1947 - 1969
The Era
St. Christopher's High School, Poole, opened its doors in January 1947,
a time when few families had a car and even less a telephone or
television. By the time the School closed 22 years later, the black Ford
Prefect had given way to the two-tone Cortina GT, an operator no longer connected your call and Cliff Richard was not quite so cool, even if he was still appearing on Top
Of The Pops, in colour, on your new Japanese TV!
The School saw post-war austerity turn into the swinging 60s and provided education during one of the most exciting and
optimistic periods in recent history. If you were one of the hundreds of
children who shared the St Christopher's experience during their formative
years, I hope you will enjoy this web site. Stay in touch!
The School
St. Christopher's High School, Poole, provided nursery (Kindergarten)
and
junior education for both boys and girls.
For boys this lasted up to the age of 11 years when the 11plus examination
determined their future.
In the School's hey-day, girls were able to remain up to the age of
16.
The School closed in 1969, the staff either retired or moved to other schools and the building was demolished to make way for a new block of flats. The front wall of glazed brick, remains!
The proprietor and Head Mistress throughout the 22 years of its existence, was Miss P.M. Lodge.
The web site
This web site aims to provided a source of information about the School, an archive for photographs and other material and to support a social network for ex-pupils. It is envisaged that it will be used in conjunction with the Friends Reunited commercial web site, which can provide a secure means of contacting pupils who have signed up. We hope you will too!
The St. Christopher's web site is presently maintained and edited by Ian Smith, a pupil from 1954 -
1962. He would be happy to include more photographs and details of the school and its pupils
and would, in any case, be very pleased to hear from you, if only to correct any
mistakes!
E-mail: ianrsmith@aol.com.
In order to help support this web site, photographic or digitally enhanced prints of most of the pictures featured on the web site are available at a modest charge. Some photographs are not available for reasons of copyright.. For details click here (order prints).
This web site is under construction and the content below is a suggestion of how it might look. Not all of the links work at present!
The legal
bit!
All photographs and information contained within this web site are provided in
good faith by and for, ex-pupils and staff of the school. All children depicted
are now adults. If anyone would like their name or photograph added or removed,
or other errors corrected, this can be done quickly and easily by contacting the editor. The web site is
provided courtesy of Photolink International who are registered under the Data
Protection Act; however, names with addresses are not presently stored.
Enjoy!
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Something of the history of the School, a note from the editor and some photographs around the place that don't quite fit into other categories! | ||
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Photographs of the Head Mistress and some of her staff. |
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Sections of those wonderful panoramic photographs. | ||
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Small group and class photographs in the 1960s | ||
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A selection of photographs taken at Sports Days |
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INDIVIDUAL
PHOTOGRAPHS (1) |
See if you can find yourself
amongst this collection!. Colour photographs taken on the front lawn,
probably in 1965. | |
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INDIVIDUAL
PHOTOGRAPHS (2) |
Black and white photographs taken on the front lawn, probably a little later in 1967. Also running to several pages. | |
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Black and White Photographs taken at a Christmas Fayre in 1967 (in the style of the Department Store set-up, with Father Christmas)! Two pages. | ||
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Information about two videos, made from original 16mm and 8mm films of the School in 1957 and 1967 | ||
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Dr I.R.Smith
Audley House, 19 The Croft, Bishopstone, Salisbury,
England. SP5 4DF.
Telephone +44 (0)1722 780425