To contact the site email Dave davmckenz@aol.com or Sheila sheilan@bethere.co.uk .  Material has been received from Harry Parker (HGS 1936-40). Photos have been received from Mr. Parkinson (HGS Staff member 1960-67). These include an unknown Third Form 1960-61. Could you please let us know the name of the Form? Letters written by Major Jenkinson to pupils and staff of the first school at which he was Headmaster are now on the site's School History Section. If you have a Prefects photo for 1955-56 or 1959-60 could you please let the site have a copy? Thank you.

Choirs 1930s

1930
 
Photo provided by Grace Mills. Thank you, Grace.

Back Row L-R: 1, Grace Mills, Barbara ?, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Third Row L-R: 1, 2, 3, Lorna Jagger, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10
Second Row L-R: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, Miss Morgan Jones, 7, 8, Grace White, 10
Front Row L-R: 1, 2, 3
1931
 
Photo contributed by Grace Mills via Peter Kaye. Thank you.

Pontefract Musical Competitions. Secondary School Choirs

Back Row L-R: Phyllis Stoker (Head Girl), Winnie Morley, Rosalind Atkinson, Ellen Keeling, Marjorie Harrison, May Madeley, Marjorie Kay, 8, Lorna Jagger
Third Row L-R: Grace Mills, 2, 3, 4, Doris Hall, Norah Handley, 7, Grace White, 9, Ethel Jones
Second Row L-R: 1, 2, 3, Estelle Rhodes, Miss Phyllis Wright, Kathleen Perry, 7, 8
Front Row L-R: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5

Some of the names have come from Lorna Jagger. Thank you, Lorna
1937
 
This photo shows the School Choir with Miss. Townsend.
It was contributed by Jean Burton. Many of the names come from Mollie Weaver. Thank you.

Back Row L-R: Joan Maw, Eunice Broom, Iris Holt, Joan Kitchen, 5, Margaret Jowitt, Sarah Aubrey, Thelma Young, 9
Third Row L-R: Nora Swinbank, Betty Fletcher, 3, Margaret Mills, Kathleen Horbury, Florence Hart, Margaret Hardy, Jean Burton, Valerie Davies, 10, Jessie Mosely, Ivy Wagstaff
Second Row L-R: Eileen Asher, Marjorie (or Dorothy?) Park, Ethel Hodgson, 4, Miss. Townsend, Edie Godfrey, Barbara Townend, Edna Harper, Delia Hardy
Front Row L-R: Betty (Jessica) Courtney, Mollie Weaver, Pamela Idle, 4

Jean adds:-
"Standing left, Nora Swinbank, whose father was the primary school headmaster who masterminded the Country Dance Festival. I think her brother was Mr. Swinbank who later joined the Staff. Mollie Weaver is sitting on the grass, second left. I am on the second row from the back, third from the right of the girls wearing summer dresses."
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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