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These
images should bring
back a few memories
for you
younger ones, perhaps whet some appetites. These Eric Johnson photos are dated roughly late 1960's, and some of these children may well have been amongst those that moved to Dorchester Road when the Old School closed in 1976. We have the registers only up to 1973, as sadly, the last three years were lost in a bad flood they had down Leads Road. These little guys and gals will be somewhere in their 60s now, with grandkids of their own. 
 
Don't
know who told us, but
there is a rumour about
that the faded Four
Circles may be restored.
Those who were there will know what we mean. They can be seen on the aerial photo below. DOMINOES READING BOOKS How many recall the ‘Dominoes’ series of reading books for early years pupils? These
w We
have quite a little
collection of these in
the museum, courtesy
of former pupil Diane
E Sharp, who gave us
her whole collection
of the blue and pink
covered titles. We’re
still missing a
couple, which we would
readily scan on the
spot and return to
owners if they’d
loaned them to us.
The children in these books are surely the parents and grandparents of some local Sutton and Hull children today. It may interest folks to know that the whole photo collection we hold of former headmaster, Eric Johnson, is now quite considerable. There are some 110 individual photos from these ‘Dominoes’ books, around 46 older b&w studies from the late ‘40s and the ‘50s, of class and team photos. Then there are the original slides we copied some years back, glorious full colour photographic studies, many of which would easily have been prize winners in competitions of their day. We have 62 of those. So in total, well over 200 photos of Sutton children over the years, albeit most of them of the later years, late ‘60s and into the 1970s. All saved digitally, and all can be viewed on the museum computer on request on Fridays. By any standards, that is some village collection. Folks will appreciate that we can’t put the whole collection online, only a few of them occasionally at a time … webspace has to be paid for, and we have a considerable amount up here already.
TWO
SUTTON VIEWS
Here's another view
most of you would
not have seen from
this angle, but I'd
bet many of you
former
pupils will see many
things to recognise
in this cracking
quality photo. I've
scanned it good
quality and left it
big enough to fill
the screen.
Click to open in a
new browser window,
and see it enlarged.
It will show full
screen if you know
how; pressing F11
helps, or sometimes
Fn+F11, depends on
your keyboard setup.
See what you can
pick out, what
features take you
back years and years
.... something tells
me this was a school
day, and this was in
the morning before
break time. One
feature, almost
unnoticeable, is a
real joy, being
Eric Johnson's
greenhouse. Former
headmaster Mr
Johnson was keen
on gardening, and
just as keen on
introducing
children to this
valuable hobby. So
the pupils had a
thriving little
garden at the back
of the school.
This is the only
known image we
have of it. Many
thanks to Pam (neé
Suddaby) and Rob
for bringing this
in for us. A
lovely quality
pic. Update:
though we do have
some short clips
from John Riley's
cine film of the
boys helping to
build and assemble
it. Hope to
show some of that
soon in a
'presentation.'
Another
quality
photo from Pam here
on the left that may
bring back distant
memories for Sutton
folk. In a way,
although a mile or
two distant from the
village itself, this
scene almost
epitomises what
Sutton felt like
back then, rural, a
bit out of the way,
peaceful and with
definite overtones
of the old world of
England long
ago. Castle
Hill Road was a very
popular venue for a
Sunday afternoon
walk, and many boys
and girls will
remember playing
amongst those trees
on the old mound,
just near Castle
Hill Farm, now sadly
no more.
Several
local farms of
fond memory have
long since ceased
to exist. Old
Sutton folk that
revisit often ask
us exactly where
it was, as they
are confused by
the newer Noddle
Hill Way cutting
right across it,
actually not far
from where this
drain bridge was
and behind the
camera. If you can
find it on your
map, and take a
straight line
across Noddle
Hill, the old lane
cuts right through
where Biggin
Hill School
is now, and would
exit onto Wawne
Road roughly
opposite
Barnstaple Road
today.
Another of Pam's
precious keepsakes
that she has donated
to our museum is
this Victory
Charter, signed by
the King, a copy of
which was given to
every schoolchild in
Hull - maybe
nationwide too, I
don't know.
Click the image to
enlarge and
read. The
reverse side has a
sort of 'war diary'
of notable wartime
events, of defeats
and victories and is
a sort of memory
jogger to children
who grew up during
those times. A fine bit of English journalism for it's time, that explains it very clearly, without undue drama, so it is almost visual in the imagination -- I couldn't have put it better myself. Having said that, do click the link above to view it ... amazing!
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KEN
COOKE'S
DRAWINGS
Progress on archiving the late Ken Cooke's pen and ink drawing collection is now complete. We have now scanned and catalogued 107 in total, unless anyone knows of any more. A good 60 or so are of other villages out and about around East Yorkshire. A lady met me at the gate as I unlocked a week or so ago. Beverley had come all the way from Australia tracing her family history. She had a good list of graves to search for, by the name of 'Ashton', in both Sutton and at Wawne, and several other villages round and about. But, sad to say, we could not find one single record or grave photo. All we could say was that, for graves of the era she was searching for, 1700s-early 1800s, they would be fairly close to the church itself. But, if there had been headstones, they had gone by the time the Monumental Inscription booklet was compiled and published in the early 1970s, so no photo or record of any headstone either as that archive is the Bernard Sharpe Collection, which he started in 2008. So apart from a cup of coffee and our best wishes for the rest of her holiday, it was a fruitless search. Her info was from reliable sources, Ancestry, FindMyPast and FamilySearch, which also gave her baptisms back to the 1700s, so we know her folks are in there. Just no stone left to see, and no record either, other than what is in the old record books now held at The Treasure House in Beverley. A great shame. It's not often that happens, drawing a total blank. Former pupil John Wall brought us photos of his late parents' shop. Many will remember the former WALL'S store near "The  Ship
Inn". He
also brought
us some photos
of horses and
ponies they
used
to own, soon
to be posted
on "The
Pinfold"
page.
