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Dunkirk School



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Photographs
Click on each photograph below  to show the enlarged version

 

 

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Lenton Local History Society

 

Photograph courtesy of Lenton Local History Society

 

Photo courtesy of Richard Gadsby

 

 

1927/28
See also Beeston Road Gallery

 

1927/28

 

1946

 

 

 

Photo courtesy of John Warner

 

Photo courtesy of Susan Daykin nee Morley

 

Photo courtesy of John Warner

 

 

c. 1950

 

c. 1950

 

c. 1950/51

 

 

 

Photo courtesy of Susan Daykin nee Morley

 

Photo courtesy of Gordon Woolley

 

Photo courtesy of Susan Daykin nee Morley

 

 

c. 1950/51

 

c. 1951

 

c. 1951

 

 

 

Photo courtesy of John Warner

 

Photograph courtesy of Christine Hill nee Pawlina

 

Photo courtesy of Gordon Woolley

 

 

c. 1951

 

1953

 

c. 1954

 

 

 

Photo courtesy of Susan Daykin nee Morley

 

Photograph courtesy of Julia Pearl

 

Photograph courtesy of Glenys Randle

 

 

c. 1954

 

1966

 

1978

 

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Lenton Local History Society

 

Photograph courtesy of Hannah Liu

 

Photograph courtesy of Hannah Liu

 

 

1987

 

1996

 

1996

 

 

 

 

 

 

Exterior Shots of the School Building - 2005

 

 

Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

Photograph by Paul Bexon - 2005

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Construction of the New School Building - 1967

 

 

During 1967 while the new school buildings were under construction teachers from Dunkirk Primary School, sometimes with their pupils present, came and took photographs to show the building at different stages of its completion.  The following fifteen photographs are taken from the school's own archive and are reproduced by permission of Dunkirk Primary School.  We have not included the names of any of the people shown in the photographs but if anyone recognises anyone we can always add an update which includes the relevant names.

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

 

Updated with Pupil Names

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

 

 

Updated with Pupil Names

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

 

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

Photograph courtesy of Dunkirk Primary School

 

 

Memories

Julia Pearl - Perth, Western Australia
The block of photos above showing the new school building under construction features pupils in the top juniors in 1967. I was in this class although I can't spot myself in any of the photographs.  The shots must have been taken in the Spring/early Summer of 1967 as we would all have left for secondary school after the Summer holidays.

The plans for the site were presented to my class in the previous September by our teacher, Neil Atkins, and we all subsequently went wildflower picking on the site prior to the workmen moving in. We had to plot where the flowers had been found on the plans. There was a competition to see who could collect the most wildflowers either on the site or around the traps.  I got off to a good start but Catherine Moore eventually beat my total and won a Collector's Guide to Wildflowers. I can still remember many of the flower names and bought a copy of the book for myself at a later date.

Our class never did go to the 'new school' after it opened but it all seemed very exciting that the old building would be vacated and this modern building would be the new look of Dunkirk Primary School. We all expected the old site would be cleared but the building still survives to this day housing the Dunkirk and Old Lenton Community Centre.

Elizabeth Ann Jones (née Hodges)
I attended Dunkirk School in the 1950s.  I can recall the school being decorated with lots of bunting for Queen Elizabeth’s coronation in 1953.  Each girl was given a mug and a lace hankie.  The boys were also given a mug but I can’t remember if they got anything else.  One of the teachers at Dunkirk School was Mr Jackson.  Unlike the other teachers he didn’t have a cane.  Instead he used a slipper which was called ‘tickle toe’.  Fortunately I was never on the receiving end of it.  

On one occasion I got my arm jammed between the heating pipes.  All sorts of greasy substances were applied to my arm in a vain effort to free me.  My arm then began to swell up which only made matters worse.  In the end the heating had to be switched off, the pipes drained and a fireman brought in to cut me free. The heating could not be switched back on again until the pipe had been mended.  So the following day we all had to sit in class with our coats on.  No doubt I wasn’t very popular with my fellow pupils that particular day.  Across the road from the school was Grahams shop – something of an Aladdin’s cave as it sold all manner of things.  I remember being sent to the shop for a glass hammer and a tin of elbow grease.  Given that both requests were made on April 1st I’ll leave it to you to draw your own conclusions as to the answer I received.

Let us know your memories of Dunkirk School

 

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