The links above take you to two photographs of the pupils of Longworth School in 1930.
We have tentatively been able to put names to most of the pupils in the photographs,
although some of you may be able to correct mistakes. Move your mouse over each face to see the name.
These young bright faces stare back at us across seventy years of history.
Wouldn't it be interesting to build up a little profile of each person, so that
we knew something about the lives of each of these schoolchildren?
Who left the village to live elsewhere? Who married a village sweetheart or
perhaps even a class-mate who is also in the matching picture? Who still lives
in the village today? Who has a relative in the village today who could tell
us something about the girl or boy in the photograph? What did the pupil go
on to do for a living? What is the most exciting thing that these pupils think
happened to them in their lives? What are the stories that these young faces
could now tell us?
Pam McNicol kindly got in touch to tell us about her mother Ruth Bright and her uncle John Bright who
feature in the Class of 1930 photos.
Well, it would be fun to have a paragraph to match each of the faces. In
fact it could be much more than that because it would tell us something about
village life of those who were at school in the early 1930s. Local historical
research is often built on similar approaches. A group of people with something
in common, a cohort, are followed through and their experiences recorded.
Well, what we would like to do may not amount to anything quite as grand as
that, but we would like to collect some information and store the data for
the use of future historians or simply for people who are interested in the
recent past in our local villages.
More interestingly for us perhaps, is that (with permission) we could add some more detail about
each of these individuals on this website. If you are either in one of these pictures or know
someone who is, perhaps a older relative, then you might like to
contribute something, however small, that will illuminate these
faces with some interesting written detail. All you need to do
is to contact the Webmaster, Martin Taylor, by phone (01865 821228), by email or via the Contact Us page
on this website.
