| Title | St. Oswald’s (C of E) School |
| Date | 1916 |
| Location | Guiseley |
| Photo ID | E067 |
| Comment | Children at Guiseley National School (St. Oswald’s) celebrate Empire Day dressed in costumes and with flags. After the death of Queen Victoria in 1901, it was decided that her birthday 24th May, would be marked by a national celebration, the first Empire day was on the 24th May 1902. Children would salute the flag, sing patriotic songs and be told tales of national heroes who had shaped the British Empire. By the 1950s, the idea of Empire began to decline, the conquering of other lands no longer a matter of celebration, in 1958 Empire Day was renamed Commonwealth Day. |
H595 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, c1920s.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – c1920s
A class of solemn faced boys, the lad in the centre of the front row is holding up a slate with “Holy Trinity Group V” written on it. In the left background is a blackboard with lines of copperplate style writing, a giant complimentary thermometer from Stephen’s Inks is at the back of the classroom. On the right is William Brooke, he became the longest serving Headmaster of the school, in post for 32 years from 1924 – 1956.
D428 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1927.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1927
A class of children, smiling faces with their teacher.
Back row, left to right: ?, Stanley Hudson, Stanley Baxter, Henry Rawnsley, Claude Exley, ?, ?, Geoffrey Kaye, Wilfred Lawn, ?.
3rd row, left to right: ?, Alice Dexter, Lilly Oddy, ?, ?, Iris Barker, Hilda William, Nancy Moore, Arnold Yeadon, William Brook – Headteacher.
2nd row, left to right: Elsie Widdowson, Clarice Riley, Mary Knott, Nancy Stansfield, Eunice Bolton, Eva Armitage, ?, Nola Exley, ?.
1st row, left to right: ?, Ronnie Smith, Ben Robertshaw, ?, Jim White, Horace Baratt, Wilfred Waite.
R542 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, c1920s.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – c1920s
Young pupils, some of them named:
Row 1 (Back) Left to Right: Dennis Ludley, Harry Barrett, ?., Jack Jowett, Jim Lupton, ?., Arnold Yeadon, Clifford Smith, Ronnie Smith.
Row 2 Left to Right: ?., Winston Steele, Claude Exley, Katleen Clayton, Gladys Frankland, ?., Frank Tomlinson, ?., Jack Gill.
Row 3 Left to Right: ?., ?., ? Rhodes, Lily Stephenson, Phyllis Carter, Mary Palliser, Doris Knight.
Row 4 (Front) Left to Right: Ernest Booth, / Elliott, ?., Bob Crowe, Geoffrey Kay, Ben Robertshaw, G Little.
Donated by Ann North.
H510 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, Undated.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – Undated
School class photo, Mr W Brooke, Headmaster is on the left, the chimney of Springhead Mill is in the background. Donated by Lynda Keith
H501 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, c1930s.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – c1930s
A class of children, smiling faces with their teacher.
A class of boys and girls with Headmaster William Brooke on the left of the back row, most of the girls look solemn but the boys expressions range from huge grins to glum.
Donated by Lynda Keith nee Brooke.
H520 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, c1930s
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – c1930s
School class photo,graph, William Brooke who was Headmaster for many years is on the left of the back row. In the background is the chimney of Springhead Mill.
Donated by Lynda Keith nee Brooke.
H530 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, c1930s.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – c1930s
A class of children, smiling faces with their teacher.
A class of boys and girls with Headmaster William Brooke on the left of the back row, most of the girls look solemn but the boys expressions range from huge grins to glum.
Donated by Lynda Keith nee Brooke.
H541 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, c1930s.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – c1930s
Class of children with teacher William Brooke on the left, he was Headmaster for many years.
Donated by Lynda Keith
J23 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1930.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1930
Infants in costume for a fancy dress parade.
J24 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1930.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1930
St. Oswald’s School, Guiseley.
R541 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1931.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1931
A news cutting featuring children from Guiseley schools named as “Tom Thumbites”, seemingly a children’s group or club run by the Yorkshire Evening News newspaper. Names noted as:
Back row left to right: S Hudson, K Ward, ? A Lawson, Gerald ? J Ward, H Rawnsley, ? Chadwick, W Gilks, E Crawford.
3rd row left to right: L Ward, ?, ? Sykes, then 3rd from right N Booth, C Riley, Fred Abbot.
2nd row left to right: E Young, B Chadwick, M Bunting, M Robinson, ? Exley, L Sims, ? ?
