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Wimpole Park School (c1951)
Junior Pupils - Summer Term
A local history and genealogy page for the Parish of Wimpole.
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Wimpole Park County School was a temporary community school set up after the Second World War on the Wimpole Hall Estate, Cambridgeshire. The school ran from 1948 to 1955, until Bassingbourn Village College opened.

Junior Pupils, Wimpole Park School 1951
Juniors - Wimpole Park School c1951
Photograph courtesy of Rose-Mary McGee.
Image © Copyright Rose-Mary McGee and the Wimpole Past website.

Print loaned by Rose-Mary McGee (née Bullen)
Names as remembered by Rose-Mary McGee and David Eichberg.
The image was taken in front of the school classroom hut in Wimpole Park.
Back Row (left to right): Harry Booth, boy (maybe John Senior?), Roger Bullen, Colin Cristy, Irene Presland, Christine Arnold, Christine Whittington, Primrose Charter, (girl), Richard Presland, (boy).
Middle Row (standing, left to right): (boy), (girl), Barbara Chapman, (girl), (girl), (girl), Majorie Chapman, girl (maybe Starling?), Margaret Green (or possibly Josie Arnold?), Rose-Mary Bullen, Maureen Dance, (girl).
Front Row (sitting on mats, left to right): (girl), (boy), (boy), (boy), Mary Carter, (girl), (girl), Bob Arnold, (boy), (boy), (boy).
Please contact the website if you have any other Wimpole Park photographs, information, memories or can help with missing pupil names.

Wimpole Park School - Home Page
Pupil Group Photographs - Index Page
Wimpole Park School - Short History
Memories of Wimpole Park School
   by Alan Jordan (Acting Head 1950-1951, Head 1952-1954)
Wimpole Park School Rounders Team (1953)
My 'Old Wimpole' Childhood - Wimpole Park School Remembered
   by Irene Bruce (née Lowe)
Arrington Memories (George Reynolds via Guestbook)

Wimpole Park School c1952
Wimpole Park School c1950s
Image contributed by John Pearce
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