School Photos

I’m thrilled to have been given a whole load of St. Mary of the Angels school photos. I think they date mainly from the 1950s and 1960s, but I have no idea of the names of the children, most of the teachers, and even some of the priests.

I hate the thought of unidentified photos, and it would be lovely to put names to these faces. I also want to share the photos, as they might be of a much wider interest to those in the parish and beyond. So I will be adding them to the one-place study in the coming weeks and months, in the hope that some of you will recognise them and let me know names. You never know – some may be of you, your brothers, sisters, parents, cousins, aunts or uncles etc. I’ll then add in the names to the relevant posts, so they’re there going forward.

You can let me know the names either by commenting via WordPress against the relevant post. Or letting me know on the social media platforms I’ll be sharing to.

In addition to these school photos, it seems a good idea to use this section to add other school photos in future.

Finally, a massive thank you again to the person who donated them. It’s brilliant that these have been preserved, for maybe almost 70 years in some cases.

The links to the photos published to date are as follows:

Postscript:
I may not be able to thank you personally because of your contact detail confidentiality, but I do want to say how much I appreciate the donations received which have kept this website going over recent years. They really and truly have helped. Thank you.

The website has always been free to use, and if at all possible I want to continue this policy going forward. However, it does cost me money to operate – from undertaking the research and writing it up which can be around 20-30 hours a month, purchasing resources and documents, (this month I’ve had some major outlays running into the hundreds of pounds), visiting archives, right down to website hosting costs, which given the number of photos I include pushes those costs up. In the current difficult economic climate I do have to consider if I can afford to continue running it. 

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