Barnes Road School
Last updated on 5th November, 2010 @ 14:57.
The photo BRS 13 is dated approx 1911 (this is assuming that it was taken when the children were 12 and due to leave school) My Grandmother Catherine Phillipson later Pennington of Sandy Lane is in the second row from the rear second from the right I was recently sent a copy of this by my cousin
Barnes Road School has a good selection of class photos albeit with the odd interloper (eg P4 5/21). Clearly some of the photos must early 20th century judging by the childrens` dress and few of the pupils will be known today. What I find particularlly sad is the lack of response to the photos of classes that are still within living memory.
To me a photo without names could easily be from any school in the country and of no great interest but when I look at the newspaper cutting on P4 (14/21) where the names are given then it is a completely different proposition. Although I didn`t go to Barnes Road school I did go to Skem Sec. and looking more closely at pupils I would only have glanced at, I can then recognise then even though they are younger that when I knew them.
So come on Barnes Road pupils let`s put some names and dates on the class photos. With a bit of luck it could generate a great deal of interest. Anyone who thinks it unlikely and not worth the trouble should consider how the “Edith Coombe gallery” came to be added to the site.