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Upottery Primary School

1st April 2011 by 4 Comments

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.

Early Picture of Upottery School

Early Picture of Upottery School

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.

Picture of the Upottery Primary School Class of 1928

Class of 1928

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!

Picture of the 1933 Upottery School Football Team

The 1933 Upottery School Football Squad

We’d like to know more about this school and would love to know who these pupils are. Can you help us?

Filed Under: 1900-1999, 1920s, 1930s, Decades, Football, Schools, Sport & Leisure, Upottery, Upottery, Villages

Upottery Mothers’ Union 1928

1st April 2011 by Leave a Comment
Picture of Upottery Mothers' Union 1928

Upottery Mothers' Union Members 1928

In 2010, 82 years after this picture was taken, the Upottery Mothers’ Union was still going strong.

Perhaps you can tell us more about the members, old and new.

Filed Under: 1900-1999, 1920s, Decades, Upottery

Upottery & Yarcombe Ploughing Match

1st April 2011 by Leave a Comment

Picture of the Upottery & Yarcombe Ploughing Match 1958

Picture of the Upottery & Yarcombe Ploughing Match
Local ploughing skills beng put to the test while the ‘experts’ look on.

Local farming skills being put to the test in 1958. Some of these young lads are likely to be in the area, still.

Do you know anything about this match or the people involved? Please tell us what you know.

Filed Under: 1900-1999, 1950s, Business & Trades, Farms, Upottery, Villages, Yarcombe

History Group Speaker 10 March ’11

11th February 2011 by 1 Comment
Upottery Airfield, England, 22 April 1944.

Upottery Airfield, England, 22 April 1944.

Mr Claud Caple, from the South West Airfields Heritage Trust will be addressing the Hemyock History and Archiving Association on Thursday, 10th March ’11.

The subject is the World War II airfileds at Dunkeswell, Smeatharpe and Culmhead.

New members are warmly welcomed. The talk begins at 7:30pm, in the Church Rooms.

For more information, please contact Mike Cooper on 01823 680175.

Filed Under: 1930s, 1940s, Dunkeswell, News & Events, Smeatharpe, Upottery
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