Our thanks go to Peggy Heason who had kept photos and newspaper cuttings of these events over the years. Kinza Evans , her granddaughter, passed these along to us which we are forever grateful.
The official opening of Tollerton School took place in 1963. The headmistress was Mrs E D Gretton and the ceremony was performed by Miss Milford pf the Nottingham Girls’ High School.
The school, on a three acre site, was designed to accommodate 160 pupils in four classrooms, each with it’s own cloakroom and toilet facilities. There was a multi-purpose assembly hall. The project cost £25,922.
The class of 1964. The names listed on the photo don’t specify where the children are but they are:
D Woodcock; H West; A Bently; P Stevens; B Hill; A Wilson; ? Broughton; R Booth and M Stephenson (picture by John Booth)
School staff 1976 picture by Dick Shepherd
Back row 4th from right: Mrs Atkinson
Front row: not known; Elvia Pycroft; Mrs Shepherd; Mrs Gretton (Headmistress); not known; not known
1967 School Play
1976 School Play
Above was in the Nottingham Evening Post of 29 January 1997
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