| The school opened in 1925 in the school building that had been Hayway Infant school. When a new boys' school was opened in Tennyson Road in 1949, the boys gradually moved to that school and by 1959 the boys and girls were all segregated. Miss Boyes became headmistress of the newly formed "North End School" and it later changed its name again becoming the Secondary School for Girls. A new school was built on land adjoining Spencer Park under another new name : Rushden Comprehensive School for Girls with Miss Leach as headmistres. The old school was then used by Alfred Street as an infant department, leaving all the Alfred Street premises as a junior school. |
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In about 1990 this photograph Frank Eady sent to the Evening Telegraph with the following information:
This was the first intake at Rushden Intermediate School. Among them is the late Harry Bailey, former Mayor of Higham Ferrers (1st left front row); the late Alan Allebone, boss of Allebone’s shoe company (3rd left front row), and Frank Eady who ran a printing firm in Denmark Road (2nd right, 2nd row).
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This photograph has just been sent in (Dec 2008) by Graham Penness, whose father is first left back row. He thinks they went to the old White City Stadium.
Most surnames are written onto the photograph.
If you can help us with forenames, or the two
missing names, please contact us.
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Back row: Penness, Bailey, Kilsby, - , Patrick, Wilmott, Henson?
Front row: Sail, Piper, Eaton, Drage, - , Albon.
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Intermediate School Sports 1933-4
Back row: ?, Mumford, "Bunt" Heartwell, Tom Bailey, Tew, Fentiman, Neville Salisbury.
Middle row: Joyce Ingram, Joyce Glennister, Tom Percival, Gilbert Houghton, Mumford, Dorothy Toby, Olive King.
Front row: Edna Partidge, Doreen Smith, Barbara Cunnington, Evelyn Whitby, Margaret Drage, Phyllis Walker, Nora Kilsby.
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Year 3 in 1935
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The teachers at the Intermediate School in 1935.
Mr Howitt was the headmaster.
Later Miss Boyes became headmistress of the Rushden Girls School, after reorganisation of the education system.
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left-right - Mr Howitt, Miss Boyes, Mr Guardam,
Miss Buttling, Mr Entwistle, Mrs Hensman,
Miss Smith and Mr Clark
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This photograph is about 1938 with
the Inter-School Sports Shield.
Fourth from the right, front row is
Betty Warrington who moved there
from Newton Bromswold village school. Betty lived in Avenue Road, Court Estate, but now lives in Iowa, USA. (2008)
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Front row: 7th from left - Beryl Seamarks, then Betty Warrington,
Peggy Groome, Pauline Scroxton, Brenda Weaver
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