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The Rushden Echo & Argus, 8th November 1929, transcribed by Gill Hollis.
Miss Wagstaff's School c1887


Our information is that the picture was made about 1887 in the old school yard in Coffee Tavern Lane. Among those who can be identified are Walter Ette, Harry Warren, Mabel Perkins, Ernest Denton (top row). May Hazeldine (second row). Harry Ekins, Laura Wheeler, Conrad Timpson, Harry Smith (third row). Maud Percival, Gladys Colson, Charles Robinson, Florence Percival, Oliver Scholes, William Ginns, and Edgar Higgins.

The head-mistress was Miss Gena Wagstaff.


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