The following photos were sent in by Ian Knight and are reproduced with his permission. He has given me all the names that he has gathered and would like to know if anyone can identify the missing children.
Legend
* Agree that the person is the same in each photo so marked
* people at centenary also thought this was the name.
1953
Ian Knight’s 1953 photo (above)
Back:- 1 boy 2 Eric Jacobsen 3 Ray Pottinger* 4 John Rout** 5 Geoff Heatley** 6 boy 7 boy 8 boy 9 Bob Turner
3rd:– 1 boy 2 boy 3 boy 4 boy 5 Andrew George* 6 Ian Rowe* 7 Gordon Thompson** 8 John Truman** 9 boy 10 Ian Knight
2nd:- 1 Elvie Jordan 2 Margaret Yates of 5/6 R2 8 3 Marguritte Whitchurch* 4 Yvonne Murray Gwen Murray 5 Jan Murray* 6 girl 7 Hazel Scattini 8 girl 9 Denise Christian** 10 Evelyn Martin**
Front:- 1 Trevor Pond 2 Barry Rowe? Robert Stevens 3 boy 4 Pat Allen 5 Barbara Dalson
6 Patricia Higgs* 7 Kaye Martin Sue Martin 8 boy 9 Graham McGarry 10 boy
1954
Bernie Boyland’s 1954 or 5 photo (above)
Back:- 1? 2 Jennifer Eade 3? 4 Kaye Wearne 5? 6? 7 Julie Thomas* 8 Margaret Foxton?*
9 Patricia Derrington* 10 Margaret Yates* 11 Elvie Jordan 12 Janet Adams*
3rd 1 Trevor Pond* 2? 3 Geoff Heatley* 4 Ray Pottinger 5 Ian Robartson
6 Robert Stevens* 7 Barry Rowe 8 Peter Grimm 9 Barry Southern* 10 Bill Oliver* 11 Graham Heppell
12 Bob Turner*
2nd 1 Joy Blacker 2 ? 3 Judy Simpson 4? 5 Patricia Hogan 6? 7 Beth Rogers*
8 Marguritte Whitchurch 9 Lynette Bennett 10 Evelyn Martin* 11 Susan Mann 12? 13 Patricia Higgs
Front 1Peter Krepp* 2 Geoff Higgs* 3 Bernie Boyland 4 ? 5 Ron Emmerson 6 Andrew George 7 Barry Pippen 8 Graham McGarry 9 Ray Hammand 10 Alan Mathews 11 John Truman* 12 Ian Rowe*
1955-6
Ian Knight’s 1955 or 56 photo (above)
Back 1 boy 2 boy 3 Karen Murray, 4 girls
? Murray 5 Janice Jacobsen 6 girl 7 Dawn O’Brien 8 Margaret Foxton 9 boy 10 Harry Taylor
3rd:- 1 Coral Thornton 2 Anderson twin 3 boy 4 Eric Jacobsen 5 Tom Dimer 6 Wade Fry*
7 Derridge 8 M 9 boy 10 ? Murray Phylis Scattini 11 Denise Christian**
2nd:- 1 Alan Hewitt 2 Ian Stoddart 3 Pat Allen 4 Janice Murray * 5 Erris Terrel 6 girl 7 Joan Wells 8 Margaret Yates? 9 boy 10 John Rout**
Front:- 1 Doug Peters 2 Alan Woods** 3 Trevor Prideaux** 4 Robert Hall 5 6 Ian Knight 7 Gordon Thompson** 8 Kerry Dyer 9 Kevin Dyer 10 Ronnie Spence
1957
Bernie Boyland’s – 1957 photo with teacher Mr Carrigg (above)
Back:- 1 Sue Martin 2 Barbara Lowick 3 Jennifer Baur? 4 Barry Southern* 5 Eric Jacobsen 6 Tom Vranges
7 Ian Knight 8 Ian Robartson 9 Robert Turner* 10 Julie Thomas* 11 Jennifer Eade 12 Janet Adams*
Middle:- 1 Robert Stevens* 2 Ray Neville 3 Patricia Derrington* 4 Wade Fry* 5 girl 6 ? Vranges
7 Michael Merkel 8 girl 9 girl 10 Roslyn Ruly 11 Tom Dimer* 12 Margaret Yates* 13 ? Barnes
14 Colin Banfield 15 Geoff Heatley*
Front:- 1 Denise Christian* 2 Judy Hawke 3 Geoff Higgs* 4 Peter Krepp* 5 Trevor Prideaux*
6 Faye Wake 7 Yvonne Murray 8 Diedre Waller 9 Beth Rogers* 10 Lindsay Huntley
11 Alan Woods* 12 Bernie Boylan 13 Bill Oliver* 14 Jan Murray
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They are just lovely photos