Down Memory Lane

Back in the days o f the 11 plus, many o f the 11-18 year olds f rom the area were shipped o ff to Biggleswade daily to be educated As a consequence they don’t appear, at those ages, in any o f the old pho tos we have printed o f late Thanks to Phillip Bridge, we are able to bring you this wonder ful collage taken f rom the o ff icial school pho to o f Stratton pupils in 1963 Apologies to anyone missed Do you recognise yourself/ can you name the students pictured?

Fur ther to last month’s pho to we received a response f rom Carl Houghton “ I think I recognise some o f the girls as Ber yl Colder wood, Sandra Doudney, Audrey Savor y, Doro thy Wood, June Aldridge, Greta Shiel, Denise Houghton, Pat Lemon, Jo yce Fievez, Shirley Gentle, Kathleen Bland, Sylvia Randall, Maxine Latimer, Betty Gentle, Jean Crawley, Maureen Crawley Mavis Cocking, Eileen King, Betty Walls and Maralyn Albon Seniors Barbara Redd and Betty Savor y are at the rear ” We are desperately in need o f some new ‘old pho tographs’ and are ver y happy to collect them to borro w and then return. Give us a call on 01462 731986 or drop us an email to arlesey.news@yahoo.com if you can help!!