John went to
Cavendish Rd
School, and
remembers many
of his
contemporaries
that were
friends that
came to this
school.
I'm guessing
many pupils
here bought
their crisps
and sweets in
his mum and
dad's shop. Just for fun, click the first vase of flowers on the Home Page for a musical puzzle. The puzzle was a charming love message, from a soldier based in Sutton in WW1, Cpl Barlow of the RGA, to his longed-for sweetheart. Men were romantic, and charming, and real gentlemen in those days. Most old pupils will get it, though I doubt many today will. I'm not 'musical', can't play a note, but I got it. Always remember 'the scales'. Another visitor was former pupil here Alex Watson. Whom we now know was the donor of a small collection of school class photos from the late 1950s to 1963, taken by Eric Johnson. I only posted one of them on this site last night, taken from a part of Merrill's photo collection, but unamed. I had no idea where they had come from; now we know they were Alex's, left to us by him anonymously one day on a CD he had prepared. It's quite a little set. Go to the Home Page, find the graphic of the school, and click one of the white circles on the school wall. Old girls will remember playing ball to those circles, and the boys cricket at the painted white stumps below. |
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The
memory is
prompted by
recent visits
by ex-Sutton
residents to
the museum and
pouring over
our huge photo
collections,
and also some
of the scanned
pen & ink
drawings by
the late Ken
Cook.
There are
several
featuring
scenes on
Leads Rd,
including the
old garage
once owned by
Ken's parents
who lived at
Springfield
Cottage.
Quite a lot of
local young
folk, now in
their late
teens and
early
twenties, will
remember this
house as being
their 'Cherub
Nursery' up
until quite
recently in
memory terms,
only some five
years ago or
so, albeit
with a huge
extension on
the side
nearest this
corner.
Time moves on,
scenes change,
and memories
are made to be
filed away in
the back of
our minds,
only to be
brought back
to life by an
unexpected
image such as
this. There
are many more
on these pages
... explore,
enjoy! 
The
very observant
will note
that, in the
view of the
school, the
playground is
still fully
concreted, and
we can just
see the tip of
Mr Johnson's
greenhouse
peeping out in
from the other
side of the
dividing fence
behind the new
vicarage, in
front of the
white hut, the
senior pupil's
classroom by
that time.
Memories!!
but not
quite ....this GOOGLE info re-aligned
from the top of the page .....
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GOOGLE
and our website
It
is with much sadness, and a
great amount of 'miff',
that we have to announce the closure of our previously free Google Website, the one you used to be able to see when you click on our Old School on Google Maps. For
those who have never seen it,
this link takes you, for now
.....
GOOGLE US. From March 1st, the website we have there will no longer show, but just the main profile of your main website manager, that's me! I created and maintain it under my own name. Then, from June 10th, it will not show you anything at all, just a bland notice saying it has all closed. Really thrilling news. Yes, very miffed indeed. We will of course, still have this main website, the one we pay for privately, and incidentally, is paid for by your generous donations. On the Google site as it shows now, there is of course a link that takes you directly to this site, but that ultimately will be withdrawn. Perhaps we should not be complaining. After all, the Google site has always been free, the only input required was the extra amount of learning this tired old brain needed to master in order to make sense and best use of it, to place photos, announcements, etc. It hasn't cost us a penny, so far, offered by the goodness and largesse of one of the world's largest and richest technology companies. But I strongly sense here that there will be soon a requirement, a 'request', for us to shell out some of our funds to keep our placement on Google Maps too. Like with most tech companies today, here now comes the rub off, just as many of you are finding currently with internet companies and their marvellously 'cheap' subscription deals to undermine KC. Like fish, we are all on very sharp hooks. So, if any of you run a small business, and trade is enhanced by your placement on Google Maps, beware .... times are a'changing. No doubt the tech companies will make a fortune building you a new site to replace your Google one. But not here, they shouldn't even ask us. I have enough trouble remembering all the tricks to maintain this one you're reading now. But, for the most part, you'll have no choice but agree and pay up. Government calls all this 'trade' and 'economics' .. I suspect most of us have another old English word for it - I'm still allowed to use English, I think - .... Corruption. And
if you don't subscribe to keep
your place on their maps, your
business will surely
suffer.
Oh, you can be well assured, they'll make very sure of that. Just
like with the Post Office and
our own Government,
you can't fight them. You will not win! Never. 10
January 2024
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. . . so it's
time to
consult our 
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published nationwide,
but the photos were by
Sutton St James’
headmaster, Mr Eric
Johnson, under
contract from the
Department of
Education at the time.
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