown 9.
Middle row left - right: unknown 10 (teacher), unknown 11, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, unknown 17, unknown 18, unknown 19.
Front row left - right: unknown 20, unknown 21, unknown 22, unknown 23, Vera Fletcher, unknown 25, unknown 26, unknown 27, unknown 28, unknown 29.
(Photo courtesy - Claire Williams).
St. John's C of E School, c1930s.
(Photo courtesy - Claire Williams).
St. John's C of E Primary School, 1931.
Back row left - right: Miss Wright (teacher), Harry Johnson ?, Fred Parr, Llewellyn Castle, Harry Walker, Jimmy Crow, John Forshaw, Fred Waring, Tom Draper, Walter Lamb.
Middle row left - right: Freda Palmer, Doris Gibbons, Edith Bridle, Vera Fletcher, Hilda Sephton, Ronnie Arkwright, Mark Gaskell, Tom Martland, Walter Disley.
Front row left - right: Doris Lamb, Harry Forshaw, Ernie Pardoe, Rhonda Hankin, Shelia Smith, Hazel Brewer, Mary Daniels, Norah Caunce, Norah Iddon.
(Photo courtesy - Claire Williams).
St. John's C of E Primary School, c1934.
Back row left - right: Miss Smith (teacher), unknown 2, unknown 3, Jim Johnson, unknown 5, unknown 6, unknown 7.
3rd row left - right: unknown 8, Enid Higham (nee Fletcher), unknown 10, unknown 11, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, unknown 17.
2nd row left - right: unknown 18, unknown 19, unknown 20, unknown 21, unknown 22, unknown 23, unknown 24, unknown 25.
Front row left - right: unknown 26, unknown 27, unknown 28, unknown 29, unknown 30, unknown 31.
(Photo courtesy - Claire Williams).
St. John's C of E Primary School, 1935. (Infant Class).
Back row (standing) left - right: Miss Wright, Evelyn Forshaw, ? Rosthorn, unknown 1, Jean Garner, unknown 2, Doris Lamb, unknown 3.
Middle row left - right: unknown 4, Margaret Rosthorn, unknown 5, unknown 6, Lillian Bracegirdle, unknown 7.
Front row left - right: unknown 8, ? Swift, unknown 9, Shelia Gore, Unknown 10.
(Photo courtesy - John Gorst).
St. John's C of E Primary School, 1936.
Back row left - right: Jimmy Rawsthorne, Fred Forshaw, Ralf Eastwood, John Culshaw, Derek Eastwood, Billy Prescott, Miss Smith.
3rd row left - right: Brenda Culshaw, Nora Forshaw, Gladys Gregson, Betty Wardle, Lillian Bracegirdle, Margaret Lamb.
2nd row left - right: Jean Garner, Lorna Truscott, Shelia Rosbottam, Denise Routledge.
Front row left - right: Eddie Walker, Ronnie Hankin, Laurence Welsh, Ken Castle, Harry Langton.
(Photo courtesy - John Gorst).
St. John's C of E Primary School, c1937.
Back Row left - right: Betty Hilton, Margaret Rawsthorne, Mary Forshaw, Tommy Parr, Jim Charnock, Raymond Bridge, Derek Martland, Rita Martland.
Front row left - right: Norma Brewer, John Fyles, Alan Culshaw, Rita Hayes, Bobby Norris, Jim Jones, ? Ashton, John Parr, Gordon Bracegirdle.
Front: unknown 1.
(Photo courtesy - John Parr).
St. John's C of E Primary School, c1951/52.
Back row left - right: Mr Weston (teacher), Raymond Clarkson, Alan Johnson, George Lee.
Middle row left - right: Dennis Morris, Jean Martland, Dorothy Salthouse, unknown 8, Hannah Iddon, Barbara Moss, Daphne Lord, Tom Spencer.
Front row left - right: unknown 13, Pat Prentice, Audrey Johnson, Joyce Howard, Rose Georgeson, Hilda Johnson, Mary Forshaw, unknown 20, Leyla Hayes?.
Front two left - right: Jeff Hankin, unknown 23.
(Photo courtesy - Tom Spencer).
St. John's C of E Primary School 1958.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, unknown 2, Harry Almond, John France, unknown 5, George Baybutt, Roger Currie, unknown 8, Sylvia Todd (nee Howard), Mrs Taylor (teacher).
Middle row left - right: Colin Culshaw ?, Richard Melling, Lesley Halton, Billy Pye, David Hankin, unknown 16, David Drury, Richard Valentine?, Dennis Palmer, Trevor Spencer.
Front row left - right: Caroline Astley ? , Beryl Matindale, Anne Vickers, Marion Gibbons, Sandra Lamb, Barbara Eastwood, Kathleen Halton ?, Margaret Melling, Elaine Stringfellow, Olwen Pritchard, Sheila Walton.
Sat at the front: unknown 32.
