Wigan Album
St John's R.C. Primary School
10 CommentsPhoto: noelle Ann worthington
Item #: 25861
I should recognise the priest, but I'm not sure. Is it Fr Karalus?
I remember miss murphy she used to ask us to get the old penny/halfpenny for her she treated us more if queen victoria had her hair in a bun,when i went john fisher my mum told me mr murphy was her brother.
This would have been my leavers class if I'd not moved schools. Remember a few faces - Stephen Leyland, Richard Kindred, John Birchall, Michael Roden.
By leaving I just avoided Miss Murphy's class - she was terrifying!!
I think the picture is taken outside St Joseph's Seminary at Upholland - looks like the entrance. Sadly the building is now empty and in a state of disrepair.
This would have been my year too but I moved in 1968. A few more names - Ruth Lea on the front row. David Myers and Philip Bowden on the middle row and Elizabeth Allard at the back.
I don't recognize either of the priests I think they mutated have been from the college. I attended St Johns as a child and left in 1959. I was married at st Johns Church.
Also fifth from the right middle row is Julie Connell.
I remember this, I'm sitting next to Richard Kindred on front row. I remember most of the boys and a few of the girls. Miss Murphy was brilliant but still remember her red pen that seemed to be about a foot long when getting rapped on the knuckles.
I think I'm in the photo, but won't say who just now... I remember Tizzy Allard, Gwen Callaghan, Judith Durkin, Gwyneth Rooney, Ruth Knowles, Sheila Kay, Sandra Wadeson, Ruth Lea, Maria Adams and her cousin Alison Tickle, Sheila Rimmer I think, Marcella Sherry, Janet Southern, Jane Lowe, Sheila Dowling, Andrea Witherington, Julie Connell. Was Sheila Baggeley still in our class? I'm rubbish at faces, though, but Sheila Kay is back row 6th from left. Anyone able to put faces to the names?
I am fourth on back row. Sheila Rimmer now Livesey