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A panoramic school photograph of Ernest Bailey Grammar School pupils taken at the end of the Summer Term in 1947.
-- | = no name at present


Image 1. The Headmaster, Mr. B. C. Orme, is in the centre of the photograph.

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EGBS staff listed in 1945


  • Male Staff (seated), taking all names from Mr. B. C. Orme, Headmaster:
    Ewart W. Dredge, Sen. Master | F. Wagstaffe | W. E. Ridge | G. Van Raalte | Rev. W Thompson | W. George | H. Wildgoose | ? Ellis |

  • Female Staff (seated), taking all names from Mr. B. C. Orme, Headmaster:
    Miss Eastwood, Sen. Mistress | Miss (Anne) Crossley who taught French | Mrs. Lowe | Miss Brennan | Miss Bailey | Mrs. Beynon | Miss Greenall | Miss Parrish |

  • Pupils (male), back row - going from centre: -- | -- | -- | -- | T Smith | K Rigby | -- | -- | -- | R Standen | Keith Beardow |

  • Pupils (male), 2nd row from back - going from centre:
    Ian Morton | Colin Greatorex | Michael Maltby | Brian Hibbs | Peter Espig | John Hickman | Bernard Gale | Max Holmes | Bill Alley | John Walker | - Knowles | Frank Hardy | N Ollerenshaw

  • Pupils (male), 3rd row from back - going from centre:
    - Standen | Gregory | Bill Wass | -- | Alan Wragg | Lewis Finney | - Hole | -- | -- | -- | -- | [last four include David Gregory | ? Statham | Tony Bond]

  • Pupils (male), 4th row from back - going from centre:
    -- | -- | Harry Ellis | John Hancock -- | -- | -- | -- |

  • Pupils (male), 5th row from back - going from centre:
    Eric Brassington (between Messrs Orme and Dredge) | -- | -- | Owen Moore | Brian Wilson | David Cobb | John Upton |

  • Pupils (male), with legs crossed, sitting on the ground - going from centre to the right
    Jimmy Page | Albert John Cooke | Owen Griffiths | Ian Shaw | Alan Henstock | Jimmy Manknell | Jimmy Neville | -- |

  • Pupils (female), back row - going from centre:
    Josie Palk? | -- | Barbara Measham | Sally Flower | Hilda Gibson | -- | Maureen Jepson | Sheila Wright? | -- | -- |

  • Pupils (female), 2nd row from back - going from centre::
    Margaret Muir | Margaret Greatorex | -- | -- | Kathleen Chadwick? | Gilliam Varnham | Sheila Wright? | Eileen Dimbleby | June Moseley | -- | Peggy Jackson | -- |

  • Pupils (female), 3rd row from back - going from centre:
    -- | Margaret Fox | -- | -- | Margaret Collins | -- | -- | -- | Margaret Jolly | Faye Farnsworth | Audrey Slater | Mary Miller |

  • Pupils (female), 4th row from back - going from centre:
    Kathleen Chadwick? | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Enid Henshaw | -- |

  • Pupils (female), with legs crossed, sitting on the ground - going from centre to the left
    Brenda Soppitt | Pam Wilde | Joy Stone | Ann Beastall | Ann Bagshaw | Ann Gilman | Jennifer Wall | Bridget Holmes |



Image 2. Girl pupils, with some of the female staff

  • Pupils (female), back row - going from centre to the left:
    -- | -- | -- | ? Winder | Sybil Wright | Jaqueline Baum | Heather Marsden? | Ida Phillips | -- | -- | Bridget Wagstaffe | -- | Betty Gaythorpe | Margaret Jepson? | -- | Jean Boffey | Pamela Barker | Pam Glover | June Sewell [where was Betty Slack?]

  • Pupils (female), 1st Row from back
    Bernice Slater | -- | Margaret Kenworthy | -- | Shirley ? | -- | -- | Ann/Joan Crofts | Margaret Fearn | -- | -- | Eileen Baker | -- | -- | June Corrall | Barbara Dimbleby | Audrey Andrews

  • Pupils (female), 2nd row from back, from the centre
    Joan Simcock | Joan Shimwell | Barbara Lomas | --- | --- | --- | Brenda Petts | --- | --- | Mary Miller | Elizabeth Winder | Joy Whitworth | June Allison | Winnie Owen | -- | Val Hursthouse | Ann Radford [are Jean Carson, Kathleen Chadwick and Sheila Doxey on this row?]

