Retro: Were you in this class?

Correspondent • Published 17 Sep 2009 06:00 0 Comments

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MARGARET Achurch has written to Retro from South Australia asking for help with a photograph taken 60 years ago.

She said: "I was sorting out photographs a short time ago and came across this photograph taken in 1949 at Alfred Sutton Junior School. The class had just presented The Water Babies as a puppet show.

"I am writing to see whether any of your readers recognise themselves. I am standing at the back on the right of the picture, third from the end, and can name many of the students in the class. My name was Margaret Ball, but since 1959, I have been Mrs Achurch.

"Peter (my husband) also went to the same junior school but he left in 1948 and went on to Reading School as did quite a few boys in the photograph. Peter and I left Cornwall where we had made our home with our four children to start a new life in South Australia in 1972.

"We really love living here. Peter trained for Ministry in the Anglican Church in Australia and was ordained in 1982. We now have five grandchildren, two of whom are married. I would dearly love to hear from anyone who would like to write."

- ROY Wheeler thinks he has a clue to help with last week's mystery about Reading being painted in giant white letters.

He says: "I own a postcard of Tonbridge. Kent, which shows the roof of the platform at the station, with Tonbridge written on it. I understand pilots flying out of Croydon aerodrome used to fly along the railway from Croydon to Dover on their way to Paris. Several stations had their name painted on their platform roofs in this way."

In Reading the lettering was laid out in a grass field - does anyone know where, how big, or what the lettering was made of? Answers to Adam Hewitt on 0118 955 3303.

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