00:44Have you managed to work out if there's anyone in the village that's linked to those first pupils?
00:48We've had a few in this afternoon. We've had maybe four or five local residents who, their whole family, grandparents, great-grandparents, came to the school.
00:58Fantastic. So there's a number of things taking place. I understand there's a tree planting going to be happening?
01:03Yeah, we're going to plant a tree, we're going to plant a time capsule, we've got a display of old photographs, and we've got lots of cake and coffee and tea.
01:10Cool. Right, so we've had a little chat with you, young lady.
01:13Now, lads, what do you like about this school here that's 175 years old? What do you enjoy?
01:19I enjoy doing computing.
01:23Computing? Do you think they were computing 175 years ago? I don't know. I don't think there was any computers then.
01:30And what about you, buddy? What do you enjoy at school here?
01:33I really enjoy literacy.
01:35Yeah? Cool. So what might you like to do when you're old? Do you think you might like to be an author or something?
01:40I would like that, yeah.
01:42Yeah, perhaps write a history book of the school. That'd be cool.
01:45Right, well, thank you for letting us enjoy your party. We'll go and let you guys get back in the festivities and put that in the ground.
01:51Right, well done, guys.
01:53So this is a live service award, we think given out in 1913, to Mr. Jobson. It was for your aunt who was a teacher here.
02:03My great, great, great aunt.
02:05And what was your great, great, great aunt's name again?
02:08Elizabeth Sims.
02:09Elizabeth Sims.
02:11So you were a pupil here as well?
02:13Yes.
02:14And, madam, were you a pupil?
02:15Yes.
02:15Yeah.
02:16And I live in the same house now, as I was born in.
02:20And my house was built in 1840.
02:25Was it?
02:26Really?
02:271840.
02:27Yeah.
02:28So, Mr. Jobson, how old are you now, sir? I shouldn't ask, but I have.
02:33I'm 81.
02:34And madam, what about you?
02:36I'll be 81 at Christmas.
02:38So you were at school?
02:39Yeah, we were at school together.
02:40Yeah, you're just friends, you're not relatives, are you?
02:42No, no, we live by one of them.
02:44So, Mr. Jobson, just tell us, your family lineage, you've been to this school.
02:50So, go on, who's been to this school from your family?
02:53From my family.
02:54My son came here.
02:55Yeah.
02:57I've come here.
02:58My sister was over there somewhere.
03:00Yeah.
03:00She came here.
03:02My mother came here.
03:04My grandfather came here.
03:07My grandfather and my great-grandmother.
03:11Yeah, how about that?
03:13So, what does it mean for you to be here today, to the pair of you, to be, you know, back here
03:19and see that it's still a school, it's still here and thriving?
03:23It's lovely to think it's lasted, I know, isn't it?
03:25Yeah.
03:26In this day and age.
03:27Yeah.
03:28And what's, so what was it like as a school child back then?
03:33Well, I started in, on September the 6th, 1949.
03:39Yeah.
03:39And that was the first day of the, you know, the new Labour government, as it was.
03:47Oh, yeah.
03:48They introduced school dinners.
03:49Oh.
03:50My first day at school was the first school dinner.
03:54Can you remember what you had for dinner?
03:57No, I can't.
03:58Well, don't forget any of us are going to blame you for that.
04:00I was stretching it a bit.
04:02And was it, was it very strict in those days?
04:05I'm imagining so.
04:06Yeah, very strict.
04:07Yeah.
04:07And there'd have still been the cane and stuff, wasn't there?
04:10Oh, yeah.
04:11Yeah.
04:11The cane was still operating.
04:12Yeah.
04:13There used to be a fireplace over here.
04:15Yeah.
04:15Yeah.
04:17And that was the, all the heating there was for this.
04:20Yeah.
04:20The hill room.
04:21Oh, well.
04:22Yeah, so they'd have the log fire going.
04:24It used to be the bean room, wasn't it?
04:26It wasn't much log.
04:28It was like a mean bit of coal.
04:30Yeah.
04:31Yeah.
04:31Yeah.
