Photos and messages from people who attended UGS in the fifties.
U.G.S…….Sept.1951…….Class..2R
BACK ROW - 1.Anon..2.Peter Henshall..3.Joe Leach..4.Dave Whitfield..5.Gerald Atkinson. 6.Graham Blackledge..7.Bill Ashcroft..8.Roy Watt..9.Peter Ratcliffe..10.Mike Woods MIDDLE ROW- 1.James Aspinall..2.Malcolm Pennington..3.Kay Balmforth..4.Beryl Wilson.. 5.Josie Gerard..6.Rita Smith..7.Joan Baybutt..8.Brenda Grice. 9.David Parkinson..10Alan Miller FRONT ROW - 1.Barbara Gore..2.Barbara Taylor..3.Pauline Bradbury..4.Sylvia Lang..5.Olwyn Gore 6.George Galloway..7.Rosie Gaskell..8.Joan Frodsham..9.Kathleen Ashall. 10.Brenda Marsh..11.Brenda Rowley
( Photo courtesy of Mike Woods who is no,10 on the back row and married to Barbara (Gore) who is no.1 on the front row. They were married 10 years and 3 months after the picture was taken and celebrate their Golden Wedding on 30 December 2011. )
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Form 2 A – Sept. 1951
Back Row :- John Macaulay; Michael Bath; Brian Darbyshire; Bill Thompson; Tony Berry; Peter Lester; Graham Smith; Keith Myers; Norman Yates.
Middle Row :- Margaret Ralphson; Eileen Holland; Geoff Alker; John Beesley; John Crewe; Charlie Mather; David Arrowsmith; Brian Houghton; Ena Jones; Hillary Bartholomew.
Front Row :- Doris Moss; Ellen Clarkson; [ ?????? ]; Norma Williams; Barbara Marshall; Miss Seddon ( Form Teacher ); Barbara Farrow; Gillian Robinson; Eve Anne Mawdesley; Irene Lockley; Sylvia Winnard. ( Names courtesy of Tony Berry )
1st Formers 1956
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Received from Joan Harrison - I have put this bit together for the Mugs web-site. Although I was there before the 1960's. I am still in touch with four from my time there.
Joan Harrison [ nee Shrigley ]. U.G.S. , Wolfe House.
Part in School play " The Pirates of Penzance" by Mr. Studdart.
Discarded for choir by Mr. George Galloway.
Loved Hockey and Athletics under Miss Marsh. Loved History and Art. Hopeless at Maths. Loved French.
In a test Mr. Studdert once gave me 10 out of a hundred, and said that was for writing my name and the date correctly in English !!
Does anyone remember Dr. Muhlen ? Struck fear into every French Lesson.
Favourite saying:- " Suivant continue " accompanied by a rap on the knuckles with a ruler.
Favourite teachers:-
Mr. J.J. Bagley History.
Mr. Boddy History.
Miss Gair Art.
Mr. Kilner History.
Miss Marsh P.E. [ married the Science Teacher Mr.? ]
Miss Penman Biology.
Miss Stephenson English.
Mr. Studdart, Latin.
One of the best periods in my life.
Favourite memory:- Miss Goode standing in to take us for a Latin lesson in 3rd. Form. Asked a boy to conjugate the verb Mittere.
He got as far as Mittimus, and then hesitated and stuttered - upon which Miss Godde said firmly " Mittitis boy, mittitis, spit it out. "
And we did'n't dare snigger.
Went on to Teacher Training College.
Subjects :- Physical Training and Rural Science. [ consisted of leaping about in the bushes ! ].
Taught P.E. in Girls' Secondary Modern.
Taught Human Biology and Art to exam level in an Approved School for teenage girls.
Retired defeated !! "
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UGS Tour to Austria 1958
Back Row L-R, Jimmy Barton, Susan King, Malcolm Ashcroft, Eileen Dowding Front - Eyrol James
Back Row L-R, - Susan King, Gillian Gore, Eileen Dowding, Shelia Appleton, Jean Ormesher, Pauline Marsh, James Barton, Malcolm Ashcroft. Front Row L- R, - Burt Roper, Peter England, David Knott, Frank Anderton, Alan Foy.
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"Anthony and Cleopatra" 1959
Back Row L-R, - John Done, Leonard Taylor, Jackie Langton. Front Row L-R, - James Banks, Ellis Cheetham, Jim Bamforth, Malcolm McDonald, Gillian Gore, Jeffrey Price, Kenneth Tacey, Sheila Appleton, Eric Wilkinson, David Knowles, Keith Ashcroft.
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Cast of the Bluebird
Back Row L-R, - ?, ?, ?, Rosamund Barnes, Michael Hampson, ?, ?, Christine Claxton, Jean Silcock. Front Row L-R, - Peter Worthington, Philip Knowles.
Information on Bluebird from Philip Knowles - Bluebird April 17th and 18th 1959. I have a copy of the school magazine for the Spring Term of 1960 and it has a picture of a scene from the play.
You would not believe the review written by 'RAFS'. Approximately 1500 words long it not only mentions the actors, sets, costumes etc. but includes a literary analysis of the play and its nuances which I didn't understand in 1960 and I am no wiser on reading it again.
He describes my performance thus;-- 'These two (referring to David Hampson and Rosamund Barnes as Tyltyl and Myltyl the leads), hardly off the stage during all six acts, gave an exhibition of stamina and sustained effort which was only rivalled , even out done, by the unquenchable mischief of the cat played by Peter Worthington with what was nothing short of virtuosity, and the unshakeable, except for a brief lapse among the fleshpots in the garden of Happiness , loyalty to Man of the Dog, played with rombustious, gambolling gusto by Philip Knowles.
He describes the set as 'To Miss Finney and her scholars of Art is due unstinted praise. As scene after scene and set after set broke upon the eye, even the meanest amateur of Art must have felt his pulse stir; for here was a kind of artist's notebook spanning the whole panorama of Western Culture in this sort: the draperies of Classicism with the Joys, Grundwald's barbaric wilderness in the Forest; Watt's Romanticism in the Palace of Night; Table of luxury out of Brughel; Dutch interiors in the Cottage; Holman Hunt and the pre Raphaelites in the Graveyard; a David canvass in the struggle of the trees; the stark ,modernistic austerity of the Kingdom of the Future; Waltean and Fragonard in the Garden of Happiness; and in the charming dance there luring one to quote the song 'Thank Heaven for little girls', Boucher purified. All this and more besides. Nor was this a jumble of jottings. Each scene had its own validity; all were integrated into the wholeness of the fantasy.'
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Anyone recognise these two UGS girls from the fifties?
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Received feedback from Brenda Lorimer - Name : Brenda Lorimer nee Marsh - : I attended Up Holland Grammar School from 1950 - 1955. I began at the old school in 1950 and we moved to the new school in Winstanley Road approximately 2 years later. I would love to hear from anyone who was there at that time.
Email received from John Gaskell - Comments : anyone out there living from the 47 to 53 epoch? i would be pleased to receive news and photos. not to worry my heart is in good condition.