Wigan Album
All Saints School
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Photo: Eric Turner
Item #: 6484
2nd row,?,Eileen Bold, Betty Dawber,?,?,Elmer Twist, ?.
Front row, Red Riding Hood?.Joyce Lee, Norman Parr, Eric Turner, others unknown. 1934?
What a great photograph!
The Curate in the photo - Mr Beard. Was he later (1960s and 1970s) Vicar of St Andrew's at Springfield?
Sorry Mick, I don't know where he went from Hindley
the Rev olaf Beard went to St Marys Aspull after being at Hindley All Saints
The adults at the rear were:Miss Catherine E Walls, Infant Department Head Teacher; Joseph Richardson, Junior Department Head Teacher; Rev. Arthur Hope Johnson,MA (Oxon)Vicar of All Saints Hindley and Chairman of School Governors; Reverend Eric Olaf Beard, Curate of All Saints. I was a pupil at All Saints, and ended my teaching career as the school's Head Teacher in 1984.
Eric Olaf Beard was Vicar of St Elizabeth, Aspull from 1942 to 1959 and then at St Andrew, Springfield.
He was educated at Kelham Theological College.