04:32We used to have to sit in a kind of a fanfare around it.
04:35To make sure you all got the heat.
04:36In the very cold weather.
04:38Yeah.
04:39And she used to test us on times tables and spelling and all the rest of it.
04:47Yeah.
04:48And if you've got something wrong, you have to go to the back.
04:51Further away from the heat.
04:53Come and get a wall.
04:54Yeah, yeah.
04:55Well, right.
04:57So, are there, to your knowledge, are there many pupils from back in your day who are still
05:03in the village?
05:04Still live in the village?
05:05Well, yes, there's a few of them.
05:07My sister over there.
05:11There's still a few, then.
05:12Still a few.
05:13Still a few, then.
05:14Still a few.
05:14Yeah.
05:15Yeah.
05:16Well, it's lovely for you sharing those memories with us.
05:20So, thank you, sir.
05:21And thank you for this amazing archive of old pictures, which I understand you're largely
05:25responsible for.
05:26So nice to see you.
05:28Well done.
05:29It's amazing what you find in the loft, isn't it?
05:32Yeah, it's very true.
05:33Very true.
05:34So, were you pupils?
05:56Former pupils?
05:57Yeah.
05:57So, have you clocked yourself on any of these old photos?
06:01Yeah.
06:02Go on, then.
06:02Point.
06:03Where are you?
06:03Are you on there, madam?
06:04I'm at the age of two.
06:05Where are you?
06:06Hello.
06:07Are we on that one?
06:09No, on the inside.
06:11Yes.
06:12Is this?
06:12There.
06:13There.
06:13What were your memories back in the day, then?
06:19Go on, snuggle in.
06:20Get cozy.
06:21Get cozy.
06:22Where are you, Reggie?
06:23Reggie's gone.
06:24Reggie's gone.
06:24There were two rooms when we were here.
06:26Was there?
06:27Yeah.
06:27No, it was a big room and a little room.
06:29Yeah, yeah.
06:30And, Sid, where do you live now, then?
06:33Locally.
06:34Yeah.
06:34Yeah.
06:35And happy memories, then?
06:36And good times?
06:37Yes, yes, yeah.
06:38Well, we all grew up together, so we're all still here.
06:41Yeah, yeah.
06:42It's only two teachers, yeah.
06:43Yeah, two teachers.
06:44Yeah.
06:45So how many pupils would there have been, roughly?
06:47About 40.
06:48Yeah?
06:49Wow.
06:49That was in the early 50s.
06:51Mid-50s, yeah.
06:52Yeah.
06:53So it's nice to come back today and kind of mark the special anniversary.
06:57That's right, yeah.
06:58Does it bring back any memories?
07:01You know, are you coming back in thinking, oh, I think there's a library book I've got a letter
07:04I never brought back?
07:06I remember the toilets.
07:07Yeah?
07:08They were absolutely foul.
07:09Were they?
07:10Outside.
07:11Outside.
07:11Yeah.
07:12And they were wooden.
07:13So it was, I assume it was literally like a little wooden shack at the end of the...
07:17No, no, the building was all right.
07:18Yeah.
07:19But the toilets were all.
07:20Oh, right, yeah, yeah.
07:21I remember, I remember Miss Richards sending one of us across every day for a cup of tea.
07:26Ah.
07:27Yeah, they used to be like, the teachers used to be like a little tea trolley, didn't they?
07:31That'd come round back in the day.
07:32My wife often tells me...
07:34No, she let the headmistress live next door.
07:36Oh, okay.
07:37And she sent us across every day for a cup of tea.
07:40Yeah.
07:40From her sister.
07:42Her auntie.
07:42No way.
07:43No, no.
07:43No, no, no.
07:44Her auntie, Miss Pete was living there.
07:46Oh, right, yeah.
07:47So which headteacher was that then, back then?
07:49Miss Richards.
07:50Miss Richards.
07:51Cool.
07:51Was she strict?
07:52Was she strict?
07:53Yes.
07:54Yeah.
07:54She was very tall.
07:55She was a very good teacher.
07:56She was very tall and we all ran after her with about...
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