Ardwick Central School

Class Photographs

The following images were generously donated

by Ann Howard (Smith) and Gina Hutchinson (Tonroe)

 

Form 1G - 1950 - 1951 - Miss Morrison

 

Form 2G - 1951 - 1952 - Mrs Swift (P.E.)

 
Form 3G - 1952 - 1953 - Miss Grier (History)

Top row - L to R:
Pat Floyd - Anne Hinchcliffe - Marjorie Bridge - Anne Thomason - Valerie Wass - Mavis Spencer - Patricia Taylor

Second row from top - L to R:
Enid Jones - Helen Sorensen - Ruth Lignum - Pat Lund - Jean Bailey - Ann Silgrim - Beryl Bardsley - Janice ?

Third row - L to R:
Anne Smith - Hazel Hughes - Margaret Nadin - Ina Thomson - Shirley Crapper - Julie Peart - Barbara Lea - Irene Chadwick - Marion Lane

Fourth row - L to R:
Jean Welch - Georgina Tonroe - Pauline Duncalf - MISS NANCY GRIER - Kathleen Mather - Barbara Farrington - Eileen Thompson

Front row - L to R:
Rhona Frost - Margaret Loco - Margaret Moffat - Betty Penny
 
Form 4C - 1953 - 1954 - Miss Lord

"The reason the class was co-ed was because towards the end of the third year, choices had to be made as to our individual career paths, resulting in being split up from most of our fellow-pupils of the previous three years as we entered a different phase of our education. Form 4C concentrated on 'Commercial' subjects like shorthand and typing and book-keeping and presumably the boys would be hoping to go into journalism or accountancy. I think other classes were domestic science and woodwork/metalwork etc (which in those days would most certainly have been single sex). I think a class with the letter A after the number was for those who were probably hoping for higher education and covered the more advanced mathematic/scientific subjects and was also co-ed. I don't know what the 'A' stood for but could have been for Advanced or Academic I suppose." Gina Hutchinson (Tonroe)