1967 (Above) Helmshore County Primary School 1967 ish (Click over photo to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly contributed by John Pilling and uploaded here on 27th Oct 2015
Helmshore CP School c1961 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dorothy Flynn and uploaded here on 14th March 2017
also filed under Helmshore CP School photo blog
Information kindly shared to us by Stephen Haines about his classmates in the photo:
Starting with the front row, the boy on the left is Peter
Edmundson. Peter had two older brothers,
John and Ian, and a younger sister called Janet and they lived on Broadway, in
the second house of the first semi as you turn left out of Brooklands Avenue. His father was called Ernest and he was a
butcher in Accrington, whilst his mother was Vera and she worked in the
research department at TMM, Wavell Mill, on Holcombe Road. They had a Rover 90 car, the biggest vehicle
in that part of the village, at a time when most families didn’t have cars.
The girl sat next to Peter is Susan Haygarth. She had an older brother called Brian and
they also lived on Broadway in a house before Devon Crescent is reached,
opposite what is now the High School.
Then it was fields. Next to Susan
is Martin Nuttall whose family lived on Helmshore Road. Theirs was the first house of the last semi
before you reach the drive into St Veronica’s church.
The girl in glasses on the left of the second row is Jacqueline Tremble,
who lived somewhere in the Lancaster / York Avenue area, and she is sitting
next to Robert Oldfield, often known as Ockey.
He had an older sister and they lived on Gregory Fold, in the last house
in the row of stone cottages opposite the primary school. His family often spoke of having seen or
heard apparitions and it was widely accepted that the house was haunted.
The boy poking his head from behind that of Susan is me, Stephen
Haines. At that time, I had a younger
brother called David – Stuart, the youngest, came along several years later –
and we lived in the terrace on Brooklands Avenue, at no. 12. My father was Arthur, who worked as a
conductor for the bus department of Haslingden Corporation. He had arrived in Haslingden in 1939 as a
war-time evacuee from Salford and his family followed him here a little
later. My mother, Marion, was a weaver
at Barlow’s Mill, off Holcombe Road, and her family had arrived here from
Blackburn in the mid-1930s.
The boy next to me was Philip Cheetham and I remember little about him
as he was not in the school long as his family out of the area. I cannot work out who the others in the
photograph are, though the girl at the very back, also in glasses, is I think
Dorothy Ratcliffe. If so, she is, again
I think, the person who posted this photo on the website. I think she lived on one of the streets right
off Lancaster Avenue, as you go up.
The school milk was always delivered to the Gregory Fold side of the
school and it was the job of the older boys, which we were not, to bring it
inside. I always preferred the milk in
winter, when it was cold. On really cold
days, such as during the harsh winter of 1963, the milk froze and we thought it
was like having ice cream. I summer it
was not so nice, as it was often warm and sometimes began to curdle.
Helmshore CP School c1964/65 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dorothy Flynn and uploaded here on 14th March 2017
also filed under Helmshore CP School photo blog
The following information is kindly shared to us by Stephen Haines one of the pupils in the above photo:
This is the same class as in the picture above, but
several years later. The teacher was Mr
Hartley and I don’t remember much about him other that he left the primary
school at the end of the school year and took a post at Haslingden Secondary
Modern School, where some of those in this picture would have re-encountered
him when they transferred there in 1966.
The boy at the left of the back row is Stefan
Koman. He had siblings and his family
lived on Broadway, in a house halfway up the hill, as the road rises after its
junction with Lancaster Avenue. His
father had arrived from Poland after the war and his mother was Jenny Walkden,
who had been a school friend of my mother’s.
Not long after this photo was taken, they moved to Accrington.
Next to Stefan is Richard West, who had an elder
sister and who lived on Holcombe Road, in a house on the left as you go towards
the Italian restaurant, then the White Horse.
I don’t know the boy next to him, but the fourth boy is Noel
Pilling. His family lived on York
Avenue, on the left near to its junction with Helmshore Road.
I am next to Noel and next to me is Martin
Nuttall. Next to Martin is Norman
Constantine. His family lived in one of
the stone cottages by the river at the end of the drive that runs alongside
Helmshore Memorial Gardens. I don’t
remember the name of the boy standing next to Norman.
The boy on the left of the middle row is Philip
Abbott, who had a sister and who lived on Somerset Walk, on the right as you go
up. Then comes Peter Edmundson and then
Alan Carr. Alan also had a sister and
his family ran Higher Cocker Farm, mainly dairy, but with a few pigs and
poultry. I remember the farm was a good
place to hang around on Fridays, as that was baking day and his mother made
fantastic cakes. Rossendale Golf Club
bought the farm soon after this picture was taken and they moved away.
