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