MAY DAY (circa 1936) This is a photograph of Everdon School pupils taken on May Day in, my Mum thinks, 1936. The names of the pupils are as follows …
LEFT TO RIGHT - BACK ROW Leonard Page, Roland Purr, John Burt, Tom Elsigood (then two not known), [then surname] Wills, [then surname] Brown.
LEFT GROUP OF BOYS Robert Blakey, [then two with surname] Wills, Harold King, Maurice Wigley, Derek Purr, Eddie Harris.
BEHIND THE MAY QUEEN Vic Brown, Arnold Lockwood, David Angel, Norman Bradley.
MAY QUEEN AND ATTENDANTS FROM LEFT TO RIGHT Joan Bird, Amy Shortland, [Wilson ?], Queen Margery Smith, Lorna Bird, Maisie Bazely, Dorothy Purr, Pam Kelly, Sheila Kelly, Olive Brown [my Mum] and Mary Lockwood [not interested in the camera!].
TWO PAGE BOYS John Maybury [the Headmaster's son] and Raymond Wills. P.S. The Headmaster, Mr Maybury, lived in a house attached to the back of the school. The infants' teacher was away on the day of the photograph. Her name was Miss Pollard and she lived in the Post Office at Farthingstone.