HILLCREST SCHOOL - 1954
Class photo's and the Netball Team
By Laurie Stonehouse
The teacher in the top picture in the middle sitting down is Mrs Marchant.
A selection of names from top two photos include - Joan Ladd (Stonehouse),Phylis Goldsmith (Stanyard), Kath Discombe, Norma Goldsmith (Bulman), Benita Whittinton, Peggy Sanders, Pamila Hill, Pat Bird,*****Fairhead, Margaret Mitchell, Doreen Woolvern, Kay Heath, Pam Ship, Ivy Fitzroy, Pat Taylor, Tony Clark,***** Green, Michelle Cornwall,***** Evans, Margaret Downey, Audrey Bradford, Elain Fuller, Davina Allery, Val Commons and Barbara Hill.
The third picture shows the Eagles Netball team from 1954.
As a little bonus the last picture is of Bruce Saunders when I last spoke to him in 2005 he told me his first teaching post was at Hillcrest School and some of these ladies were his first pupils. Later on he was my maths teacher at Tideway for one year 79/80, he retired in 1984.
Class photo - 1954
Private collection of J K Stonehouse
Class photo - 1954
Private collection of J K Stonehouse
Eagles Netball Team - 1954
Kind permission of Dorleen Clear
Bruce Saunders 2005
Laurie Stonehouse