Ely High School 1. Founding Centenary Celebrations 2. Ely High School 1. Celebrations in 2. Article from Ely Standard? It was bought. by Cambridgeshire County Council in 1. Isle of Ely Education Committee to use. High School in the city. An arrangement was made with Miss I Pigott, principal of a. Ely, by which her pupils were to form the. Head of the. Preparatory School, to be run in connection with the new High. School. Boys as well as girls were admitted to the. Preparatory Department and remained a feature of the school. At the age of 1. 1 girls went on to the. Singer, songwriter, pianist. Few pop stars have been so successful for so long a time as has British rocker Elton John. Since bursting onto the music scene with his album Elton John in 1970, the flamboyant singer. Keenan Wynn, Actor: Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. Character actor Keenan Wynn was born into a famous show-business family. One in particular is his father, Ed Wynn. Keenan was the one to. High School and the boys to the Choir School. In early 1. 90. 5 candidates were interviewed for the post of. Headmistress of Ely High School and an appointment was made. Miss EE Fletcher was recalled and appointed and took. May 1. 90. 5. Ely High School was formally opened on 1. May with 4. 2. pupils aged between six and fourteen - they were: Annie Allen. Gladys Cross. May Evans. Phyllis Guyatt. Edith Jefferson. Mary Kempton. Florence Pledger. Laura Sennitt. Grace Woodward. Audrey Barnett. Audrey Cross. Alan J. Gardiner. Arthur Harris. Jane Jefferson. Dorothy Kempton. Winifred Robinson. Ethel Thompson. Gladys Woolnough. Gertrude Coy. Elsie Davison. The Power and the Glory by Gentle Giant: USD $19.07: 4h 26m : GENTLE GIANT POWER AND THE GLORY ARCHIVE NEAR MINT UK 1ST ISSUE PROG LP, INSERT: USD $340.00: 1 day : GENTLE GIANT Power and Glory Capitol Canada LP NM 1974: USD.
Hilda Goodbody. Ethel Hills. Gladys Jennings. Elsie Northrop Bertha Sennitt Arthur Tyndall Sissy Woolnough. Margaret Coy. Rachael Dunwoody. Thomas Guyatt. Madge Hills. Patty Jennings. Iva Pledger. Olive Sennitt. Kate Vye. Dorothy Wright. In June 1. Olive French, Hettie Shepperson, Beatrice Goodin, Eva Leonard. With the very beginning of the school began its growing. The premises were. Within. a very short time the pillared main entrance, minus the. What must have been a fine and beautiful garden. Ely, became gradually cluttered with. In the early. days there were fine lawns, an old thatched summer house and. The original building was extended at the back to provide. A. gymnasium was created at the front of the building by. Art Room; cookery was taught in. Laboratory was enlarged. During the First World War the numbers of pupils rose to. Belgian refugee children. Cass's Garage despite the. Miss Fletcher had been able to move into the Lodge. In 1. 92. 0 an ex- Army hut was purchased and positioned in the. Prize Livings with banks of ferns. As numbers increased more accommodation was needed and in. Assembly Hall, followed by two more classrooms. The Second World War brought a halt to building work and. Archer House for. Bedford House with the staff and pupils of. Central Foundation School from the East End who had been. Ely. At this time also the foster daughter of Dr and Mrs. Davies, a young Jewish girl who had escaped from Nazi Germany. In 1. 94. 4 the school bade farewell to the CFS and although. Archer House for teaching, life. The 1. 94. 4 Education Act. Preparatory Department was to close in 1. Soon a block of prefabricated classrooms and a cloakroom. Chapel Street end of the site but the. Bedford House had been formerly owned by the Bedford. Level Corporation who were responsible for the drainage of. In 1. 94. 7 disastrous flooding. Army to cope with the situation, and it. Duke and Duchess of Gloucester who came to inspect the. The next few years were relatively calm but underneath. Long. years of negotiation and planning were about to bear fruit. Ely High School was to have new. Building work commenced and by. Operation Shopping Bag was instigated and towards. As well as new buildings the school had a new uniform with. There was also a school motto Fortiter Ad. Fastigium inspired by the ascent of Everest by Hilary. Tensing in 1. 95. On 2. 1 October 1. HRH The Duchess of Gloucester, paying her second. The. Duchess also planted a tree by the front wall to commemorate. The Downham Road site also had a number of. Mrs M Sinclair Martin, a long serving. Governor, who, in 1. Hazel. (pronounced lzal) to grow some trees from conkers that she. In due course leaves appeared and in time. These new buildings had been long awaited and so many. Miss Fletcher had written . Long years of coping with. Their dreams for a new Ely High School had been realised. The life of the school continued with staff and pupils. City of Ely College. Comprehensive education had arrived. Ely High School ceased to exist after 6. Throughout the years pupils had travelled to school by. In the 1. 92. 