Help wanted with Primary Staff photo of 1952.

 

This photo appeared in the School Magazine in December 1952.   This was just a few years after I left Primary in June 1949 to go to Secondary in August 1949, but I can recognise very few of the teachers.   Can you help?     The quality of the photo is not very good since the original was published as a “screened” print”.     I asked the School if they had any original prints of staff during our time at the Primary School but they have nothing.

 

I think the following key may be correct.

 

3 Miss Chalmers,   5 Miss Ingram (why did she always wear a collar and tie?)  6 Miss McNab,   9 Miss Brooksby (infants),   12  Miss Hornshaw,  13 Mr Davidson? (Second Master)  14  Miss McLeod,  16  Miss E Hamilton, 15  Mrs Riley,  17  Jessie Stevenson (I had her for 2 years)   18 Miss Ironsides? (“Tin-ribs”) 19 Miss MacIntyre 20  Miss Inglis   21  Miss Mitchell    22 James Stewart, headmaster (I got six of the belt from him after I accidentally bumped into him on the busy stairs between classes),  23 Miss MacPherson (friend of Miss Ingram) 24 Miss Bryden  25 Miss McNeilly,  26 Miss A Mackenzie.

 

From the “Here and There” section of the School Magazines between 1949 and 1952 there are some notes on staff movements:

Miss Agnes Hamilton and Miss Walton left in 1950

Hugh K Frew (I had him for 2 years including my “Qualifying” year) and Mr Marshall left during 1951

 

 

 

 

Happy reminiscing, and I hope you can identify even a few. ( I have had 2 identifications in recent months)

                       

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