(Photo courtesy - Andrew Walton).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Lane & Drive
Lordsgate School, Lordsgate Lane, c1925.
Next to back row on the right: Phyllis Houghton (nee Howard).
(Photo courtesy - Ste Howard).
Lordsgate Primary School, Lordsgate Lane, 1932.
Back row left - right: Miss Halsall, unknown 1, John Huyton , Bobby Culshaw, Hector Parr, John Gorst, Freddy Blackburn, unknown 2, Henry Alty, Ernie Melling.
Middle row left - right: unknown 3, unknown 4, Brian Tetlow ?, unknown 5, unknown 6, John Garner, Jonny Prescott, unknown 7, Bill Suffell.
Front row left - right: unknown 8, Sarah Deakin, Ivy Hardman, Nellie Glover, Maggie Forshaw ? , Mollie Postlethwaite, Vera Lamb, Irene Culshaw, Betty Caunce, unknown 9.
(Photo courtesy - John Gorst).
Lordsgate School, Lordsgate Lane, 1936.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, unknown 2, Walter Norris, unknown 3, unknown 4, unknown 5, Harry Robinson, Richard Caunce, Ronnie Martland, unknown 9.
3rd row left - right: Brenda Kennedy, unknown 10, unknown 11, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, Doreen Jackson, unknown 16, unknown 17, Lillian Bowen.
2nd row left - right: unknown 18, Evelyn Lamb, ? Watkinson, Marian Ollivier (nee Forshaw), unknown 21, unknown 22, Edie Whittaker.
Front row left - right: John Gibbons, Ronald Cheetham, Alan Suffell, Eric Craven, unknown 24, Frank Draper, unknown 26, Dick Norris.
(Photo courtesy - Roy & Evelyn Pardoe).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Drive, 1950.
Back row left - right: John Rylance, Tony Walsh, John Hesketh, Frank Leatherbarrow.
Middle row left - right: Brian Griffin, ? Crompton, Roy Craven, Edward Baybutt, Melvin Ashcroft, Ian Mckenzie, Alan Bowen.
Front row left - right: Alison Guy, unknown 13, Valerie Swift, Maureen Singleton, unknown 16, Dorothy Stopforth, unknown 18, Pamela Heath, June Strickland, unknown 21, Doris Sampson.
Front two left - right: Sheila Ashton, Hannah Draper.
(Photo courtesy - Christine Bellamy).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Lane, c1950/51.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, Ernie Ollerton, George Clandon, unknown 2, Brian Forshaw, unknown 4, Paul McKenzie ?, Michael Nicholson, Alan Smith, unknown 8.
Front row left - right: Judith Foden, Caroline Astley, Pam Forshaw, Mary Hartley, unknown 11, Eileen Orrit, Ann Flavell, Pauline Parks, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, unknown 17.
Front two left - right: unknown 18, unknown 19.
(Photo courtesy - Ann Smith, nee Flavell).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Lane, c1953.
Back row left - right: David Yates, Eileen Orritt, unknown 3, unknown 4, Susan Hodgson, Joan Styles, Jimmy Nicholson.
Middle row left - right: Ernest Ollerton, unknown 9, Brian Forshaw, Ian Brown, Alan Smith, Harry Smith, Robbie Sarbutts ?, George Clandon, Michael Griffiths, Ian Briggs.
Front row left - right: Caroline Astley, Judith Foden, Joyce Melling, Ann Flavell, Mary Hartley, unknown 23, Pauline Parks, unknown 25, Hazel Berry, Marjorie Oldfield, Angela Howe.
Front three left - right: Frank Bellas, unknown 30, Terence Snape.
(Photo courtesy - Ann Smith, nee Flavell).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Drive, 1960.
Back row left - right: Irene Alexander, Jean Rawsthorne, unknown 1, unknown 2, unknown 3, Jean Mawdesley, Christine Harvey, Janet Crowhurst, Gladys Newton, Susan Maloney, Irene Spafford.
3rd row left - right: Robert Kirby, Keith Wilce, James Martland, unknown 6, Richard Forshaw, Steven Lamb, Derek Ashcroft, David Gibbons, Stephen Williams, Johnny Shaw, David Riding, unknown 8.
2nd row left - right: unknown 9, Myra Gibbons, Pauline Brennan, Alison Caunce, unknown 10, Margaret Hogg, Sheila Small, Carol Woods, Ann Sharman, June Disley, Wendy Brown, Ann Marie Baybutt, Maureen Hulme.
Front row left - right: David Harrison, Colin Lea, Stephen Alty, Charles Parker, Keith Disley, Colin Norris, Howard Cheetham.
(Photo courtesy - Jimmy and Jean Martland).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Drive, 1961.
Back row left - right: Irene Spafford, unknown 1, Gladys Newton, Maureen Hulme, unknown 3, Pauline Brennan, June Disley, Chritine Harvey, Janet Crowhurst, Clifford Harrison.
