Rushden Research Group: Newton Rd Junior School Gallery

c1902/3

c1904 Standard VII

by checking with the 1901 census, enables us to date this photo as c1904 and
as Mrs Nash left on 1904 we assume the one above to earlier.

back: Mrs Nash, Hilda Beeby, Oscar Ayres, Frances Hooton, Percy Wilks, John Sherwood,
Frank Hensman, Frances Neal, James Gross, Lily Cumperpatch, Miss Lea.

2nd row: Horace Weekley, Winnie Bennett, Frank Thurlow, Evelyn Endersby, Ted Mackness, Evelyn Harlow, … Edwards, Doris? Moon, Harry Johnson.

3rd row: Rob Paragreen, --, --, Frances Wrighton, Lizzie Line & brother Robert Line,
Maud Parker, --, May Percival.

front: Harold Chubb, H… P…., Frank Percival, Walter Pack, Cecil Clark,
Walter? Seamark, Ralph James.

c1908 Standard V

1909-10 Standards VI and VII

This photograph came dated 'about 1922' - D4 No.9 - but this time with a caption!
Perhaps found to show at the centenary celebrations in 1995
Notice the clock, the lighting, and the back window appears to have a mesh screen.
The master has drawn maps of the world on the long blackboard.

Mixed School about 1922 – teacher Jimmy Reynolds – not shown

Back row l-r: May Allen, Nellie Ayres, ?, Edna Wooding, Phyllis Blackwell, Nellie Smart,
Margaret ?, ? Wallis.

Row 2: Edith Chettle, Edna Martin, Muriel Corby, Freda Corby, Win Gell, Win Wilson, Marjorie Woods.

Row 3: Reg Wilmer, Ron Hinson, Dorothy Dicks, Ann Reeves, Ada Bates, Ivy Seamarks,
Grace Wiggington, Mabel Gell.

Row 4: Ernest Edwards, Frank Edwards, George Byford, Fred Jaques, Sid Stocker, Bernard Dunkley, Edward Hodgkins.

Front: Walter Wood, Ray Cooper, Reg Noble, Ray Safford, Charlie Underwood, Ernest Newell,
Thomas Muxlow.

This series are undated.

Marked Group 2 on the blackboard - D4 No.5 on the photograph
The desks are in banks of four, with five children to most, and have ink wells.

D4 No.2 on the photograph (possibly 1925?)
The display cases behind the teacher, and along the back wall above the doors contain stuffed birds

D5 No.6 on the photograph (possibly 1925?)
No ink wells - there is a pile of slates far left
Along the back wall rows of cloth pockets (in eights) each with several cards

Detail from picture of above: The class are making 'spinners', several have an 'oxo' tin, and what appears to be two boxes on top of two pieces of board are centre of the desktops. They each have a board in front of them on which to work.

The Maypole celebration at Newton Road School 1934