Title | Little London School 1846 – 1960 |
Date | c1895 |
Location | Rawdon |
Photo ID | N769 |
Comment | An undated (c1895) faded image of Little London School pupils with the name Carrie Croxon on the caption. See below… |
Editor’s Note: Both images N769 & 756 below, are being shared from the Kendall Family Album which we are extremely grateful.
Robert Milligan paid for this school to be built on Micklefield Lane. It was run on Christian principles but with no specific allegiance to a particular church.
It was also utilised as a Baptist Sunday School and a Mechanics Institute only infants were taught there from 1920 until it closed in 1960.
Little London School Pupils – 1922
A class of infants are seen here with a Noah’s Ark, their names were:
Back row left to right: Lester Thomas, Tom Smith, Malcolm Chambers, George Bell, Tom Beel, Kenneth Hewitt, Raymond Osset and teacher, Miss Greenwood.
Front row from left to right: Elsie Thomas, Tom Coultas, Lizzie Calvert, Joan Lockwood, Madge Prince, ( ? ) Neville Knight, Susie Jenkinson, Jennie Hardy, Alan Grimshaw.
The boy in front on the left is Ronnie Chambers, the boy on the right is unknown.
Little London School Pupils – 1942
The adults on the left side are Mr and Mrs George Prince. To the right is Headmistress, Miss Simms and Mr Ernest Lawson.
2nd row up end of left hand side is Iris Chamberlain.
4th row up 10th child along the right hand side is Eileen Illingworth and on her left is her sister Joan Illingworth.
Back row girl in the middle, Sandra Cole her brother Gordon Cole, curly haired boy end of back row left hand side.
Mr. Lawson owned a garage on Leeds Road approximately 300 meters past the Rawdon Co-op and lived at Ivy House on Over Lane.
Consolidated by Jack Brayshaw – 19 January 2021.
Last updated: 27 October 2023 – Photo ID: N769 & N756. 24 September 2022 – All Images. 19 February 2021. Photo ID: I015. Additional text.