Mr York was known for his expression “My boy (or girl) You’re as dim as a Toc H lamp”.
Mrs Skinner was a strict disciplinarian, but a very good teacher. Nobody, but nobody failed their School Certificate in French Oral or Written.
Muriel Maddock trained as a teacher, and taught at Bude Primary School for many years. She never married. Was easily recognised as she drove a snazzy red sports car!
Tom Eddy was awarded a special prize for never being late and never missing a day’s schooling. It should be noted that he lived just a few yards down Bramble Hill!
Fred Crothers joined the RAF, and I understand was shot down and killed early in the war.
Ken Flower was of Cornish extraction, and worked for H.M.Customs. Later he became CIO to Ian Smith during the Rhodesia/Zimbabwe change. He wrote several books, including “Serving Secretly”. He died in 1987.
I have just (beginning of May 2015) read the “Looking Back” column in the Cornish and Devon Post, and under “70 years ago, April 28th 1945” it says “Among local POWs freed by the advancing Allied Armies in Europe,are Warrant Officer T.B.D. Eddy of Bude. I don’t know if he is the one in the school photo.
BACK ROW: UK1, UK2, Llewellyn Sandercock, Finnamore Jewell, Gerald Medland, UK6, UK7, UK8, UK9, UK10, UK11, UK12, UK13, Ken Rogers, UK15, UK16, Ken Flower, UK18, UK19, Muriel Maddock, Margaret Rose, Dorothy Pearsall, UK23, UK24, Jean Hambly, Bernice Tape, Barbara Parsons, Margaret Allen? Flora Greenaway, Marie Ward, Pearl Flower, Margaret Lock, Barbara Carthew, Mary Vivian, UK35, Barbara Trewin, UK37, Celia Petvin, UK39, Ruth Sampson, Mary Petherick, Christine Bennett?
THIRD ROW: Alan Petherick, UK2, UK3, Jack Pickard, UK5, Alan Walter? Derek Longmore? UK8, UK9, UK10, UK11, UK12, UK13, UK14, UK15, UK16, Norman Rowe, UK18, George Tape, Edna Bray, Rachel Worsley? Freda Batten, UK23, UK24, Annie Prouse, Barbara Tozer, UK27, Joan Francis, Barbara Petherick, Eileen Beasley, UK31, UK32, Beryl Gregory, UK34, Barbara Oxenberry, Eva Tuffery, Marjorie Taylor, Muriel Selby, Joyce Mountjoy, Dorothy Reynolds?
SECOND ROW: Robert Hines, UK2, UK3, UK4, Tom Keat, Fred Crothers, Leonard Ward, Ken Whately, Tom Eddy, Cyril Pearsall, Edgar Barrett, Charles Clowes, Edgar? Dawe, Mr Eddy (Maths), Mr White (Science & Biology), Mr York (Geography), Mr Wright (Headmaster), Mrs Skinner (Headmistress, French and Singing), Miss Trott( History, RE, and played the piano for assemblies and singing lessons), Miss Cooper (English, PE and games), Ethel Vickery, Betty Newman, Ruth Durston, Jean Petherick, Barbara Daniels, UK26, Carol Piper,* Jean Walter, UK29, Val Williams, Margaret Truscott ? UK32
FRONT ROW: Mary Parkhouse, Margaret Clowes, Margaret Wickett, Helen York, Joyce Cann, Marjorie Petherick, Jean Moyse, Emlyn Colwill, May Mossman, Betty Colwill, Stella White.
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