SCHOOL TRIP TO WILDERSWIL IN SWITZERLAND 4TH - 13TH JUNE 1954
By Beryl Canwell (nee Burgess)
By Beryl Canwell (nee Burgess)
OUR MEMORIES OF GREAT YARMOUTH HIGH SCHOOL 1950 - 57
By Glenda Wells (nee Rayner) and Beryl (Budgie) Canwell (nee Burgess)
Upper V 111 1954-55 in front of the Annexe
Lynda Mayes, Beryl Green, Glenda Rayner, Judith Haylett, Mrs Pereira, Diana Stonall, Ann Key, Margaret Elliot
Five girls in middle row: Pat Carr, Margaret Haylett, Paddy Nunn, Beryl Burgess, Eileen Hartley
Hilary Watson, Pat veness, Eileen Allcock, Pat Galloway, Myrtle Newman
Being extremely proud to have passed the then 11 plus exam to attend the Great Yarmouth High School for Girls in Trafalgar Road which was a beautiful old building with many nooks and crannies.
Some of the teachers we remember were:-
Miss Black - Headmistress Miss Brooks - Head after Miss Black
Miss Adams Miss Taylor
Miss Rattan - French Mrs Pereira - French
Miss Dawson - Geography Miss Trickett - English
Miss Jackson - Cookery & Needlework Miss Favell - History
Miss Evans - English Mrs Miller - Science
Ms Miller - Geography Daisy Lee - Music
Miss Capon - Games Miss Ellis - Games
Miss Squire - Games Mrs Birkett - Biology
Miss Mumford - Latin Miss Venus - Art
Miss Goody Miss Cadman Miss Elliott
Miss Page - School secretary
Miss Jackson's cookery lessons and how we loved going to Yarmouth Market in our lunch time to get her vegetables for the afternoon and following morning's lessons.
An art lesson once in hot weather where we were allowed to sketch scenes from the Wellington Pier to the Jetty. The teacher then walked along the seafront to check on how we were faring.
We can remember our form room in the annexe and having to keep the fire stoked up so that we did not freeze. Getting into trouble for making too big a fire! (Glenda)
Going to the games field at Barnard Avenue along the sea front, walking if you had the time, cycling or by bus with the provided tickets. The steam trains coming past the games field on their way to the old Beach Station.
In the warm weather with the windows open, being in the downstairs classroom on the corner at the front of the school we could hear the Guinness Clock that was installed on the front for the Festival of Britain, striking and playing music.
In the summer season, the daily talent show at the Marina open air theatre. Often people entered with almost no talent at all making an awful noise when we were trying to do lessons and exams. The school trip to the Festival of Britain in 1951. School trip to London Zoo and Windsor with a trip down the Thames by boat.
Our school trip to Wilderswil by train, a little village near Interlaken, in Switzerland. School trip to Heidelberg in Germany.
Some of us went to Cambridge for the day. We looked around the colleges. Miss Trickett looked over a bridge and her hat fell off into the river and she had to run along the bank to retrieve it. We then went to the theatre but I cannot remember what we saw.
The whole school assembled in the hall in Februay 1952 to be told of the death of King George VI at Sandringham. The following year we each received a mug to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
The annual school prize-giving at the Town Hall in Yarmouth and using the Council Chamber for a cloakroom.
The annual inter school sports at the Wellesley Recreation Ground. Was very proud one year to represent my school and county at the All England Sports held at the RAF Stadium in Uxbridge, Middlesex. I ran in the 100 yards race but unfortunately didn't make it through to the semi final. (Beryl)
The unheated swimming pool on Marine Parade where we went with the school. I swam at Ilford in the East of England Championships, 100 yards breaststroke, but unfortunately was disqualified because at one point my shoulders were not quite square! (Glenda)
Remembering Anne Pashley who left the school in 1953 and feeling so proud when she represented her country at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, winning a silver medal in the 4 x 100 yards relay.
Walking from the school en masse to attend a stone laying ceremony in St Nicholas Church before its rebuilding.
Visiting Norwich, a real treat in those days, to attend a Shakespeare play at the Maddermarket Theatre.
