Some of you will have fun recognising faces in today’s pictures, a couple of which have never been published before.

I can name just a few in the main group picture taken in the school hall, including John Carter, Keith Edmonds, Clive Smith, Robert Ellison and Barry Stone.

I know that John and Clive are still around in Marlow these days, Sorry, but I can’t help with any of the girls’ names or the lady teachers, but far right is the very popular sports master Dennis Tew, who also appears below, supervising canoeists from the school down at the old Marlow Bathing Place in Quarry Wood Road, where the Longridge Centre is now.

It might also be a rear view of Dennis in the Saints Skiffle group picture which includes Colin Lovegrove on guitar and Keith Edmonds at the drums, or should I say drum. No doubt that Lonnie Donegan would have been their inspiration.

Everyone is concentrating hard on their work in the classroom picture, whilst finally we have Headmaster Mr Hazelby, his Christian name not remembered, but I don’t think many school kids knew the Christian names of their teachers.

These are pictures that I have collected from various sources over the years, and I have more from Holy Trinity if they create any interest, some given to me by the late Gladys Peddle, widow of schoolteacher Frank – they lived in my road.

However, when the Marlow Society held an annual Heritage Day at Holy Trinity some years ago I was shown the school’s own huge collection of photographs covering many decades, some of which went on display.

The sad thing is that very few of them had any dates noted or names listed, a problem with so many old photos that come to light.

The school also showed me a diary with entries on each day through much of the 1900s.

There was a page devoted to the day that the news came through of the death of King George VI and, five years before that, the effect that severe snow and then floods in Marlow had on attendances, both staff and pupils.

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