Front left to right: K Freeman, Esme Stocks, J Dixon, Tom Winter, Eddie Robinson, M Exley, L Smith. ?
Donated by Ann North.
“The children in the four smaller groups are Tom Thumb-ites who attend Guiseley Church School, and those in the larger group are some of our members at Guiseley Council School. In the middle of the front row of the big group are Eddie Robinson, Jack Dixon and Thomas Winter, the two former wearing the club’s silver medal awarded for having saved Thomas (centre) from drowning in a well. If the five boys and five girls 2 ringed” send their names, addresses and memberships numbers to Uncle Jack not later than Tuesday next, each will receive 2s.” (Two Shillings now 10p ED. 07 Nov 23.)
PU208 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1948.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1948
Boys from the school giving a PE display, behind them is Otley Road with the MAP bungalows at Nunroyd.
Peate’s, Nunroyd Mill, is on the right.
On the back of the centre row we believe is John Fawcett, brother of the donor Jane Blake.
The boy 2nd in from the right is Peter Jackson a friend of John Fawcett.
Donor of the photo Jane Blake.
J349 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1950s.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1950s
At the front are Jim Lupton, Tom Walton, Mrs Nunns, ? , Eddie Meachin.
Names and image supplied by John Lupton who adds “Behind Jim is I think Joan Sykes and maybe Mrs D B Ward.”
I479 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1953.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1953
The donor of these images John Lupton suggests that they were taken at a Coronation party , the teacher on the left wearing a dark coloured suit was Morwenna Kelly, the assistant teacher was Mrs Braum.
I480 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1953.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1953
As above.
FBA140 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1957.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1957
Mrs Denison’s Junior class, photographed outside the school.
Donated by Brian Firth.
I403 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1958.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1958
The teacher for this year would have been Mrs. D B Ward, the donor of this photo John Lupton has supplied the following names:
Back row, left to right: David Greenwood, John Selley, Barry Middleton, David Raw, Chris Hall, Marsden Claughton, Ian Penny, Bruce Roughton, Graham Elms, David Hannam and John Lupton.
Row 3, left to right: Carole Stobart, ?, Margaret Cook, Phyllis Wardle, ?, Isobel Houseman, ?,Patricia Barked, Joyce Gallimore, Jeannie Humphries, ? and Margaret Tesseyman.
Row 2, left to right: John Holmes, ?, Angela Scuffins, Margaret Burdess, Diane Kirby, Ruth Daniels, Elizabeth Gardner, Suzanne Wood and ?
Row 1, left to right: Charles McKenzie, Stuart Duffield, John Marshall, Andrea Roundhill, Linda Flatley, Lynne Wilson, Frank Jukes, Paul Normandale, Iain White and Nigel Griffin.
U803 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1958.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1958
Class photo taken in the summer of 1958, named as:
Back row: ? Nigel Hogg, Graham Philips, Mrs Sheldrick, Alan ? ? Donald ?
3rd row: Allan Jukes, Gerald Wood, ? Vincent Atherton, Stephen Waite, Graham Smith, Alan Jukes.
2nd row: Joan Taylor, Valerie Moxon (donor of the photo), Claire Jackson, Yvonne Saunders, Majorie Boocock, Ann Young, Janet Slingsby, Sheila Potts.
Front row: Christine Potts, Jane Reynolds, Pat Oddy, Margaret Kerton, ? Rebecca Leach, Jennifer Kay, Ruth Sutton, Janet Brown.
Donated by Val McCourt nee Moxon.
D446 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1966.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1966
Official opening of the school extension with two former Rectors of Guiseley.
On the left is Canon Wranghorn Hardy, in the centre is Archdeacon S E Lowe. On the right is Reginald Rawnsley, co-author of the “History of Guiseley Parish Church”.
K064 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1969.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1969
Guiseley C of E football team seen with a trophy.
Photographer Bryan Waite, donated by his family.
J409 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1969.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1969
Cast of a school play at St. Oswald’s School in Guiseley.
AA099 – St. Oswald’s (C of E) School, 1977.
St. Oswald’s (C of E) School – 1977
A plaque in St. Oswald’s Church which lists the past headmasters of the school, erected to honour William Brooke.