  • Pupils (female), 3rd row from back
    Margaret Doxey | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | Muriel Smith | ? Caufield | Shirley Froggatt | Janet Shorthose | Glenys Else | -- |


  • Staff and Pupils (female), seated:
    Miss Parrish | Joy Lill, head girl (second from right) | Edna Shinwell | Gillian Brown? | June Tindall | Margaret Smith | rest unknown [the girls in this row who are wearing darker dresses are all likely to have been prefects]

  • Pupils (female), sitting on the ground - going from centre to the left:
    Janice Young | Mary Locke | Ann Stone | Mavis/Joyce Eaton | Ann Attwater | Eleanor Gibson | Margaret Sanders | Daphne Stevens | Bridget Holmes | -- | -- | -- | -- | Beastall | Joy Stone | Pam Wild | Brenda Soppit | [9th girl from centre is Janet Young -unsure if she is on this image or 9th from the centre , and on this row, in the top image]



3. Boy pupils, with some of the male staff

  • Pupils (male), back row - going from centre to right:
  • 1-3 on named top picture | Dakin | Harry Daniels | -- | John Hooton | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | J Hole | -- | W Griffiths

  • Pupils (male), 2nd row from back - going from centre to right:
    Pupils 1-3 see top picture | Michael Slater | Brian Hobbs | Ivan Lane | John Noton | - Allsop | Neil Kerr | Bill Bradbury | Joe Hole | Ray Howes | Ian Howes | - Eaton | - Stonall | John Newall | -- | Ian Howes

  • Pupils (male), 3rd Row from back - going from centre to right:
    Pupils 1-3 see top picture | Phil Wigfull | Ken Brailsford | Peter Ball | John Humphries | -- | John Millington | -- | -- | Peter Fearn | Roy Gratton | Geoff Holland | Ian Callard | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- |

  • Pupils (male), 4th row from back - going from centre to right:
    -- | -- | Graham Ellis | John Hancock | -- | -- | Roger Bawcutt | -- | -- | -- | -- | John Billingham | Keith Gregory | ? Lomas | -- [no others on this row]

  • Pupils (male), 5th row from back - going from centre to right:
    -- | -- | Roland Atkinson | Owen Moore | Brian Wilson | -- | -- | -- | David Crapper | -- | ? Carson | Hooton | -- | Griffiths | -- | Brian Whibberley | -- | -- | Bill Limb | -- | -- | -- | -- | -- | David Ollerenshaw

  • 2 Staff and Pupils (male), seated - going from centre to right:
    ? Ellis (staff) | W. E. (Bill) Allen (staff) | Doug Tembey (headboy) | Michael Ollerenshaw | Mike Lomas | Danny Corfield | Geoff Wildgoose | Bill Bowler | - Crabtree | -- | John Hunting[don] | Geoffrey Bawcutt | R Tuffin | -- | - Ballington | -- | -- |

  • Pupils (male), short row, sitting on the ground - going from centre to right:
    -- | Gallimore | -- | Barry Kay | rest -- |

  • Pupils (male), with legs crossed, sitting on the ground - going from centre to right:
    -- | Alan Shore | Ron Duggins (immediately in front of Doug Tembey) | David Brimble | Brian Phillips | Michael Summerfield | Michael Oldfield | -- | John Bishop [Barker?] | David Whitworth | Tony Briddon | Joe Smith | David Everett | Barry McKay | Malcolm MacFaddien |


Please note that until more pupils are named, only the names of members of staff are included in Find a Name. Please let Ann know if any are wrongly identified or if you recognise anyone else.

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Photograph by Panorama Ltd., London WC1. Photograph provided by and Copyright © Bernard Gale. Bernard and Eric Brassington also supplied names.
Additional names from Phil Wigfull, (2020) Albert John Cooke and Val Hursthouse, with grateful thanks to all five.
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