Bring the past to the present
Hemyock School. Class 1 1919.
Back Row. Olive Hill, Mary Salter, Mary Morgan, Olive Pring, Stella Clist, Ethel Doble.
Upper Middle Row. Mr.Baxter, Mildred White, Queenie Pring, Laura Lowman, Kathleen Peardon, ? Wyatt, Olive Ayres, ? Salter, Les Hart, Bob Wyatt, Albert Causley.
Lower Middle Row. ?, Victor Stradling, ? Phillips, Ivy Phillips, ?, ?, ?, Edie Slater, Phyllis Manley, ?.
Front Row. ?, Bill Pike, ?, ?, Walter Hart, Edward Lutley or Chris Doble, Denis Pring.
A scene at a Hemyock Gymkhana in the early 1980s. Pictured is the Hon.Sec and Treasurer of the Gymkhana, Mrs Phyll Kallaway (The mounted young lady is a Miss Wyatt). Phyll is one of Hemyock’s leading lights when it comes to organising fund raising events. The Gymkhana, over the years, has raised money for a wide range of causes including Jimmy Savilles Stoke Mandeville Appeal Fund.
The men of Upottery Home Guard
The picture shows 37 members of the Upottery Home guard (1935-1945)
Back row: F. Pym, M. Spiller, Richard Drew, Stanley Wright (Stanley Arthur William Wright born 1921 in Kilmington moved to Highley Farm, Upottery in 1931), Bert Cooke, Ern Joyce, A. Edwards, Len Wyatt, Reg Underdown, Tom Shepherd, Will Harris, Ed Selway, F. Bartlett and Jack Dare.
Second row: J. Baker, R. Edwards, William Bartlett, Cpl. Raymond Reed, W. Edwards, W. Salvage, Stanley Lane, B. Tidball, ? Spiller, J. Edwards, Arthur Quick, S. Retter, Henry Boyland, L. Pincombe and George Bond.
Front row (seated): Cpl. Alf Pavey, Cpl. Les Rowland, Sgt. J. Boyland, (Officer, rank unknown) W. Parris, (Officer, rank unknown but appears to be Lt.) F. Jefferies, Sgt. H. Crabb, Sgt. A. Crabb and Sgt. R. Wyatt.
Can you help with first names?