1950s

Memories of Stanmore - Greg Green

The Class of 57 – Stanmore Primary School – final Primary year – Miss Glover’s class

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

  1. James Spratt

  2. Michael Newell

  3. Keith Reade

  4. Michael New

  5. Robert Ellis

  6. Christine Stanford

  7. David Reece

  8. Graham Bushby

  9. Colin Chapman

  10. Anthony Milgate

  11. Christopher Perry

  12. Trudy Chandler

  13. Jean Harbut

  14. Valerie Walker

  15. Susan Hutchins

  16. Jennifer Painter

  17. Valerie Northgate

  18. Christine Strong

  19. Michael Edwards

  20. Diane Lockyer

  21. Janet Scorey

  22. Dawn Williams

  23. Gillian Waterer

  24. John Poole

  25. Diane Johnstone

  26. Molly Hill

  27. Marilyn Bignall

  28. Deidre Denham

  29. Rosemary Negus

  30. Marian Hyde

  31. Pauline Longlands

  32. Penelope Hudd

  33. Jill Emery

  34. Gary Ruffell

  35. Barry Jenkins

  36. David Joyce

  37. Gregory Green

  38. Michael Moss

  39. Robert Cousins

  40. Susan Clarke

  41. Gillian Miller

  42. Miranda Hinton

Missing Paul Tarrant

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.

Stanmore Junior School Choir c1957

Were you in the school choir in 1957? Do you recognise anyone in the photo below?

  1. David Waldren

  2. Renny Waygood

  3. Ruth Hopwood

  4. Ann Shortland

  5. ?

  6. Janet(?) Nelson

  7. Susan Goodall

  8. Shirley Cox

  9. Nigel Sacree

  10. John Miller

  11. David Harder

  12. Colin Pickett

  13. John Bishop

  14. Mr R E King (Headmaster)

  15. Kill Miles

  16. Helen Starr

  17. Caroline or Carolyn Haynes

  18. Valerie Heanes

  19. Jane Lahey or Leahy

  20. ?

  21. Rosemary Horness

  22. Peter Clark

  23. Malcolm Pearson

  24. David Stuart

  25. Howard Jerram or Jerome

  26. John Mariner

  27. Roberta (Bobby) Dunbar

  28. Caroline Lugg

  29. Diane Jarvis

  30. Margaret Hennin

  31. ?

  32. Teresa Cozens

  33. ? Macklin

  34. ?

  35. Jennifer Pendreigh

  36. Linda Edwards?

  37. Janet Malt

  38. Ann Richards

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

Coronation Pageant Souvenir Programme
June 153

A photo of the Coronation Pageant June 1953 stuck at the back of the programme

A photo of the Coronation Pageant June 1953 stuck at the back of the programme

The Queen visiting Winchester on 26 July 1955

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?

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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.

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.

Stanmore Mayfair 1957
Radio celebrity “Grace Archer” crowns the May Queen.

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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…

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.

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Staff photos - donated by the family of Mrs Molly Cooper

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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 photoBack row - ?, ?, ?, ?, Miss Clarke, Mr Wolloughby, Mr Chipperfield Front row - Mrs Blake, Miss Glover, Miss Percival, Mr King, Mrs Cooper, Miss Brown, Mrs Green

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

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Memories of Stanmore School 1949 - 1951 by Rod Youngman

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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!

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