John Hill (also Curate) 1627
Henry Hoyle (also Curate) 1662
John Lambert 1704-1748
Nathaniel Hoyle 1751-1771
Tim Bailey in 1792
Thomas Uthank 1804
Still there in 1831
Abraham Smith in 1834
Robert Milton Dole in 1838-1842
John Taylor in 1843
Joseph Akers 1868-1874
Benjamin Smith 1874-1875
Samuel Wilkinson 1875-1879
Thomas Frizell 1879-1893
William Robert Hollingworth 1893-1924
William Brooke 1924-1956
Albert Edgar Blagg 1956-1966
Charles Denison St. Julien 1966-1976
Anthony G Robinson 1976-
In memory of William Brooke 1891-1964, Headmaster of the school for 32 years.
Previous Comments:
Re D428
ShirleyB
It is good to see this photo and chart of names on this site. I sent the photo and names to Martin Rigg for his book a number of years ago. My mum is on the photo. To find out the names of the other pupils I visited her school friends and her cousin in 1988, just after mum died.
10 August 2015.
Re K064
Some comments from our facebook page 20th May 2015:
Rachel O’Connor: So it is. Think the lad far right back row was Paul Goya? Roger Waite back left.
Tommy Broadwell: Looks like Robert Gill holding the cup.
Re J349
allserene
Mr Lupton literally changed my life and I went from bottom the class to top of the class under him. He taught me to make model ships out of cardboard and how to seal them with candle wax. I was fixing my house in Wisconsin yesterday, using measuring skills he taught me. That is my class and I recognize them all, except girls, I wasn’t keen on girls at that time.. but I am missing ! Where am I…Mr Lupton lived in the prefabs opposite Peate’s Mill.
20 May 2017.
Re J409
Facebook comments 1st August 2017:
Stephen Wilson: Front row, end right, Adrian Sessions?
Graham Wadsworth: That’s Adrian Ramsden.
Stephen Wilson: Graham Wadsworth, yes I remember now, he used to live round the corner to me on Coppice Wood Avenue.
Wendy Webster: Behind Adrian Ramsden, Roger Cawood. Also on pic Tim leach, Christine Newman, Chris Dobson, Roger Waite, Robert Webster, Paul Goya, Paul Heaton. Not so sure about anybody else. Definitely St. Oswald.s. Jim Lupton wrote it.
Robert Scully: I think the kid in the middle, front row is me. Back row third from right is John Robson.
Judith Thackray: Ah, Wendy Webster you haven’t changed a bit…
Wendy Webster: Omg, Judith, I remember it well. I had to sing a solo xx
Re J349
Queensway
Allserene, you may well be in the same position as me. Where am I? I suspect NOT in Mrs Ward’s 1958 class, but in Eddie Meachin’s 1959 class, where I knew about two thirds to three quarters of these people, and me and Frank Jukes brought in the milk and ran the coal out to the prefabs. And I loved Isobel Houseman to bits. Wisconsin? Got as close as Montana and Wyoming, six weeks ago. I’m in rural Wellington NZ. Guiseley kids went everywhere, eh?
29 September 2018.
Re J349
Comments from our facebook page:
Elizabeth Webb: I remember Mr Lupton and Mr Meachin (some years later) as teachers at St. Oswald’s School.
Christine Robinson: Mrs Jennings there in the background.
Angie Gilbert: I also remember Mr Lupton, he gave me violin lessons, he was my favourite teacher. I also remember Mr Meachin, he scared everyone, throwing blackboard rubbers at the class, never did us any harm though!!! St. Oswald’s.
Betty Dodsworth: I remember Mr Lupton, he was a teacher at St. Oswald’s School in Guiseley.
Liz Vernon: Mr lupton was my teacher a kind man.
Re J349
JHWellsMount
Mr Meacham was also ‘famous’ for giving you ‘the slipper’ which was actually a white plimsole!
20 October 2019.
Re D428
gary
Hi Shirley,
It’s still nice to look back at old pictures of Guiseley, I myself was was at St. Oswald’s school in the 1960s.
The picture with your mum on looks like it was taken at the side of the school just off the Green, but the one sent by Lynda Keith looks like it was taken at the rear of the school with the chimney of Peats Mill in the back ground and not spring Head Mill.
Regards, Gary W.
06 February 2022.
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Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw. 21 May 2022.
Last updated: 20 January 2024 – Photo ID: U803. 07 November 2023 – Photo ID: R541. 16 October 2023 – Photo ID: H501, H520, H530, H541, H595. 22 October 2022 – Text updated on I403.
