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St John's R.C. Primary School

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st Johns leavers class 1971
st Johns leavers class 1971
Photo: noelle Ann worthington
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Item #: 25861
the only people that I know on the photo are Michael Roden ( my brother front right) and Miss Murphy geography / French teacher

Comment by: Michael on 9th January 2015 at 05:53

I should recognise the priest, but I'm not sure. Is it Fr Karalus?

Comment by: stephen atherton on 11th January 2015 at 07:23

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.

Comment by: Geoff Leyland on 15th January 2015 at 12:58

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.

Comment by: Dave Rothwell on 18th January 2015 at 23:11

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.

Comment by: Kathleen Walsh on 22nd January 2015 at 19:53

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.

Comment by: Maureen Corrigan on 23rd January 2015 at 12:49

Also fifth from the right middle row is Julie Connell.

Comment by: Mick Donovan on 4th May 2015 at 11:37

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.

Comment by: Mrs Goodman on 27th February 2017 at 09:57

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?

Comment by: Peter Myers on 16th May 2020 at 02:20

Teacher, far right, back row is Mrs Myers

Comment by: Anne-Sheila Livesey on 7th November 2021 at 18:50

I am fourth on back row. Sheila Rimmer now Livesey

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