Mr Ballance 1890

Class of 1920

Top Class of 1929 with Mr Pickerell Rev Richmond and Mr Smith.

 

Tunstead Standard 3 1947

Second left and next row to the back row, Jim Worswick.

Tunstead Teachers 1949

Back row: George Smith, Jean Pilling, Jim Barnes.

Front row: Ennis Holt, Margaret Hodgson, Hubert Smith, Elsie Brown.

Bessie Ashworth.

 

 

  

 

Class of 1986

 

 

 

Situated on the corner of Newchurch Road and Baldwin Street this was the "Old Tunstead " school. The Headmaster being a Mr Moses Brown whom it would seem really didn't enjoy his job at all and suffered quite a lot of ill health.

The "New Tunstead School " started being built in 1881 to accommodate 750 children  the school  was formerly opened on November 12th 1882 by Mr R.W. Munn of Heath Hill. The children walking in procession from the " Old School " to the new school. Mr Moses Brown continuing as Headmaster until June 1890 when he died. Following the death of Moses Brown Mr T.H. Ballance was appointed Headmaster of Tunstead in July 1890.

 

 

Standard 1 Class 1946-1947

 

5th back row ? Peter Hargreaves, Raymond Knight, ? Stuart Shaw, Raine Ashworth.

4th row: Roderick Morris, ? ,?, Brian Pearson, Brian Morris, Edward Johnson, Melvin Dew, Davy Wilde.

3rd row: Beryl Tomlinson, Margery Jones, Margaret Williams, Betty Gillibrand, Sheila Piper, Margaret Greenwood, Vera Crisp

Deanna Fothergill, Jean Buckley, Barbara Campion.

2nd row: Mary Whiteby, Joan Meeks, Pamela Wyatt, Margaret Thomas, Geraldine Ratcliffe, Margaret Lord, ?, Renee Rumfit, Dorothy Riley.

1st Front row: ?, ? , Kenneth Spencer.

 

 

 

Back Row: Billy Partridge, Graham Bracewell, Stanley Wright, Alec Burton, ?, Keith Bull, James Berry.

3rd Row: Jim Law, Ian Gregory, Vernon Garrard, Barry Holden, Taylor, Jim Lord, Michael Johnson, Lawrence Thomas,.

2ndRow: Norma Kershaw, Barbra Douglas, Barbra Lomas, Margaret Sunderland, Amy Donaldson, ?, Joan Howarth, Dorothy Holden.

Front Row: ?, Jacqueline Holland, ?, Ann Barcroft, Jean Holt, ?, ?, Margaret Barcroft.

Seated: Jim Crossley, Jim Parkinson.

 

 

 

Children from Tunstead November 24th 1973 Rehearsing a modern version of the Christmas Story

1981

Snow White Tracey Boswell,  and her seven dwarfs.

Jonathan Hugger, Phil Gansler, Neville Henderson, John Martin, Andrew Crabtree, Peter Roden,  and Stephen Halstead.

 

*Information Courtesy Tunstead Jubilee Booklet By Mr Martin*

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

Extracts from Tunstead School Log  Book

 

 

1930

 

Reception Class of 1935.

 

  

 1948

5th Back row: John Taylor, Alan Taylor, John Lytton, Donald Fothergill, Kenneth Driver, Keith Yates, Peter Knight.

4th row: Stanley Hale, Roland ? , Derek Hinton, Billy Ramsbottom.

Keith Halshaw, Fred Todd, Geoffrey Pickup, Keith Worswick, ? .

3rd row: Hazel Ager, Eileen Ayrton, Dorothy Horan, Mary Lytton, Renee Orrell, Pat Allen, Barbara Wright, Lois Cooke.

2nd row: Barbara Collinge, Sheila Rawstron, Jean Livesey, Doreen Lord, Joan Kershaw, Mavis Bennet, Maureen Atkinson.

June Halshaw, Kathleen Butcher.

1st Front row: Jackie Hitch, Donald Cooper, Tom Lord.