Bells School 1961
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Many thanks to Janet Dowle, Alan Walker, May Brace, Roger Lonnkvist, Steve and Anne Papworth, Chris Morgan, Peter Teague, Christopher Dent, John Parry and Dave Nash for helping with the names.
Row 6:
1 Nigel
Watts (Coleford), 2 Brian Martin (Sling), 3 Mike Williams, 4 Tony Sanzen-Baker
(Parkend), 5 Roger Lonnkvist (Bream), 6 , 7 Paul Trim , 8 Barry Smith ,
9 Roger Morrel, 10 Melvyn
Whittington , 11 Adrian Margerison, 12
Lyndon Morgan , 13 Michael Davis , 14 , 15 Gary Short (Parkend) , 16 , 17 Leslie Hinton,
18
,
19 Andrew Edwards from Lydbrook,
20
, 21
, 22 Robert Ricketts, 23 Stuart Hughes played guitar in a group, 24 Roger Long, (Girls) 25
Anne Sleeman,
26 (Joy Morgan?), 27 Judith (Ellway?), 28 Heather Bell, 29 Brenda Simmons,
(Girls) 30 Georgina Williams, 31 , 32 Vanetta Harries , 33 Judith (Elsmore?),
34 Isobel Sanzen-Baker, 35 Betty Frazier, 36 , 37 Gillian Poulton ,
38 Helen Farr , 39 May Williams, 40 Maureen Bessant, 41 , 42 Mary Spencer,
43 Rosita Palmizi , 44 , 45 (Patsy Hughes) , 46 Jenny Lane, 47 Janice
Watkins, 48 , 49 Ruth Howells , 50 .
Row 5: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 Carl Stafford,
5, 6 Christopher Morgan , 7 Barry Thomas , 8 Patrick Street, 9 (Lawrence?)
, 10 Patrick Gibbard
, 11 David Williams
, 12 Bessant , 13 , 14 , 15 Ablett ,
16 Keith Childs , 17 Brian
Lawrence
, 18 Robert Teague , 19 , 20 , 21 John Pritchard, 22 Keith
Hinton, 23 , 24 Andrew Tate, 25 , 26 Paul Hunt, 27 Rose, 28 Bill Jarvis, 29
, (Girls) 30 Celia Jones 31,
Sue Plant (Girls)
32 Janet Crote, 33 Josephine Smith from Newland, 34 Margaret Woodhead 35 Linda Childs 36 Jennifer Bradley, 37 Lynda Baker from Clearwell, 38 Brenda Tye, 39 Pamela Lee 40 Christine Tomlins 41 Ann Harris 42 Ann Davies 43
Brenda Phelps 44 Susan Coombs 45 Diana Teague, 46
Elizabeth Nash (whose nickname was Jolie), 47 Catherine Holden, 48 , 49 Jaqueline Williams, 50 Penelope Keene, 51 , 52 Lesley Aston,
53 Doreen Jones 54 Margaret Greenwood, 55, 56 Susan Raven , 57 (Susan Baldwin), 58 (Judy ..?) , 59 (Margaret
Williams?) .
Row 4: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6 (Keith Buffin?)
, 7 , 8 , 9 , 10, 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18 John Gillo , 19 ( _
Charles),
20 , 21 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 Julian Smith, 29 , 30 , 31Martin
Sleeman (Girls) 32 , 33 Jill Hoare, 34
, 35 , 36 , 37 , 38 , 39 , 40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 , 45 Susan Evans, 46 , 47
, 48 , 49 , 50 ,
51 , 52
, 53 , 54 ,
55, 56 , 57 , 58 , 59 , 60, 61 .
Row 3: 1 , 2 , Melvin Gunter? , 4 Eric Reddan , 5 Peter Ellway, 6 Trevor Wilce , 7
, 8 Terry Davies , 9 , 10 Cliff Street, 11 Brian Northcote, 12 Ronnie Irwin,
13 Gordon Lawrence , 14 Brian Cooper, 15 , 16 Alan Walker , 17 Dave Howells ,
18 , 19 Paul Whitfield ,20 Ken Merry , 21 Colin O'Dell, 22 Brian Barrett , 23 Robert Baldwin
, 24 , 25 Paul Howell ,
Robert Robinson , 27 Dave Edmunds , 28 Danny Crump, 29 David Little,30 Michael
Walters , 31 Ben Davis (Girls) 32 Jill Short, 33 Victoria Gwynne, 34
, 35 , 36 , 37 Margaret Powell, 38 Tana Shackell , 39 Valerie Aston,
40 , 41 , 42 , 43 , 44 Anita Hayward , 45 , 46 , 47 , 48 , 49 Sue Morse, 50
Rhonwyn Salmon, 51 , 52 , 53 Jane Grafton, 54 , 55 Janet Smith, 56 , 57 Barbara
Brown
, 58
, 59 , 60, 61, 62 Natalie Condor
.
