LANDMARK: Valley valour on show; all our yesterdays COUNCIL AND CHURCH SCHOOLS in the 1930s

Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England), April 21, 2009

WE'RE at opposite ends of the Colne Valley for these two pictures.

Most of the lads in cricket whites were still at school, but they played a blinder in 1953, winning the Walker Cup: they were Paddock Cricket Club Third XI, the juniors.

The picture comes from Roy Isles of Beaumont Park, third from left, back row.

(From back left): Ian Greenwood, Greg Ellis, Roy, Mike Thornton, Alex Thornton, Roy Chapman, David Haigh; (front): Stewart Blakeley, Chris Balderson, Derek Senior, Frank Jarman and Keith Wood.

The photo left, from Shirley Mair, nee Ward, of Lindley, is of Miss Whittell's class at Marsden Modern School in 1945/50.

"This was the year we left to start work," said Shirley. "I can put a face to a lot of the names, but rather than make a mistake, I've listed all the class.

They'll know who they are!" The girls are Shirley herself, Nancy Hall, Sheila Kaye, Shirley Hirst, Barbara Sykes, Brenda Moorhouse, Dorothy Singleton, Rhoda Roebuck, Audrey Hinchliffe, Maureen Pickles, Eunice Hirst, Joan Wright, Mary Yates, Nancy Nicholls, Jenny Hinchliffe, Eileen Coldwell, Shirley Wilkinson, Maureen Abbott and Kathleen Hanson.

The boys are Alan Dyson, Peter Silkstone, Geoffrey Speight, Alan Brook, Norman Pickles, Frank Heppenstall, Stuart Cross, John Whitehead, Ronald Hewson, Malcolm Campbell, Michael Quarmby, T Mellor, Clive Milnes and Roy Wood. ( S)

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* PLAYING ON: Paddock thirds (juniors), the Walker Cup finalists in 1953