MEECHING INFANT'S SCHOOL

Meeching Valley Teacher: Mary Holter   Top L to R Mark ?, Robert Greenwood, Glynn Donaldson, Chris Raines, Kevin Dorrington, John ?, Stuart Bruce, Steve Saunders, Stephen Coombes.
2nd row L to R Deidre Lower, Linda Mead, Amanda Rollinson, Louise Feltham, Julie Lambert, Marie Gillen, Denise King, Julie Martin, Helen Moore, Josephine Dufaur.
3rd row L to R Neil Greenaway, David Deakin, Gary Winder, David Dunstall, -?-, Philip Herrington, Mark Allen, Robert Cartwright.
4th row L to R Paula Butler, Sandra Bastin, Belinda Hutchings, Carole Fox, Geraldine Melling, Debra Wade, Jane Power, Tracey Harvey.

Meeching Infants
Top L to R -?-, Mark Baker, Tony Lambert?, Kevin Dorrington, Susan Baker, Linda Page, Jeremy ?, Carole Fox, Paul ?.
Mid L to R Paul Trunfell, Andrew ?, David Dunstall, -?-, -?-, -?-, Terry Strip, -?-, Steve Saunders, Kevin Miles.
Bot L to R Neil Greenaway, Mike Watts, -?-, Mandy Poulton, -?-, Georgina Deakin, Julie Lambert, Melanie Smith.
on Floor -?-, -?-.

I think I can fill in some of the spaces: Meeching Valley photo - Mark Taylor, John Langran, Tony Norcross.

 Meeching Infants photo - Jeremy Short, Philip ? not Paul after Carole. I'll try and fill in some more gaps when I've chatted to some other friends and family.

The Meeching Valley 'Class of 1970' (under Mrs Holter) are my contemporaries, but I can't recall exactly why I wasn't there. Notable absences are D Robbins (don't know where he would have been) - and G Butcher, but I think he arrived in Newhaven only after 1970. Come to think of it - I think that Mrs Holter may have had a more junior class, looking at the people whose names I know seem to have been a little older than myself.

Hi John, it may have been something to do with the month you were born. I was born at the beginning of September and in 1970 they changed the school year start date which meant when moving to Grays from Meeching Infants I became the oldest in the class rather than previously being the youngest. So a lot of my classmates at Meeching infants ended up in a class a year ahead of me.... the extra year at school didn't help me at all to be honest.

I think maybe you're right there, Rob - I always seemed to be one of the 'younger' pupils in my year, being born (as I was) later in the year.

Meeching Infants.

Hi Julie

Mid L to R The one between Paul Tufnall and David Dunstall is me Trevor Elliott. Well done on remembering all the others though I wouldn't have had a clue.

Hi Julie, I can fill in four of the missing names from the Meeching Infants 66/67 photo. Extreme left in back row next to Mark Baker is Ian Moore. Middle row 5th from left is Steven Wells & next to him, 6th from left is Paul Marshall. Left sitting on the floor is my brother Mark Meredith. Great work, you nearly have a full house now.

Can't believe this pic !!!.. Had only a few when I was a kid.... Hi to all who remembers me. Live just outside Bristol now and a local Town Councillor... who would have thought? Some of these names really bring back some memories from my time at Meeching and the latter Tideway..