Wigan Album
New Jerusalem School
13 CommentsPhoto: RON HUNT
Item #: 10226
I went to the school until 1953.
My ancestors taught at this school. They were Richard, John, Frank and Helen Middlehurst.
I went to this school in 1960
I went to this school from 1941 to 1946. During the war it also housed the ARP.also there was an Air Raid Shelter between the front play ground and the railway bridge.
My father, Clifford Taylor Moores' first school was New Jerusalem School. His mother and father emigrated from Wigan to New Bedford, Massachusetts in 1911-12. They returned to Wigan to meet with family shortly before the Germans bombed the ship, Lusitania. My father attended New Jerusalem School because women and children were not allowed to travel on the ships so they could not return to the U.S.. Do you have any pictures of students between 1914 and 1917? I took my mother and father to Wigan in 1991 and was fortunate enough to have found New Jerusalem although it was called Entwistle and Joynt then. We were so very thrilled to see the school.
My great grandparents were active members of the New Jerusalem church around 1900 they were the Hodkinsons my grandmother and grandfather married their in 1905 she was Edith Martha Hodkinson and he was James Fillingham.
I went to this school 1940 to 1945.the photo is well before that,Note the tram wire post and the annex and trees over the schoolyard wall were before my time.
In my time the head mistress was Miss Tyrer and her brother was the Town Clerk of Wigan.
It was called Warrington Lane primary school when I was there from 1956-61. The headmistress was Miss Thomas.
Janet - I remember Frank Middlehurst from the New Church opposite. He was getting on when I was a kid, but used to play the organ at church. His son, Roy, used to run the Fire Fellowship at the church. He had a boy called Lester. A coincidence with your last name?
Frank was my Grandfather. Roy, his son, was my uncle. Lester took his name from his mother's surname. My surname is by marriage, so no connection. My sisters and I spent many happy times at the Church events.
Frank Middlehurst was my Grandpa too! I'm the eldest of the Roberts sisters.I used to love the Christmas Fairs at "Grandpa's church"! And if I remember correctly we used to go on church trips to Blackpool illuminations!
My dad George Herbert Atherton and some of his siblings went to this school in about 1910-1912
I still have a group school photo- during the 1940s. I remember Alan Baldwin, the Saxon cousins, & Joyce Brown. Happy memories of New Jerusalem School.
Me and Miss Thomas didn't get on.. For some reason she had it in for me Even though I was only 7.. I was having a bit of a fight with a lad in the playground and as we were lining up( as you did then to come back into school) I gave this lad a thump. Miss Thomas saw me ad the outcome was she sent a letter to my parents I don't know what was in it but I can remember my mother crying when she read it. I can remember my dad going in to school and the outcome was I moved to Highfield. Junior School. My dad had been in the army with George Elliott, who was the headmaster. So I think it was straight forward for me to change schools. We had moved from Spring Street, to Pemberton about 6 months previously So It was better all round. As Highfield school was only a 20 minute walk from where I lived... YES a 20 minute walk No matter what the weather was we walked to school back then. Throwing that punch, and the ramifications, turned out to be the best thing that happened to me. As the year I took my 11+, I passed, along with 12 others from the class.. Warrington Lane School didn't have any passes that year..