Wigan Album
Highfield Junior School
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Photo: fred foster
Item #: 18268
Middle Row George Brown,Alice Heaton, Eric Taylor, Maureen Smith, David Jenkinson, Margaret Anderton
Front Row, Eileen Stockley, Jimmy Dunn, Millicent Orme, Norman Molyneux
Nice picture. Any idea what year Fred?
I think the year would have been 1938 as I went to the Grammar School in 1942 and this was taken 3 years previously
John
the other half of this class is on another photo under Highfield Junior School and it says the year is 1937
Hi Fred,Reg Senior, did he play rugby league later on in life for Swinton.
Would that be Sir James Cyril Anderton's sister.
Margaret is the sister of Sir James. Last I heard she was in a rest home with failing health. As far as Reg is concerned, I dont recall him playing rugby, but I could be mistaken. Reg, his father and brother Joe were a successful firm of window cleaners in the Wigan town centre for many years
Yes Reg did play for Swinton they sighned him from St Helens.
Eileen Stockley went on to marry Harold Gaskell and to become headteacher at Highfield Primary when she succeeded Bill Spencer. Eric Taylor became a solicitor with his own practice in Manchester and for a time had the position of Recorder. Eric's dad Sydney was a one time Mayor of Wigan. Norman Molyneux emigrated to California.
what a lovely photo
I remember Mrs Gaskell as the Head when I was there in the mid sixties. It was a lovely school