Schoolchildren at the National School

Group of schoolchildren, boy with slate

The School circa 1900

Schoolboys c 1900

Schoolgirls c 1900. Back row, left to right: Isabel Budd, Miriam Nash, Mabel Pollard, May Kille, Dorothy Kille, Winnie Moody, assistant teacher Frida Kille. Middle row, Unknown, Lily WIlks, Kate Blackman, Nancy Micklam, Winnie Smith, Miriam Sawyer, Ellen Chivers. Front row: Beatrice Parfit, Emily Nicholson, Nellie Hockley, Rose Nicholson, Annie Moon, Nellie Moon.

School photo, 1901

P.C.Dennis Thorne walks along the school wall, lined with children. Taken in 1949 by the New York Sunday News magazine.

P.C.Thorne coaching schoolchildren in road-crossing drill. Identified children are, left to right, at back, Margaret Richards, n.k., n.k., Kathleen Matthews, Susan Lanham, Derek Bursh, n.k., n.k., Alan Blackman, Olivia Woodfield, front row, Peggy Whitear, Judith Stokes, Peter Dene, Judith Stokes, Peter Dean, Leslie Blackman, John Hatchett, Barry Cole, Hazel Goddard.

Photographs of groups of schoolchildren, mostly unidentified, at the old National School. Two of these photographs were taken during the visit, in 1949, of the New York Sunday News, to illustrate a ’typical day in the life of a country bobby’. Click here for a gallery of photos published in the magazine.

For the House History of the School and Schoolhouse, click here.

Place

East Meon National School

Reference number

EM/0044/0002

Accession number

2013-12-048

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