The fourth boy on the row is Robert Oldfield and
next to him is Billy Hanson, the biggest boy in the class. His family lived near to the top of Granville
Street. Next to Billy is Paul Mellor,
who later became Paul Chadwick. He lived
somewhere in Flaxmoss, around Mayfield Avenue, and next to him is Tony Barnes. Tony lived on Helmshore Road, in a house
opposite St Veronica’s, and I remember that whenever Corgi brought out a new
model car, he was always the first to get it.
He was often to be seen racing his cars down the playground at the back
of the school.
The boy second from the right Kevin Kerr, whose
family lived on Devon Crescent and with whom I later played football for
Helmshore Youth. By then he’d acquired
the nickname Hector, presumably after the Derby County player. Last on the row is Johnny Smithson. He had a sister called Anne and his family
also lived on Holcombe Road, near to Richard West. His father worked at Higher Mill.
The girl on the left of the front row is Susan
Haygarth. Then comes Jackie Tremble and
next to her is Wendy Howarth. Her family
lived on Holcombe Road, somewhere opposite its junction with Bell Alley. I can’t remember the name of the girl fourth
on the row, though I think the fifth girl was called Jeanette, but I cannot
recall her surname.
The next girl is Dorothy Ratcliffe and then comes
Stephanie Knight. Her father was called
Ernie, who, like my father, worked for the Corporation. They lived in the Flaxmoss area. Next sits Carole Dowd, who lived in the
Lancaster Avenue area and next to her is Stephanie Watson. She had an elder brother called Graham and
they lived on Brooklands Avenue, on the right near its junction with Raven
Avenue. The family later moved out of
the area.
Second from right on that row is Carole Bond. She lived somewhere around Holcombe Road, in
the Higher Mill area, and her family moved to Blackburn sometime later. The last girl on the row is Carole
Beardsworth, though I can’t remember where she lived. (I hope I’ve spelled the Caroles correctly.)
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Helmshore CP School c1963 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dorothy Flynn and uploaded here on 14th March 2017
also filed under Helmshore CP School photo blog
Here below is information kindly shared with us by Stephen Haines (Pupil in the photo)
This is a photograph of our class when we were about eight years
old. The teacher was Mrs Pilling, who
was certainly a teacher of the old school.
I remember her as a formidable lady, quite strict, who would punish
misdemeanours with a ruler across the hand, and across the back of the legs for
greater crimes. I felt it on more than
one occasion. Yet, she knew how to
encourage her young charges. She had a
system of stars, used in other classes too, of various colours, the highest
valued being silver and gold and there was a healthy competition to try to
achieve them. I looked forwards to going
up to her class because we would begin subjects like history and
geography. At the time I’d no idea what
they were, but their mysterious, grown-up names sounded far more exciting than
the reading, writing and sums we did lower down the school. She was a brilliant teacher and I learned a
lot from her lessons. We had a reading
book that had vivid coloured drawings on one side and text on the other, and I
was so impressed that I got my mum to buy me a copy so that I could read it at
home. One of the things she got us to
read was extracts from the “Song of Hiawatha” by HW Longfellow. Hiawatha became one of my childhood heroes
and because of it I changed sides when watching Westerns. I began supporting the Indians and not the
Cowboys. I can’t imagine any teacher nowadays trying to
get eight-year-old pupils to read such challenging stuff. She did and, fifty-odd years later, I can
still recite chunks of it from memory.
That’s a good teacher.
To the class: back row, going
from left to right we have Stefan Koman, Noel Pilling, me, Richard West, Philip
Abbot and Norman Constantine. On the
second row is Peter Edmundson, Alan Carr, Paul Mellor, Tony Barnes, Billy Hanson,
Robert Oldfield, Martin Nuttall and James Walker. He doesn’t appear in the other photographs
that I’ve written about, but his family lived on Broadway, on the left-hand
side as you go up the hill from the junction with Lancaster Avenue. He became known as “Judd” and played in goal
for the Helmshore Youth football team I played in. Last on the row is Kevin Kerr.
The girl on the left of the front row is Stephanie Knight and next to
her is Susan Burke. She didn’t stay long
in the class with us, her family moving away, but at the time they lived on
Raven Avenue. Next to Susan is Wendy
Howarth and then comes Brenda Holden. Her
family lived, I think, in the Holcolme Road area of the village. Next is Dorothy Ratcliffe and I can’t
remember the name of the girl to her right, but she might have been called
Carole Busky. Then comes Carole
Beardsworth, Jeanette, whose surname I can’t recall, and Sheila Skupsky. She was another whose family moved out of the
area and didn’t stay long in the class.
Finally sits Anne Priddle. Anne
was one of a large family who lived in a big house on the corner of Mayfield
Avenue and Helmshore Road, in Flaxmoss.