Middle row left - right: Charles Parker, Colin Lea, David Gibbons, Johnny Shaw, Stephen Williams, David Caunce, Derek Ashcroft, Stephen Alty, Richard Forshaw, James Martland, Robert Kirby.
Front row left - right: Myra Gibbons, Rita Meredith ?, unknown 5, Ann Sharman, unknown 6, Margaret Hogg, Sheila Small, unknown 7, Jean Mawdesley, unknown 8, unknown 9, Ann Marie Baybutt.
Sat in front: Alison Caunce.
(Photo courtesy - Jimmy and Jean Martland).
Lordsgate Township C of E Primary School, Lordsgate Drive, 1964.
Back row left - right: Stephen Alty, Penny College, Christine Harvey, Pauline Lingard, Susan Bullen, Sheila Small, Audrey Wilce, Derek Ashcroft, Margaret Hogg, Jeremy Hutchinson, Jean Mawdesley.
Middle row left - right: Vincent ? , Richard Forshaw, Colin Lea, David ? , James Martland, David Gibbons, Jimmy Everall, Johnny Shaw, Gerard ? , Barry Norris, Lloyd Green, Robin Steele.
Front row left - right: Wendy Brown, unknown 1, Ann Marie Baybutt, unknown 2, Carol Woods, Jennifer Hankin, Anne Sharman, June Disley, Carol Melling, Pauline Brennan, Maureen Hulme.
(Photo courtesy - Jimmy and Jean Martland).
Methodist School, early 1900s.
(Photo courtesy - Irene Harrison).
Methodist School, early 1900s.
(Photo courtesy - Nancy Wells).
Methodist School, c1920s.
(Photo courtesy - Beryl Fleming).
Methodist School, 1920s.
Back row left - right: unknown 1, unknown 2, George ?, unknown 4, unknown 5, unknown 6, Harry Gore, Horace Disley.
Middle row left - right: unknown 9, unknown 10, Catherine Hankin, unknown 12, unknown 13, unknown 14, unknown 15, unknown 16, Mr Gerald Robinson (Headmaster).
Front row left - right: unknown 18, Tiggy Baldwin, unknown 20, unknown 21, unknown 22, unknown 23, unknown 24.
(Photo courtesy - Joyce Hampson).
Methodist School, early 1950s.
Back row left - right: Pauline Stringman, Pat Phillips, Valerie Christie, Sandra Lamb, Christine Arnold, unknown 6, Len Baldwin, Dennis Draper, unknown 9, Dave Lomax, Derek Taylor, Colin Peet.
3rd row left - right: Richard Slobin, Ellis Draper, George Slobin, Colin Stringman ?, unknown 17, Jean Cheetham, unknown 19, unknown 20.
2nd row left - right: Rodney Ashcroft, Brian Fairclough, Ken Spencer, Derek Cheetham, David Molineux, Sheila Robbins, Margaret Turner, Joan Dargen, Joyce Brown, Edith Harrison.
Front row left - right: unknown 31, unknown 32, unknown 33, Ronnie Slobin, Fred Bimpson, Rodney Postlethwaite, unknown 37, unknown 38, Pat Bimpson.
(Photo courtesy - David Lindon Rimmer).
Methodist School, June 1951.
Back row left - right: David Owen, David Rimmer, unknown 3, unknown 4, Harold Neale, Alan Pye, Robert Johnson, Philip Caunce, unknown 9, Gerald Gudgeon, unknown 11 (teacher).
Middle row left - right: Susan Price, Linda Price, Jean Winrow, Cynthia Dutton, Betty Parr, Jean Aspinall, Christina Brown, Ann Fairclough, Barbara Cheetham, Sandra Edwards, Dorothy Cheetham, Elizabeth Price, Prue Short.
Front row left - right: Ronnie Slobin, unknown 26, Les Bolton, Frank Lawson, unknown 29.
(Photo courtesy - David Lindon Rimmer).
Methodist Primary School, c1954.
Back row left - right: David Edgely. Barry Dutton, David Rimmer, Raymond Winrow, Gerald Gudgeon, Gerald Gibbons, Peter Orritt, unknown 8, Philip Caunce, Alan Gott, John Stringman, unknown 12, Mr Bromley (teacher).
Middle row left - right: Roy Cottam, Christine Brown, Ruth Bryce, Margaret Twist, Cynthia Dutton, Pat Bimpson, Betty Parr, Kathleen Caunce, Linda Price, Jean Aspinall, Dorothy Cheetham, Jean Winrow, Alan Pye.
Front row left - right: Frank Lawson, Ronnie Slobin, Margaret Iddon, Ann Flavell, unknown 31, Sheila Molyneaux, unknown 33, Prudence Short, Jean Jones, Roy Walsh, Les Bolton.
(Photo courtesy - David Lindon Rimmer).