THESE smartly dressed youngsters were pupils at Hough-on-the-Hill School, in 1894.
Youngsters dressed in their best for school photo
The wonderfully ornate building is in the background.
Having a school photograph taken was a special occasion in those days and the headteacher is wearing a button hole.
The board in front of them reads Hough School Group 1,
6th November, 1894.
The school closed in the early 1980s.
The picture was taken by Grantham photographer F. G Simpson, whose studio was at 17 Wharf Road, which is opposite the Baptist Church.
The picture was brought in by Kate Morgan, of Caythorpe.
Photo: 6135K01
Dinner ladies
Dinner ladies
ISAAC Newton School kitchens closed in the late 1980s. These ladies worked there in 1979, and were photographed with head teacher Ian McGarry.
From left are, back – Frances Griffiths, Madelaine Crawford, Eileen Hanbury, Norma Meadows, Margaret Rimmington, Ann Frazier and Sheila Lambley; front – Carole Leeson Ann Defusto, Mr McGarry, Helen Toulson and Barbara Berry.
The picture was sent in by Eileen, of Bramblewood Close, Grantham. Photo: 6606K
Can you remember these library staff?
Can you remember these library staff?
DOES anyone recognise the three ladies in this photograph? It was taken by Grantham solicitor John Norton in his garden at Great Gonerby.
The young girl is Ruth Layne, who sent in the picture but all she can recall is that they all worked at Grantham Public Library on St Peter's Hill, which then had the museum upstairs.
* Contact John Pinchbeck (Tel: 01476 402984 or e-mail GranthamPast@gmail.com).
Ginger wasn't the only horseMARILYN Bevan, of Goodliff Close, said the picture of Ginger the Co-op horse would have been taken in about 1958.
She said: "My father, Cecil Blankley, worked on the milk rounds and he was the last one to work with Ginger. There was a second horse called Dobbin."
* HAZEL Tebb, of Long Bennington, has come up with some names to the picture of the Church Trees Club, published two weeks ago.
They are: Sian Barrow, Joyce Botelho, Margaret Dodwell, Les Lyons, Eileen Spire, Jim Fortleigh, T. Spicer, Geoff Gilbert, Molly Clough, Wilf ?, David Harrison, Douglas Bishop, Diane Angus, Sam and Alice Stirling, G. Thornton, Marion Gilbert, Tom Tebb, Win and Arthur Locket, Paul Dobney, Jim Harrop, Hilda Grimwood, Mrs Harrison, ? Graham, Mr Short and Frank Thornley.
10 Years AgoGRANTHAM Town FC showed the red card to its president, former Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, after it was claimed she ignored chairman Alan Prince's plea to be more involved.
* The Journal launched an appeal to raise £20,000 for the Grantham division of St John Ambulance towards buying it a new ambulance.
* A history lesson on world wars at Central School, Rushcliffe Road, was ended abruptly and the bomb disposal squad called in to detonate a live anti-aircraft shell brought in by a pupil as an exhibit.
* There was a 2,191-crowd at the Meres to see Dr Martens Midland Division leaders Grantham Town beat second-placed Ilkeston Town 6-0.
* More than 700 people gathered at Belvoir Castle to light a beacon fire as a curtain-raiser to the Countryside Rally in London.
25 Years AgoTHE driver of a ready-mix concrete lorry had a lucky escape when it tipped over after its wheels slipped into a roadworks trench on Harrowby Lane, Grantham.
* Grantham armaments maker BMARC was featured in a Granada TV World in Action programme which probed the supply of arms to Argentina prior to the Falklands War.
* There was a new layout for Grantham's Mid-Lent Fair in the town centre so that emergency service vehicles could pass through easily should they be needed.
* SKDC suggested it needed another 3,000sq ft of office space as the authority sought to centralise its operations at the Guildhall site.
* The county council's schools sub-committee indicated that Sedgebrook Primary School was likely to be axed within the near future with the children transferred to Allington School.
50 Years AgoA SILVER snuffbox was among many gifts to Tom Winfield, of New Street, who retired after 52 years with the tannery at Earlesfield where he started in 1902 earning five shillings (25p) for a 60-hour week.
* A few minutes before her group of college students were due to take part in Kesteven County Drama Festival at Harrowby Church Hall, Edinburgh Road, teacher Mai Oubridge fell 8ft through a stage trapdoor.
* "Queen of the Keyboard" Winifred Atwell topped the bill in two sell-out shows on the same night at the Granada theatre, St Peter's Hill, together attended by almost 3,000 people.
* Grantham Town reached the final of the Lincs Senior Cup beating Spalding United 3-1 at London Road.
* A Leicester-based company proposed to turn the Exchange Hall, on High Street, Grantham, into a roller-skating rink and dance hall.
100 Years AgoSMITH and Warren, the "Working Men's Clothiers", of Castlegate, Grantham, were selling men's tweed suits for just 16s 11d (64.5p).
* The Pancake Bell was rung at St Wulfram's on Shrove Tuesday "in accordance with an old custom".
* A silver tea service, regulation sword and a purse containing £16, were presented to Sgt-Major Godber in a ceremony at the Drill Hall, Wharf Road, on his retirement from the 2nd Volunteer Battalion Lincolnshire Regiment after 20 years' service.
* Harry Johnson was elected parish constable of Denton for the ensuing year at a meeting of the parish council.
* There was a good attendance, including some ladies, at the inaugural meeting of Stathern Miniature Rifle Club, with a temporary range being set up in Mr W. Shipman's barn.
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