Of the front five girls, Jackie Tremble is on the left. Then comes Carole Dowd, Stephanie Watson,
Carole Bond and Susan Haygarth. (Again,
I hope I’ve spelled the Caroles correctly.)
Helmshore CP School c1964 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dorothy Flynn and uploaded here on 14th March 2017
also filed under Helmshore CP School photo blog
(14th June 2018 - Memory notes kindly offered by Steve Haines (Pupil in the photo)
This photograph above is of our class a couple of years earlier than the one
above, so I guess we’d have been five or six years old. The teacher is Mrs Winstanley, who taught the
very early years’ class. I’d date this
picture around 1960.
Going from left to right on the
back row: I don’t remember the name of the boy standing next to Mrs Winstanley,
but stood next to him is Philip Abbott.
Then comes me (Steve Haines),Norman Constantine, Kevin Kerr, Richard
West and Stefan Koman.
On the second row of boys, stood on the floor and again going left to
right, are Noel Pilling, Johnny Smithson, Alan Carr, Tony Barnes, Paul Mellor,
and Robert Oldfield. I can’t recall the
name of the boy third from right, but next to him is Martin Nuttall and finally
comes Peter Edmunson. He was the younger
brother of Ian Edmunson, who has posted the next three photographs in the
series.
Of the girls seated on the third row, the first is Carole Dowd. I can’t remember the name of the next three
girls, but the girl fifth in the row is Jeanette, whose surname I’ve lost. Dorothy Ratcliffe is sixth in the row, next
to Brenda Holden, Sheila Skupsky, Wendy Howarth, Carole Beardsworth and
Stephanie Knight.
Stephanie Watson is the first of the girls kneeling at the front, on the
left. Next comes Anne Priddle, Susan
Haygarth, Jackie Tremble and Carole Bond.
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Helmshore County Primary School 1964 ish (Click over to enlarge)
Back Row: Stephen Greenwood, Alan Hollin, Alan Seville, ?,?, Craig Fleming, David Edney, Kenneth McWaters, Mrs. Winstanley.
3rd Row: Ian Edmundson, Dave Peddie, Alan Jepson, Harry Howard, Dave Ackroyd, Ian Yates, John Henney, Raymond Holden, Roy Gregory, Paul Duzzwick.
2nd Row: ?, Lynne Gregory, Susan Crankshaw, ?,?,?,?,Susan Gorton, ?,?, Linda Bradshaw, ?
Front Row: Ingrid Bentley, ?,?,?,?, Carol Wigston, Carole Oldham, Jane Kirk.
Photo: Kindly shared by Ian Edmundson and uploaded here on 15th March 2017
Also now archived in the Helmshore CP Photo Blog
Helmshore County Primary School 1964 ish (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Ian Edmundson and uploaded here on 15th March 2017
Also now archived in the Helmshore CP Photo Blog
Helmshore County Primary School 1964 ish (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Ian Edmundson and uploaded here on 15th March 2017
Also now archived in the Helmshore CP Photo Blog
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Helmshore CP School c1965 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared by Dorothy Flynn and uploaded here on 14th March 2017
also filed under Helmshore CP School photo blog
The following information is kindly supplied by Stephen Haines (Pupil) - 9th July 2018
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This is the first school photograph I ever had taken. It was taken outside the school gate, on
Gregory Fold in 1961, when we were five or six years old. I remember us being lined up on benches,
though the taller boys, in the middle row, had to stand. In those days, Gregory Fold had cobbles from
what was then the Big Tree, on its junction with Helmshore Road, to the end of
the school when it became a rough track that went down to Holcombe Road, at the
bottom. This picture was taken where the
rough track began. It is housing now,
but then behind the school was open fields sloping down to the river in the
valley below.
The teacher’s name was Mrs Pickup.
I remember her with great fondness, as she was a kindly lady who really
looked after us – or so it seemed to me.
She was the one who taught us how to read and write properly and I
remember her classroom had posters around the walls of all the letters we had
to make, with pictures showing something that began with that letter – A/a for
apple etc. She taught us numbers as well
and I remember she had a saying about the number 5, which she described as a
“big fat policeman with a hat on top”.
We had to do our writing in books in which each row had three
lines. We made the lower case letters
from the bottom line to that in the middle and the upper case ones to the line
at the top. This way we learned to make
our letters different sizes.
In the spring and summer, when the weather was nice, she’d take us on
nature walks up Musbury Valley and show us the different trees, flowers and
birds and tell us something about them. I
particularly remember her kindness when we had to go for our inoculations and
jabs. This was something that held us
young ones in trepidation and she used to bring in a tin full of what she called
toast, but I guess was some sort of homemade crisp bread. She’d tell us that, if we didn’t cry, we
could have some toast as a treat and she was good as her word. Even then, it seemed rare for a teacher to
bring in things to give the pupils, which is why it sticks out in my
memory. I remember resolutely trying to
fight back the tears so that I could get my hands on the toast, which always
seemed to taste so nice.
