Shropshire Star

Pictures From The Past - September 8

Welcome to this week's collection of nostalgia photos from the pages of the Shropshire Star.

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As you can see from the caption applied direct to this old photo, this is Harlescott School, (Featherbed Lane), Junior Choir in 1951 at Shrewsbury Castle. But what Beryl Willetts, nee Lea, of Oswestry, who owns the photo, and John Abram, of Oswestry - they're both on the photo - would like to know is what it was all about, plus any missing names. Answers to secretary@sfhs.org.uk. Beryl has identified: top row, from left - Miss Blake, Derek Price, Jean Harvey, Ann Cank, Pamela Evans, Valerie Blackburn, unknown. Third row, Margaret Peate; Pat Higginson; Margaret Robinson; Eric Chidley; ? Wright, John Jones, Miss Gaynor Richards. Second row, Jean Lloyd, Gwen Lloyd, Susan Dors or Dawes, Sandra Hall, Fiona Crumpton, Jane Parkinson, Beryl Lea, Heather Dickson. Front, Roger Johnson, Austin Tate, Oliver Aston, David Williams, Gilbert Skidmore, John Perring, John Abram, and two unknowns.