Wigan Album
Notre Dame School, Standishgate
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Photo: Karl Winnard
Item #: 31210
Back row: Geoffrey Moss, Alan Ward, D.Ellis, Nigel Winnard, Dick Ressick?, Michael Topham
Middle: Betty Robinson, Marie Hyde, Gillian Aspinall, Margaret Woodhead?, x,
Front: Billy Morris, Richard Prestwich, Gillian Walmsley, x, Cyril Cook?, Eric Smith
Always thought the Convent was a girls' only school. I know it was after pupils were 11 years old.
Are you the same family as Winnards the bakers in Gidlow Lane?
Alan Ward looks like the one who managed the Wigan Bier Keller for Eddie Farrimond?
Geoffrey Moss,Nigel Winnard & Michael Topham were in the Sixth Form at WGS when I joined in 1943.Topham has died fairly recently.He was something of an eccentrics Classical scholar.He did the pole vault & the High Jump in the School sports wearing combinations.The Ressick? in the photo is probably Rennick.His people owned the Wigan Examiner and were Roman Catholicsq
Michael Topham won the Classic Tripos when he was at university and you are right about him being eccentric. His poems in the WGS magazine are really weird. He was in the 5th form when I started school in 1942
Correction. The Hollies not The Elms.
This school photo is not from the Hollies. At the time it was taken the Hollies (Notre dame) was still a private house. When it became a school the attendees wore uniforms. I posted a copy of your photo onto the Notre Dame fb group, which is where this info came from as some of the members remember the family who lived in the Hollies.
Thanks for all your comments. Hi Michael, no, not related.
Hi Carol, thanks for your comments. Have I got the wrong school? My father simply referred to it as the convent which was close to where he lived in Trafalgar Rd.