Bells Grammar School pupils 1951

Festival of Britain

Courtesy of: Bells Grammar School Association. Uploaded: July 2010.

A Bells Grammar School trip to the Festival of Britain

Driver at rear.
Back.1. Mr Leaning, Headmaster 2. Miss Molly Butterworth, Art, 3. Miss Evans, French, 4. Mrs Leaning. 5. Gwyn Turner, 6 David Simmonds?, 7 John Harvey, 8 John Sterrett, 9 Monica Biggins, 10 Gillian Parry, 11 Pam Edmunds, 12 Ann Ricketts, 13 John Ricketts, 14 Jim Pritchard, 15,16,17,18,19,20,21.
Front 1. John Nash, 2. John Leaning, 3? 4. Peter Hunt. 5. hidden 6 first girl sitting on suitcase - Janet Aston, 7?, 8. Ian Thomas, 9. Ann Simmonds, 10. Valerie Jenkins, 11. Elizabeth Jones.

John Ricketts added (July 2010): "... We also visited Kew Gardens and the big West End stores. Good to note that Bells in the Forest was undertaking residential educational visits 4 decades before they were introduced into the National Curriculum!".

Thanks also to John Ricketts, Gill Knowles and Clive Malsom.

The photo was taken outside the White Hart, Coleford by photographer Gerald Smith.


If you wish to comment on this photo or can supply names of people please click here Click here to send in information
WANTED: Old photos, old postcards, ephemera and memories of the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. U.K.