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Memories of Stanmore - Greg Green

The Class of 57 – Stanmore Primary School – final Primary year – Miss Glover’s class

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

  1. James Spratt

  2. Michael Newell

  3. Keith Reade

  4. Michael New

  5. Robert Ellis

  6. Christine Stanford

  7. David Reece

  8. Graham Bushby

  9. Colin Chapman

  10. Anthony Milgate

  11. Christopher Perry

  12. Trudy Chandler

  13. Jean Harbut

  14. Valerie Walker

  15. Susan Hutchins

  16. Jennifer Painter

  17. Valerie Northgate

  18. Christine Strong

  19. Michael Edwards

  20. Diane Lockyer

  21. Janet Scorey

  22. Dawn Williams

  23. Gillian Waterer

  24. John Poole

  25. Diane Johnstone

  26. Molly Hill

  27. Marilyn Bignall

  28. Deidre Denham

  29. Rosemary Negus

  30. Marian Hyde

  31. Pauline Longlands

  32. Penelope Hudd

  33. Jill Emery

  34. Gary Ruffell

  35. Barry Jenkins

  36. David Joyce

  37. Gregory Green

  38. Michael Moss

  39. Robert Cousins

  40. Susan Clarke

  41. Gillian Miller

  42. Miranda Hinton

Missing Paul Tarrant

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