About 125 years ago, Lord Sidmouth built Upottery School, providing free education for the village children. The distinctive building, with its single high-vaulted schoolroom and the adjacent Victorian schoolhouse, is very much a feature of the village landscape still.
It was built in the centre of the village for the local community and is surrounded by beautiful countryside, in the heart of the Blackdown Hills. The listed original Victorian building has been improved and extended to meet the needs of a modern curriculum, but the school retains much of its close family atmosphere.
The football boots in 1933 look more like a challenge than an advantage and more than one of the boys in the picture looks like they are fully armed with a catapult in their back pocket! In 2011, they would be well in to their 80’s – time to own up lads!
We’d like to know more about this school and would love to know who these pupils are. Can you help us?
Ref. Upottery Football Team
My father would have been 10 yrs old and one of the players certainly looks like him but the photo details are too small to be sure. His name was Maurice Doble but has now sadly died. Is there a chance that the photo could be enlarged.
Thank you
Sandra Barrett
Are there any register books at the school, I am looking for my ancesters who would have been at the school between 1891 and 1898 names Albert Edward Thomas Fletcher and his sisters Amy and Ida. This will confirm that my ancester was resident in Uppottery when he died young.
Thankyou.
I have the group photo of 1928. My mother is in it, she was called Mary Stait and lived with Jessie Hunt and his family at Little Common. A long shot I know but would anyone have any names of any of the children in the photo?
I have the group photo of 1928. My mother is in it, she was called Mary Stait and lived with Jessie Hunt and his family at Little Common. A long shot I know but I wondered if any of the older families in Upottery and surrounding areas would have any names of any of the children in the photo?