Memories
At Mersey Park we are keen to remember our roots. We use various resources in school topics to research the history of the school building and the people who have previously been involved at the school. This might be records from the head teacher’s log book, old drawings of the school, memories from past staff, details of pupils who have attended the school or a wider range of artefacts.
Did you know:
- both Patricia Routledge and Jason McAteer attended Mersey Park Primary School?
- the first headmaster was known as “Pa Hughes” by the pupils?
These pages are going to allow us to share this information with you, the wider community. Click on the decade you would like to access to see what information and artefacts are available for Mersey Park Primary School from that time.
Some decades are still under construction – sorry for any inconvenience caused – please keep checking them for updated information.
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We believe this photo shows Glenys Penry Phillips fourth from the right on the first row and possibly her future husband Thomas Herbert Fisher far right on the second row.
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Thank you to Clive Redhead who has emailed to let us know his mother, maiden name Norma Elizabeth Woolley, is in this photograph on the back row, fifth from the left. It’s great to hear you have still been driving past the school and have such fond memories.
Click the link below to see the Logbook from May 1945 when school, like the rest of the country, celebrated VE day!
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Back row: Teachers- Mr. Clancey, Mr. Hare (headteacher), the one-armed Mr. Hooper & finally Mr. Goodier.
Middle row: 6th- Ian Tudor
The front row: 1st- Dougie Jones 2nd- John Cropper, 3rd- John Webster 4th- Ian Baker 5th- Ian Holcroft last- Michael Thomason
If you know anymore names please email us and let us know!
A video of Mersey Park Primary School from 1953:
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I will be forever grateful to Mersey Park Primary School for such a wonderful start to my education.”
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Thank you also to Rhoda Malloy (nee Critchley) who wrote to say “despite living in the north of Scotland now, I heard about your search for past pupils’ memories – seeing the photograph taken in 1969, took me right back to the very happy times I had with my friends in school. I am unable to recall all the names of the children in the photo, but many have come back to me:
The 4 girls in the middle of the front row are Gail Gaskell (sleeveless, white blouse), Pauline Dodds (striped top), Sharon Hanley (red dress) and Deborah Benson (sleeveless, flowery dress).
I am on the second row, third from the left, wearing a maroon cardigan with my prefect badge on. Next to me is Janet Roach (red cardigan), Daphne Howard (yellow blouse), Kim Wade (flowery dress), Carol Bailey in black and white and the boy on the end wearing glasses is Brian Jones.
On the third row I remember Stephen Smeltzer, second from the left, next to Tarina Holland. Lesley Little is the tall girl in the yellow dress with white cardigan.
Far left on the back row is red-headed Larry Jones, the naughtiest boy in the class! Suzanne Beacall was third from the left, then Linda Chisholm. I think the tall boy may have been Anthony ……… Pauline Eccleston was next (cream cardigan with brown buttons, then Susan Jones. Lynne Evans, is second from the right.
When I first started school, my teacher was Mrs Audley for at least a couple of years and I also remember being in Mrs Bassnett’s class at some point.”
Thank you to Julie Glover who got in touch to say, “I was present on the picture of the trip to Paris. We were accompanied by Mr Hooper and Miss Radford. Mr Hooper had lost an eye and an arm in World War 2. He was passionate about France and was our French teacher. I was a prefect and voted the first head girl of Mersey Park School. I enjoyed all of my time there.”
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Take a look at this video to see what Mersey Park Primary School would have been like in 1979-1981.
In 1983 these photographs were addressed to the headteacher. Unfortunately we have no more information on this event but clearly Mersey Park was visited by the mayor on more than one occasion! If you know anything about this event please let the school office know!
Thank you to Mark Williams who got in touch to say,
“The best teacher in the school was Mr Parkinson, he was a wonderful man who would cycle up our road in the morning to get to school. He would spend hours drawing birds on the blackboard with coloured chalk and teach French. He was a very keen cinematographer and must have recorded many years of archive footage of the school and pupils. In the summer he would take a class of children and create mini adventure films to be shown to the school at the end of term.”Mark Williams also mentions, “Mr Casement also deserves a mention as he was another teacher who went the extra mile for his pupils, I used to look forward to the next chapter of Three Men in a Boat, read on a Friday afternoon.”
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Thank you to Catherine Renfrey who is on the right of this photograph. She was a member of the teaching staff at Mersey Park for 9 or 10 years. The other member of staff on this photograph is apparently Jean Bailey who helped with reading.
In February 1993 the school was at risk of having to close its crèche facilities so the staff, parents and toddlers joined together to protest against the closure. These two articles are from ‘The News’ and ‘Liverpool Echo’ covering the protests!
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