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| Construction of the New School Building - 1967 |
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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. |
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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)Let us know your memories of Dunkirk School
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