Photo: Steve Odell

General photograph of the site of Wimpole Park looking north east.

See also:
Site Index
Wimpole Park Index
Arrington School
Wimpole Park Seniors c1950 (below)

Wimpole Park School Senior Pupils, 10 July 1953
Photograph kindly loaned by Irene Bruce (née Lowe).
Names recorded on photograph in 1953.

Image: 10 July 1950, pupil group, quality of the available image (print) is rated ''excellent'.
Location: In front of the school building at Wimpole Park, inside the Arrington Gates on the Wimpole Hall Estate.

Wimpole Park School senior pupils in front of the school on the 10 July 1953. The school building was originally part of the wartime US Army's 163rd General Hospital. The whole site has now been returned to pasture (photo left).

Back row (standing left to right): Robert Arnold, Colin Christy, Robert Neaves, Basil Davenport, Arthur Brown, Tony Morris, Barry Charter.

Third row (standing left to right): Ruth Upton, Rose-Mary Bullen, Josephine Arnold, Marjorie Chapman, Colleen Starling, Valerie Lewis, Margaret Green, Christine Arnold, Irene Lowe.

Second row (sitting on chairs left to right): Kenneth Jude, Brian Osbourn, Rita Clarke, Maureen Dance, Mr Mitchell (teacher), Sylvia Goffin, Ann Cornett, Richard Presland, Stanley Smythe.

Front row (sitting on grass left to right): George Reynolds, Frank Thorpe, William Orchard, John Lewis, Henry Booth.

Irene Bruce (née Lowe) has written an account of her childhood at Arrington and Old Wimpole which includes reminiscences of her time at Wimpole Park School.