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Mr Edwards and his class, Twickenham Road School, 1956–57

1956–57 · Twickenham Road

Black-and-white class photograph of about thirty-five children in three rows on benches in a school yard, with a male teacher in a suit seated in the middle; the print is torn and creased. — Photo: Frances Fletcher. Reproduced with permission via Chris Hillcox, Voices of Kingstanding. · Select the picture to zoom and pan.

Mr Edwards and his class in 1956–57. Copyright Frances Fletcher.

Frances Fletcher writes on Voices of Kingstanding that her junior teachers were “Mr Hill who you got the cane off if you played up, not me, Mr Edwards everyone’s favourite teacher, Mr Ward and Miss Stocks. Mr Ward used to play the violin and everyone had to sing Cherry Ripe.”

She also recalls the nursery, where the children “had a short sleep on fold up beds outside”, and the little garden patch “where all the children used to plant radishes and flowers called nasturtiums that you could eat”.

About this place: Twickenham Road School

In Voices: “Camp beds in the nursery, 1951” (Frances Fletcher)

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