Sherfield Village History Group

Sherfield School Pupils - The War Years

Many thanks to Donald and Ursula Rickwood for the photographs of Sherfield Village School pupils taken in 1939 and 1945 and providing the names of the pupils in these photographs, and to Chris and Pat Mison for further names in the 1945-46 photograph.

Sincere thanks also to Mollie Thompson (nee North) for the photograph of Miss Green's Class, taken in 1946, and to Ray Crossman for forwarding this to the Group. On the reverse of the photograph were the names of all the pupils. An authoritative record which has saved much detective work

Donald and Ursula have also given names of some the pupils who were not at school on the day when the 1939 photo was taken.
Teddy Finch (Wildmoor Farm Cottage);
Betty Parsons (Summerstead Farm);
Edna and Brenda Gundry (Wildmoor, opposite the post box in those days);
Dennis Ilsley (Meadow Cottage, Dixon Road, Church End);
Edith and Amy Nash (Lance Levy Cottages);
Jimmy Cooper (Fir Tree Cottages, Church End);
John Jacobs (Bullsdown Farm, Bramley Green), (his brother Ian Jacobs is also missing from the 1945 photo).

If you are interested in who else lived in the Parish then a good source is the 1939 National Register, taken on 29th September 1939. The pages of the Register for Sherfield are here.

Sherfield School Pupils 1939
pdf version Sherfield School_names_1939 (rev2).pdf

Sherfield School Pupils 1945
The date of this photo date has yet to be confirmed, but this is thought to be the first school photo taken after the war had finished, just as the 1939 photo was the last to be taken before the war commenced.

pdf version Sherfield School names 1945.pdf