(HRD)
Drummers, Top Row
? ?---— ?? -----Donald Gallager
Middle Row
? ? — ? ? ----Maude Toy —Janet Betts —Renee Wilson – May Green — Lorna Crawford?
---- Mary Elliot — Molly Kinsett
Bottom Row
Geoff Wilson —? ? ---- Harry Duckett — ? ? — ? ? — ? ? — Arthur (Sony) Kinsett
Most of the girls can be recognised from the band picture above, the only other is the lad with the bear knee sitting at the bottom of the May-pole.(that is me I am told, as my father took these photographs)
The one vivid memory I have of that day, was the procession from the school to this field at the back of the Parish Hall.
Local farmers loaned their horse and drays for this and it went along Walsall Road and down Rosemary Hill to get to the Blake Street entrance to the field. As we came down Rosemary Hill our horse was slipping while trying to hold the cart back. The driver screwed the brake wheel on, which put wooden blocks on the iron rim wheels. By the time the dray got to the cross roads by Parmley's garage and Rowland's and Orme's shops we were leaving two smoke trails that the Red Arrows would have been proud of. (RSD)
Back row
1 Ron Duckett Little Aston Lane. 2 Tony Key, Forge Lane. 3 District Commissionaire Lucas Think he came from Wylde Green
4 Bill (Skip) Hardwick, Endwood Drive first house on the right from Roman Road- had glider trailer in drive, Bill lost his life in a submarine in 1940.
5 Arthur (Sunny) Kinsett, Forge Lane. 6 Ted Toy, Forge Lane. 7 Dennis Entwistle, Little Aston Lane.
Front row. 1 Ernie Taylor, West Bromwich evacuee. 2 Frank Fletcher, Forge Lane mother was school caretaker.
3 David Hardwick, younger brother of Skip had a leg iron. 4 Edwin Price, off Walsall Road.5 Gordon Tangy, West Bromwich evacuee.
6 Ken Frampton, Little Aston Lane. 7 Trevor Franklin top of Rosemary Hill
Our HQ, was in an up-stairs room above the Mill at Home Farm which Mr Francis allowed us to use. We had a flagpole in front of the building on top of the hill overlooking the crossroads at the end of Forge Lane. (RSD)
From the back row
Trevor Warrington - Michael Fairey - Alec Isacson
Rev. Henry Follis - Jack Newbold - Clive Smith - Ann Barr - David Barr - Bryan Carson
Mary Wallace - Geoffrey Pugh
Photo and details, from David Barr
Bob Cadd and Harry Duckett
RSD
