Melanie Hymes
Melanie has memories of attending Guilden
Sutton Primary School and has kindly sent us pictures from 1974/5
Melanie's most vivid memories of school (aged 8)
was walking there on her own, and having to be very careful crossing
the busy
main
road - (mum's rules - always cross with an adult) - which she did.
At mid- morning break, pupils drank warm milk from little glass
bottles using a straw. Sometime during the day pupils then
took a nap by resting their heads on their desks, and pretending to
be asleep (some kids actually did!).
Her first photo records the celebration of the retirement of Mrs
Dutton, Melanie's teacher when she started at the school, and very
much loved.
Another strong memory
relates to the old tradition of Maypole dancing at the
school. Melanie tells of how she would
always be in the practice, but never actually got picked to do the
dancing
on the special day. Names were picked from a hat as everyone
was good at
it. She's actually in the crowd, somewhere in this newspaper
cutting.
Colin Affleck
Colin wrote from Canada to say that that
relatives in Guilden Sutton seemed to have enjoyed visiting our Bird
in Hand public house in years gone by.
His late mother, Beryl Affleck (nee Dodd) who passed away in April 2007,
used to tell him that on Saturday nights in the late 1920's or early
'30's she and a cousin were detailed off by her Dad, Thomas Dodd, to
ride their bikes down from their house on Well Lane, to the
Pub. There they waited until closing time, when they
were to extract their Grandad, Joseph Dodd, and escort him home.
Saturdays were a special evening for Joseph, so the cousins would
push their bikes home with Joseph singing bawdy songs the whole
way. (However, as he was a bell ringer and was in the choir at
St John's, he would switch to hymns as he passed the church!)
Colin informed us that even earlier, his great-grandad,
Samuel Dodd was a patron of the Bird in Hand as well.
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Victoria Morgan
Victoria used to live at 80 Oaklands but has lived in
Canada for the past 25 years. She
has sent us a very good photo taken at Guilden Sutton Primary School in 1979
(photo Geoff Newcombe).
Victoria
has identified the staff, but others have suggested different
identities. If you know differently, please let us know, but these
are the most likely:-
Centre
is Miss Constance Stone (Headmistress) and left to
right on the back row, the other teachers pictured are Ms Bingham, unknown,
Suzanne Edwards, Jill Hughes, Sylvia King, Shirley Nield, Mrs Mellor, Mr
Smith
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Mrs Dorothy Morgan
Mrs Morgan's family
research has revealed that her grandfather and family lived at 3 Heath Bank,
Guilden Sutton, way back in 1908.
She was amazed to realise
that the family of 2 adults and 6 children had lived together in the house.
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