Monday 20th March 2023  

St Bartholomew's Primary School Orchestra, 1962

This is a photograph of St Bartholomew's Junior School Orchestra in 1962. The music teacher who ran it was Mr Weavell. It seems amazing to us today that a junior school could have every child playing an instrument and run an orchestra of this size.

We have quite a lot of names for this photograph, but can you identify anyone else?

1 - Richard Thompson (drums)
2 - Susan Keighley
4 - Richard Anderson
5 - Ann Child
8 - Veida (or Avril) Schepens
9 - Julia Martin
10 - Alice Freshwater
12 - Andrew Camp
13 - Mary Cockerell
14 - Andrew Baum
15 - Richard Coxall
16 - Martin Coxall
17 - Dorothy Bennett
18 - Stephen Dudley
19 - Graham Sykes (Barrow Road)
20 - Mary Bunker
22 - Jane Wallis (and just behind is Gillian Hopkins)
23 - Barbara Cockerill
24 - Ann Price
25 - Lesley Fletcher (almost hidden behind is Sue Sharpe)
27 - Margaret Setchfield
29 - Marilyn Machin (?)
30 - Susan Allen
31 - Gillian Tyler
33 - Rachel Lord
34 - Kathleen O'Neil (and just behind is Helen Footitt)
36 - Ann Thompson
36a - Susan Kearle
37 - John Williamson
38 - Andrew Brown
40 - Alison Blackburn
43 - David Sykes
46 - Elaine Taylor
47 - Michael Speight

Missing information: Can you identify any more children in this photograph? Please email us at: team2023@quornmuseum.com Submitted on: 2011-12-04 Submitted by: Richard Thompson Artefact ID: 1479 Print: View artefact in printer-friendly page or just on its own.