Tuesday 16th July 2024  

Quorn Rawlins Grammar School panoramic photograph, 1947

This 'whole school' photograph was taken at Rawlins School in 1947, shortly after the war and just before it became an all girls school. At this stage Rawlins included a prep school and took primary age children.

The numbered panorama has been split into three parts to aid viewing on the museum website.

Can you name anyone? Please indicate by using the numbers and indicating if it is top row (red numbers), second row (yellow numbers), third row (blue numbers), fourth row (seated on chairs - green numbers) or bottom row (seated on the ground - pink numbers)

TOP/BACK ROW – RED
1. Unknown
2. Unknown
3. Unknown
4. Unknown
5. Dorothy Tomlin
6. Margaret Kent
7. Unknown
8. Unknown
9. Unknown
10. Unknown
11. Unknown
12. Lesley Heatherley
13. Barbara Heath
14. Janet ?
15. Joyce Slingsby
16. Unknown
17. Unknown
18. Unknown
19. Unknown
20. Unknown
21. Mary Sefton
22. Marion Grove
23. Beryl Hillman
24. Bobby ?
25. Marcia Hensworth
26. Unknown
27. Unknown
28. Unknown
29. Unknown
30. Unknown
31. Unknown
32. Unknown
33. Joan Simmonds
34. Unknown
35. Janet Joiner
36. Unknown
37. Unknown
38. Gerald Cutts
39. Unknown
40. Unknown
41. Unknown
42. Unknown
43. Unknown
44. Joan Spence
45. Unknown
46. Unknown
47. Beatrice Mattock
48. Unknown
49. Unknown
50. Cynthia Smith
51. Vera Kenney
52. Joan Moore
53. Gwen Thurman
54. Rosemary Kelham

SECOND ROW - YELLOW
1. Tomothy Wykes (doctors son)
2. Marcus Knight
3. Christopher Friend
4. Roger Ward
5. Kenneth Hickling
6. Anthony Cove
7. Unknown
8. Unknown
9. ? Mobbs
10. David Murray (headmaster's son)
11. David Rawlings (or Peter Taylor???)
12. Possibly Keith Toon
13. Unknown
14. Michael Thomas
15. Jean Robertson
16. Sylvia Smith
17. Unknown
18. Unknown
19. Myra Foster
20. Unknown
21. Maria Harrison
22. Thelma Claffey
23. Joyce Kelsey
24. Doreen Orton
25. Maureen Denham
26. Unknown
27. Avril Powell
28. Jimmy Lees
29. Unknown
30. Unknown
31. Unknown
32. John Stacey
33. Unknown
34. Unknown
35. Roger Farnham?
36. Unknown
37. Unknown
38. Unknown
39. Stan Killingley
40. Unknown
41. Unknown
42. Alan Susman
43. Unknown
44. Unknown
45. Unknown
46. Unknown
47. Unknown
48. Unknown
49. Unknown
50. Unknown
51. Ian Lake (who became a famous concert pianist and composer)

THIRD ROW - BLUE
1. Unknown
2. Unknown
3. Unknown
4. Unknown
5. Unknown
6. Unknown
7. Unknown
8. Unknown
9. Unknown
10. Pat Rushin
11. Enid Stringfellow
12. Unknown
13. Unknown
14. Unknown
15. Unknown
16. Unknown
17. Unknown
18. Unknown
19. Unknown
20. Alan Greenwood
21. Unknown
22. Unknown
23. Unknown
24. Unknown
25. Unknown
26. Unknown
27. Unknown
28. Pearl Thatcher
29. Unknown
30. Unknown
31. Unknown
32. Gordon Pole
33. Unknown
34. Unknown
35. Unknown
36. Unknown
37. Margaret Ballard
38. Unknown
39. Unknown
40. Judith Wakefield
41. Unknown
42. Unknown
43. Yvonne Moody
44. Unknown
45. Unknown
46. Kathleen Drinkwater
47. Unknown
48. Judith Harris

FOURTH ROW – GREEN (on chairs, sixth form, prefects and teachers)
1. Jill Mebberson
2. Unknown
3. Unknown
4. Unknown
5. Unknown
6. Hyde Snable (query spelling)
7. Unknown
8. Unknown
9. Mona Freeman
10. Rita Mebberson (later married Patrick Spence)
11. Unknown
12. Unknown
13. Unknown
14. Secretary, Miss Priestley
15. Mrs White
16. Miss Joy Brockhurst (Art teacher)
17. Mrs Yeomans
18. Miss Clarke (married Mr Whitbread)
19. Miss Graham (married Mr Wasnage)
20. Miss Mounteney
21. Headmaster, Alan Dalton-Murray
22. Mr Jacques
23. Mr Fursdon
24. Mr Argyle
25. Mr Douglas
26. Mr Wasnage (married Miss Graham)
27. Mr Whitbread (married Miss Clarke)
28. Brian Poole
29. Patrick Spence (married Rita Mebberson)
30. Peter Wilson
31. Gilbert ?
32. Unknown
33. Unknown
34. Unknown
35. Unknown
36. Roger Taylor (brother of Peter Taylor)
37. Unknown
38. Nigel Ford
39. Unknown
40. Unknown
41. Michael Edward Harley of Thurmaston

BOTTOM/FIFTH ROW – PINK (seated on ground)
Note: Some of the children belong to the prep school
1. Maureen Hardy
2. Lillian Ingram
3. Joan Kerfoot
4. Leila Bayliss
5. June Nuttall
6. Mollie Bray
7. Sheila Stevenson
8. Pearl Forrester
9. Margaret Warner
10. Iris Harper
11. Pat Smith
12. Unknown
13. Rae Wakefield
14. Pauline Rudkin
15. Judy Farmer
16. Pamela Astill
17. Pat Blackwell
18. Pat Patchett
19. Unknown
20. Elaine Coltman
21. Carol Reeves
22. Unknown
23. Unknown
24. Unknown
25. ? Pickering
26. John Friend
27. ? Hardy
28. Carol ?
29. Edith Mitchel
30. Sylvia Dawes
31. Unknown
32. Janet Cox
33. Unknown
34. Beryl Moore
35. Pat Charles
36. Jane Hooke
37. Mavis Jeffery
38. Sheila Rushin
39. Sheila Rawlings
40. Pamela Richards
41. Unknown
42. Unknown
43. Unknown

Missing information: Can you provide any more names? Please email us at: team2024@quornmuseum.com Submitted on: 2019-11-02 Submitted by: Pat Wilby (nee Patchett) Artefact ID: 2239 Artefact URL: www.quornmuseum.com/display.php?id=2239 Print: View artefact in printer-friendly page or just on its own (new browser tab).