Row 2A (part row of smaller boys): 1)Jeff Angove,
2 Gwyn Richards, 3 Alan Mark, 4 ?, 5 Philip Schwartz, 6 ?, 7 Robert Williams,
8 Roger Simmonds, 9 Michael Wintle, 10 Gerald Biddle, 11 Philip Jenkins, 12
David Byett, 13 John Parry , 14 David Wintle,15 Derek Donaldson,16 Michael
Hale,17 ?, 18 Harvey Jones,19 ?. , 20 , 21 , 22 , 23
.
Row 2: 1 Geoffrey Elsemore
, 2 John Collins
, 3 Hugh Johnson
, 4 Clive Vaughan
, 5 “Freddie” Gunter , 6 John Cox , 7 Peter Teague, 8 , 9 Peter
Wilcox, 10 Tony Prisk, 11 David Jayne, 12 Alistair Forbes, 13 Michael Cawley
, 14 Terry Whittington , 15 John Davies, 16 Robert Whittington, 17 Mr Malden,
18 Mr
Hancocks ?, 19 Mr Little , 20 Mr Jackson, 21 Mr Colin Evans, 22 Mr Roberts,
23 Mr
G Rawle , 24 Mr Davis , 25 Mr T Margerison,
26 "Caddy" Mr G M Quale, 27 Mr N Leaning (Headmaster), 28
Miss I Turner, 29 Mrs James, 30 Miss Ann Beaufoy, 31 Mrs Rollinson,
32 Miss Margaret Davis, 33 Mrs F E Buck, 34 Mrs Fennell (School Secretary)
, 35 Gill Meek, 36 Jean Lithaby , 37 , 38 , 39 Margaret Morgan , 40
, 41Margaret Wright , 42 Sally Luker, 43 Pam Squibbs , 44 , 45 ? Miles, 46
, 47 Elizabeth Harvey, 48 , 49 Margaret Gwilliam from Sling, 50 , 51 Dorothy Adams, 52 Ivy ? , 53 Margaret Gwynne from Bream now Morgan.
Row 1: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5, 6 Tina Turley, 7 , 8 ,
9 , 10 Anne Jenkins , 11 , 12 , 13 , 14 , 15 , 16 , 17 , 18
, 19 Christine Anne Gratton , 20 Gail Densley, 21 , 22 Alison Sanzen-Baker
, 23 Janice Powles, 24 Marguerite Trillo, 25 , 26 , 27 , 28 , 29 , 30
, 31 , 32 , 33 Carol
Reynolds, 34 , 35 Valerie Boycott, 36 , 37 , 38 ,
39 , 40 , 41 Margaret Fowler, 42 Joyce Mullins, 43 Anne Aston, 44 Anne
Russell, 45 , 46 Doreen Howells .
Susan Evans (in row 4 and 45 from the left)
would like to get in touch with Maureen Cole, Maureen Lambert or June
Williams.
Thanks also to Cliff Street, Tina Adamson (nee Turley) and Anita Burke
(nee Hayward) Margaret Woodhead (now Fisher).and to Dave
Morris for
the following :
Centre Mr Leaning Headmaster, On the right The Headmistress. She taught
Chemistry, On the left Mr Qaule (not sure of spelling) His nickname was
Caddy he always wore Plus Fours Golfing trousers.He taught Science. He
originated from the Isle of Man. Next to him Mr Margharrison
Thanks to Tana Burdon who also added (Jan 2008): "The head Mistress was
called Winifred Turner she was a female Deacon in the Church of England
and lived in Berry Hill".
Vanetta Harries added (November 2010): "... The physics teacher was Mr Quale (correct spelling). He was rather intimidating and we never ever misbehaved for him. We all took our education seriously with all the regular tests and exams being revised so we could get a decent result.
The annual Gilbert and Sullivan musicals were a highlight with the changerooms being a tight squeeze in the old town hall. We spent hours in rehearsals with Mr Margerison (correct spelling) taking on the role of director.
Perhaps there are photos in the newspaper archives or old school records of the performances.
I trained as a primary school teacher at Westhill College in Birmingham then flew to Australia where I taught for 25 years in Victoria. I taught at the zoo in Melbourne and at the childrens hospital then worked with adults with intellectual disabilities for 10 years. I now live in Hamilton Western Victoria. Im retired but spend a lot of my time volunteering within the community traveling gardening learning and teaching a variety of crafts and photography plus swimming which was always my preferred sport. We called the chemistry teacher Winnie. She always walked at a fast trot with her cape flying. I think she was also a deaconess at the church...Rumour had it that she had been a missionary in darkest Africa".
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