Wickhamford Sunday School - photographs from the 1930s

Wickhamford Sunday School outing, about 1934.

1. Taken in about 1934, the girls are :-

Back row - Bet Parker, Eileen Colley, Vi Southern, Joyce Franklin, Connie Taylor and Hilda Brotherton.

Middle row - unknown, Hilda Pitman, unknown, unknown, Alma Jelfs.

Front Row - -------Gosling, unknown, Frances Jelfs, Evelyn Jelfs, Wendy Mayer, Nesta Moisey and Olive Parker

Wickhamford Sunday School outing, undated, but taken at Bishops Cleeve

2. Undated, but taken at Bishops Cleeve, complete with their Dads’ flat caps, are :-

Back row – Percy Taylor, unknown, Charlie Heritage and Tom Robbins or Norman Grimmett.

Middle row – unknown, Bill Ellison, Dick Sutton and Bill Field.

Front row – unknown, unknown, Bill Robbins, Ron Hampton, Syd Halford.

3. Gwen Willis (later, Hancock) in charge of a group consisting of :–

Percy Taylor, with Kath Field in front of him, Dick Sutton, Bill Ellison, Gladys Southern, Clarrie Hampton, Bert Grove, unknown, Fred Robbins, Bill Field, and one unknown boy.

4. A group of girls on a Sunday School outing :-

Back row – Nancy Butcher, Lillian Butcher, Bet Grove, Gwen Willis, Violet Bennett and Gladys Turner.

Front row – Clarice Butcher with possibly Ethel Sutton tucked in behind her, Iris Taylor, unknown, Kath Fields and Edith Sutton.

5. There is no date or location for this picture of a group of boys :-

Back row – Fred Robbins, Leslie Moisey, Bill Ellison and a lad who is possibly a Grimmett or a Robbins child.

Front row – unknown, Bill Field, Percy Taylor, Dick Sutton and another unidentified lad.

6. An outing to Bishops Cleeve and nicely lined up, front the left, are :-

Bill Ellison, unknown, Clarrie Hampton, Dick Sutton, Fred Robbins, Bet Grove, Percy Taylor, Gladys Southern and Bill Field.

7. A Sunday School outing in 1931 or 1932 :-

Sitting on the fence are - ------Gosling, Sid Cull, Harry Field, Jack Haines and Billy Walters.

Middle row – Ernie Summers, Reg Cox, Howard Southern and an unknown boy with the tie.

Front row – Stan Taylor, Charlie Parker, Geoff Hancock and Cecil Brotherton

8. Only a few of this group of boys and girls have been identified in this picture and, given the jumbled way they are grouped, it makes naming them difficult. Amongst those present are :-

Dick Sutton, Percy Taylor, Gladys Turner, Gwen Willis, Bill Field, Nancy Butcher, Lilian Butcher, Violet Bennett and Bill Ellison.

9. This picture is uncaptioned, but the man in charge may be George Hancock (see below).

10. A Sunday School visit to the Eversfield Tea Gardens in Bishops Cleeve :-

On the left hand side of the table only the third girl is positively identified as Clarrie Hampton, although in front of her may be Bet Grove.

On the right hand side are :- Mr George Hancock and receding into the background are Bill Ellison, Fred Robbins, ----- Field, Dick Sutton and Percy Taylor.

11. Another visit to Eversfield Tea Garden with Alice Cox and Mrs Taylor.

The boy running away is probably Geoff Hancock and the girl sitting on another girl’s lap is probably Betty Hancock.