It is very cold, and we have freezing fog which is very beautiful with all the trees and bushes outlined in frost and nothing visible beyond the garden except a whiteness which fills the air and cloaks the prospect. Sadly these pictures don't really capture that loveliness.
Beautiful it may be, but also very scary to drive in. Fortunately it is half-term so I don't have to go anywhere in particular until next weekend when I am going to supper with Carolyn on Saturday and to Maureen's (Issy's and Becky's mother) 70th birthday lunch on Sunday, although we are running out of catfood and sooner or later I shall have to brave the road to the supermarket.
I have been occupying my time with getting the photographs for the Church Festival exhibitionn ready. This year our theme is Swallow People, and I have been printing and laminating pictures of the school children from the 1930s to the 1960s when the school closed and became the Village Hall. Oddly we have nearly every child identfied up to 1958, but not those from the 1960s. I have asked my brother-in-law who was the oldest child in the school when it closed in 1967, but he didn't move there from his previous school until quite late in his primary career and is not a lot of help.
Here are the photos, and this is a list of all the children who were in the school at the time it closed:
1. Glenvyl Arthur Thompson
2. Michael Melton
3. Paul Hammond
4. Michael Goddard
5. Paul Whillock
6. Mark Richards
7. Timothy James Winn
8. Andrew Keith Dixon
9. Frazer Matthew Melton
10. David John Ritson
11. Valerie Ann Hammond
12. Elaine Hewson
13. Ruth Lidgett
14. Pat Welton
15. Susan Dixon
16. Caroline Ann Baldock
17. Jacqueline Karen Newsom
18. Marie Ann Ritson
19. Pauline Janet Metcalf
20. Susan Margaret Baldock
21. Deborah Elizabeth Dixon
22. Rosemary Baldock
23. Susan Ann Metcalf
24. Sharon Redfearn
However it is, in terms of children's lives at primary school, a whole generation from 1960 to 1967. Nonetheless, as well as Glen, there are still members of the Metcalf, Baldock and Dixon families in the village, so that's a start, but I am going to have to get this off to the local papers to get all the information I need.
lizdavies
We have had brilliant sparly frost, rather than fog. If I didn't have you to reming me, I would have forgotten the names of lots of the children in our school photos - except I'm quite good at writing names on the back!