1962 photograph: Entire assembly of St.Mary's School. Wrestwood Road, Bexhill-on-Sea, East Sussex. England.

I consider this photograph a good piece of history. The principal head mistress of the school at the time was Miss B.T.Oughton-Giles, known to everyone as Gi. During my stay at St. Mary's Gi died and the head mistress position was passed on to a Miss Shaw.

I am in the very front row, third from the left. One of my best memories of the school was the acres of wood land, kitchen gardens and fields. The school grounds were vast and contained many features of an Edwardian age. It was only after Miss Oughton-Giles died that a large portion of the school property was sold. Consequently the sold landscape was demolished for urban development.

1. St-Marys School web site St Mary's, A non-maintained special school was founded in 1922 and the spirit of the founders is still alive today.

There is now a better quality digital reproduction of the photograph. I have had the photograph professionally rescanned to a high resolution, correcting minor flaws in the image. The high Res scans of the photo I had made are far more clear, 17 to 1 blow up on max. A really clear picture of every body in the photo.
If any one would like digital copies of this photophotogh let me know by e-mail. For the cost of postage and a spare disk I can send copies. christopher.english@ntlworld.com