Next to Mrs Pickup, on the left of back row, is Stefan Koman. Next to him is Noel Pilling, then me, and I
don’t remember the name of the next boy.
The fifth boy on the row is Johnny Smithson, then comes Kevin Kerr,
Richard West, Norman Constantine, Philip Abbott and, finally, Peter Edmundson.
On the left of the middle row is Martin Nuttall. Next is Tony Barnes, Philip Cheatham, Alan
Carr, Billy Hanson, Robert Oldfield, Paul Mellor, James Walker and Eric Grey.
Of the girls, on the left is Stephanie Knight. I can’t remember the name of the next girl,
but the third girl in is Anne Priddle.
Next is Carole Beardsworth, Sheila Skupsky, Dorothy Ratcliffe, Brenda
Holden, Susan Haygarth, Stephanie Watson and, finally, Susan Burke.
Helmshore Primary School 1962 (Click over to enlarge)
Kindly contributed by John Edmundson
Helmshore Primary School
Kindly contributed by Mary Loy White
Helmshore Primary School, Helmshore c1960 (Please click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Dorothy Flynn on 13th March 2017
The following information is kindly given by Stephen Haines (pupil) and submitted here on 9th July 2018.
This is a photo of my class at the primary school, but before I joined
it. I joined the school at Easter in
1961, when I was four years old. I was
the youngest in my year group throughout my school career, both at primary and
secondary schools. The people in this
picture were in the class when I arrived and must have started in September of
1959. It is probably what would be today
known as the reception class.
I don’t remember the teacher. She
certainly didn’t teach me when I arrived.
I also don’t remember the girl next to her, but the second girl in from
the left is Carole Bond. Then comes
Dorothy Ratcliffe. I can’t remember the
fourth girl in the row, but next to her is Carole Beardsworth. Next to her is Brenda Holden and I can’t
recall the last girl in the row.
The first boy, on the left, is Norman Constantine. I don’t know the boy second in the row, but
third sits Alan Carr. Then is Billy
Hanson, Martin Nuttall, Philip Cheatham, but I can’t remember the name of the
last boy in the row.
Helmshore County Primary School 1953 or 1954
left side: front Brian Haworth, Peter Kay behind him and on right side David Pilling front,
Jeff Smith and Jimmy Peel, on the 2nd row and Janet Schofield behind them on third row
Photo: Kindly shared with us by Lorraine Brumpton
Helmshore County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Lorraine Brumpton
Helmshore County Primary School (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly shared to us by Lorraine Brumpton
Helmshore County Primary School c 1952-57 (Click over photo to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 22nd October 2015
Helmshore County Primary School c 1952-57 (Click over photo to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 22nd October 2015
Helmshore County Primary School c 1952-57 (Click over photo to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 22nd October 2015
Helmshore County Primary School c 1952-57 (Click over photo to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 21st October 2015
Helmshore County Primary School c 1952-57 (Click over photo to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Pauline Emmett Dagg and uploaded here on 21st October 2015
Haslingden County Primary School 1953/1954 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Ian Jefferson
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Ian Jefferson
Helmshore County Primary School c1954 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Dave Wise and uploaded here on 5th November 2015
Helmshore County Primary School c1959 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Dave Wise and uploaded here on 5th November 2015
Helmshore Council Infants c1912 (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Andy Metcalfe
Helmshore Council School 1880s (Click to enlarge)
Photo: kindly contributed by Andy Metcalfe
Helmshore Primary School. The Farnworth family. From the left : John (deceased) Jean, Susan and Thomas.
(Click over to enlarge) Photo: Kindly shared by Jean Smith on 25th April 2017
Helmshore County Primary School around 1955
Photo: Kindly shared by Jean Smith on 27th April 2017
Helmshore County Primary 1964 Soccer Team
Photo: Kindly shared by Jean Smith on 27th April 2017
Helmshore County Primary Gymnastics Team 1979 (Click over to enlarge)
Names offered and in no particular order: Tracy Durkin, Kerry Hackett, Louise Aitken, Tracy Best, Alison Gilmore, Susan Taylor, Stephanie Hampshaw, Katherine Pendlebury, Sarah Kay, Nicola Johnson.
Helmshore County Primary School Concert 1979 (Click over to enlarge)
Names offered in no particular order: Lee Wright, Justin Nicholls, Jonathan Kay, Frank Willis
Helmshore Primary School (Click over to enlarge)
Photo: Kindly shared to us by Victoria Roles