We both made some wonderful life-long friends at the school during our time there.
Feeling extremely sad on our very last day at school as the hymn we always sang had more significance if you were leaving, especially for Glenda for when she sang this hymn on her last day it really was the last time at the old school. The next term was due to begin at Lynn Grove in Gorleston.
Lord Dismiss us with thy blessing
Those who here shall meet no more
May their seed time past be yielding
Year by year a richer store
Those returning those returning
Make more faithful than before
1957 really was the end of an era in the school's history.
Some of the teachers we remember were:-
Miss Black - Headmistress Miss Brooks - Head after Miss Black
Miss Adams Miss Taylor
Miss Rattan - French Mrs Pereira - French
Miss Dawson - Geography Miss Trickett - English
Miss Jackson - Cookery & Needlework Miss Favell - History
Miss Evans - English Mrs Miller - Science
Ms Miller - Geography Daisy Lee - Music
Miss Capon - Games Miss Ellis - Games
Miss Squire - Games Mrs Birkett - Biology
Miss Mumford - Latin Miss Venus - Art
Miss Goody Miss Cadman Miss Elliott
Miss Page - School secretary
Miss Jackson's cookery lessons and how we loved going to Yarmouth Market in our lunch time to get her vegetables for the afternoon and following morning's lessons.
An art lesson once in hot weather where we were allowed to sketch scenes from the Wellington Pier to the Jetty. The teacher then walked along the seafront to check on how we were faring.
We can remember our form room in the annexe and having to keep the fire stoked up so that we did not freeze. Getting into trouble for making too big a fire! (Glenda)
Going to the games field at Barnard Avenue along the sea front, walking if you had the time, cycling or by bus with the provided tickets. The steam trains coming past the games field on their way to the old Beach Station.
In the warm weather with the windows open, being in the downstairs classroom on the corner at the front of the school we could hear the Guinness Clock that was installed on the front for the Festival of Britain, striking and playing music.
In the summer season, the daily talent show at the Marina open air theatre. Often people entered with almost no talent at all making an awful noise when we were trying to do lessons and exams. The school trip to the Festival of Britain in 1951. School trip to London Zoo and Windsor with a trip down the Thames by boat.
Our school trip to Wilderswil by train, a little village near Interlaken, in Switzerland. School trip to Heidelberg in Germany.
Some of us went to Cambridge for the day. We looked around the colleges. Miss Trickett looked over a bridge and her hat fell off into the river and she had to run along the bank to retrieve it. We then went to the theatre but I cannot remember what we saw.
The whole school assembled in the hall in Februay 1952 to be told of the death of King George VI at Sandringham. The following year we each received a mug to commemorate the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II.
The annual school prize-giving at the Town Hall in Yarmouth and using the Council Chamber for a cloakroom.
The annual inter school sports at the Wellesley Recreation Ground. Was very proud one year to represent my school and county at the All England Sports held at the RAF Stadium in Uxbridge, Middlesex. I ran in the 100 yards race but unfortunately didn't make it through to the semi final. (Beryl)
The unheated swimming pool on Marine Parade where we went with the school. I swam at Ilford in the East of England Championships, 100 yards breaststroke, but unfortunately was disqualified because at one point my shoulders were not quite square! (Glenda)
Remembering Anne Pashley who left the school in 1953 and feeling so proud when she represented her country at the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne, winning a silver medal in the 4 x 100 yards relay.
Walking from the school en masse to attend a stone laying ceremony in St Nicholas Church before its rebuilding.
Visiting Norwich, a real treat in those days, to attend a Shakespeare play at the Maddermarket Theatre.
We both made some wonderful life-long friends at the school during our time there.
Feeling extremely sad on our very last day at school as the hymn we always sang had more significance if you were leaving, especially for Glenda for when she sang this hymn on her last day it really was the last time at the old school. The next term was due to begin at Lynn Grove in Gorleston.
Lord Dismiss us with thy blessing
Those who here shall meet no more
May their seed time past be yielding
Year by year a richer store
Those returning those returning
Make more faithful than before
1957 really was the end of an era in the school's history.