Can you name the last few pupils from St Mary’s in Worthing?

Catherine Totham phoned in to help put some more names to faces in the St Mary’s Infants 1 class photo from 1952.
St Mary's Primary School Infants 1 class, 1952St Mary's Primary School Infants 1 class, 1952
St Mary's Primary School Infants 1 class, 1952

Catherine, who lives in Brighton, passed on the information given to her by her brother, Patrick Taylor, who is pictured in the centre of the front row, holding the board.

Patrick, who now lives in France, named Stuart Hamilton as the boy on the far left on the front row, and John Baker, third from right on the back row.

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He also identified the boy third from left on the back row as either Michael or John Tierney.

Patrick also believes the boy on the far right of the back row is called Ian, but was unsure of his surname.

The names which are still unknown are marked by a question below:

Back row (from left to right) – Freddie Wickens; John McCall; Michael/John Tierney; Roger Simmonds; Michael Provetti; Daniel Keegan; Phillip Hancock; Bernard Reynolds; John Baker; ?; Ian (?).

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Middle row – Anna Macdonald; Kathleen Kane; Denise Burke; Frances Gillespie; Pamela Dale; Christine Byrne; Anne Dunne; Mary Hill; Luana Townsend; Barbara Trott.

Front row – Stuart Hamilton; Stuart Rowe; Brian Hodgkinson; Patrick Taylor; ?; Mike Lelliott; Richard Tuck; Phillip McLachlan.

Get in touch if you can name any of remaining children in the photo, or if you have any old school photos you would like to share.

• Send your memories and photos to James Connaughton, via email to [email protected], send them by post or pop into Cannon House, Chatsworth Road, Worthing, BN11 1NA. Telephone 01903 282351.

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