0's. Evelyn Cross, Muriel Taylor and Freda Stannard used a. Bell Hotel during the school day; Eva Prime often used to. Others came more conventionally. Inclement weather. Bedford House had no playing fields but was able to use. Paradise Ground for hockey and the tree shaded lawns of. Theological College for Sports Day. Gymnastic displays. The Downham Road site extended over several acres with. Tennis courts in. Swimming was to involve treks to the outdoor pool in Angel. Drove either on foot form Bedford House or by bus from. Downham Road to brave the icy waters. Not for the faint. There were problems connected with the teaching of the. Sciences even in the 5. Reciprocal arrangements. Kings School boys came to share our lessons and. Patsy Hunter had to receive instruction in. Kings School labs. The four Houses of the school were instituted in the. Ely Cathedral many centuries before: ETHELDREDA - daughter of King Anna of the East. Angles, widow of Tonbert who had given his bride the. Island of Ely as part of her dowry. As a matter of. political expediency she married Egfrith, King of. Northumbria but seeking to remain a virgin and live a. Ely where. she founded an abbey in 6. AD which became Ely. Cathedral. KNUT - the Danish born King of England was a frequent. Ely at the beginning of the 1. ALAN - the mediaeval sacrist of the abbey who. Octagon Tower after the Norman central tower. He also designed the Lady Chapel. HEREWARD - known as Hereward the Wake he was a rebel. Norman advance into the. Isle of Ely. He was betrayed by Thurstan, the last. Abbott of Ely and his rebellion was quashed in 1. Miss EE Fletcher, the first Headmistress, 1. Miss EE Fletcher, the first Headmistress, was at Bedford. House from 1. 90. She was imbued with the highest ideals in her educational. By her. own deep religious convictions and self consecration she. Miss Fletcher was always at pains to maintain good. She had an extremely heavy workload with teaching and was. She worked tirelessly to build up the. She was a pioneer in education but was faced by the. As a person Miss Fletcher was gifted in many ways; she had. Everything about her portrayed a cultured woman. She was. generous, impulsive and temperamental and being quick- minded. She was always natural and easy; formality. Happiness and goodwill emanated from her and this. Thoughtful of. others, she was indifferent to her own comfort and was. Miss Verini was the hardest worker in the school and yet. Her strength lay in her quietness and. When Miss Verini left Ely she went on to. Principal of the Cambridge. Training College in 1. Dr Bertha Tilly, Headmistress 1. Bertha Tilly was appointed Headmistress in 1. Ely had been known to. Cathedral and the fact. To a Minster. Garden by Dean Stubbs who of course had played such an. Ely High School, and who. Chairman of Governors. Miss Tilly was delighted with her home in the Lodge which. There was also a garden planted with. Three. years into her Headship came the Second World War with the. Miss Tilly. brought to bear on all of them her power of concentration. These qualities were very much in evidence when the. Central Foundation School were. Bedford House site with the pupils. In the years following the Allied Victory the evacuees. London and life at school returned a semblance. Miss Tilly was able to. Italy to do some study and. Miss. Defew. Miss Tilly, a gifted scholar had a personal motto. She encouraged every girl to do their best in. She wanted only the. Miss Tilly was gentle, quiet and kind but had an iron. She. loved Ely, a place so full of history and tradition, so. I am proud to have watched over the. I knew in my early years. Ely High School... She. encouraged foreign exchanges and encouraged many to make. France and Germany. She loved. music and drama, those interests being reflected in many. Miss Moody. was characterised by her sense of humour, her sympathy and. Not least of her gifts to the school were those of time. Miss Moody became Assistant to the Principal of the City. Ely College in 1. Ely High School was no more but Bertha Tilly was to write. She ran it with the. Miss Pater was her successor and with. Christian living. She is reported to have had a penchant for. Miss Parkes was a kind and gentle lady. Deputy to Miss Fletcher and retired with her to. Bournemouth in 1. Miss Cooper, a devoted teacher of Music. Headmistresses. Miss Bufton taught History and remained. Many of us will know her better as. Mrs Staniforth, who in her zeal to impart historical facts. Miss Baird served the school for some 3. French. She used to escort those girls. Her lessons were a delight - in 1. Paris was invaded girls responded to her command and sang The. Marseillaise with great fervour. She taught French but. Quelle dame! Miss Haynes taught Science at both. She. dispensed scientific knowledge interspersed with advice about. She was the. epitome of fashion. Mrs Jones, also a teacher of Science, was. She was to succeed Miss Defew as. Deputy Headmistress. Miss Defew, last but by no means least. She had been a pupil in the early days and had gone on. English at Royal Holloway College and. Ely. High School for thirty years until her retirement in 1. She taught her pupils. English. She could. She was remembered. Those. girls who were summoned to explain their low C or D grades. Miss Defew was the daughter of a Churchwarden of St. She remained deeply. Generations of girls were taught extremely well in both. They inspired, influenced and enthused us. International Hockey matches; on educational. Lake District. Derbyshire, Yorkshire and Wales. Many future careers were. The high calibre of teaching contributed to the success of. State Scholarships - Cynthia Levett. Patricia Taylor and Jennifer Drake - and Open Exhibition. Awards made by Universities to scholars like Margaret Burtt.
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