Slide 1 INGATESTONE JUNIOR SCHOOL 1963 -2013 A HISTORY AND THE FIRST 50 YEARS OF THE NEW SCHOOL
AND THE CONNECTIONS WITH IBOC (1919 -2013)
IBOC/Ingatestone Juniors presentation for school open evening on Monday 15 July 2013 - Robert W Fletcher. (All documents and photographs the author’s unless stated.
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Old school signs now on the wall of Ingatestone Juniors (Constructed: 1963-64).
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Second Lieutenant HJC “Skip” Seymour RAF in his plane in France – probably November 1918 after the Armistice. (Courtesy Ingatestone & Fryerning Parish Council).
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IBOC club HQ at The Parish Rooms, Stock Lane, Ingatestone – early 1920s to 1959. (Courtesy Mrs M Bassom).
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IBOC football team – “Ingatestone Rovers”. (Mrs M Bassom).
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Ingatestone Boys’ School football team, Fryerning Lane, Ingatestone 1930s. Demolished to make way for Steen Close in the 1970s. (Courtesy Mrs Hill).
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Horace Sole – he is on the previous photograph. Died on active service with the Arctic Convoys 20.09.1942, and his name on the village war memorial. (Mrs Hill, IBOC).
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Chase Hotel Swimming Pool in the 1930s and 1940s, just over the way from the current school. Demolished early 1960s. (Courtesy Mr V Pitts, (the Author), Mrs D Willis).
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Army Cadets on manoeuvres at the rear of the Old Boys’ School in Fryerning Lane – 1942. Now Steen Close.
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Meads, Meads Close and Pemberton Avenue in 1953. (Courtesy Mrs S Bonnington).
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Meads, Meads Close and the old brick fields (now The Furlongs) – 1953. (Courtesy Mrs S Bonnington)
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Ingatestone Boys’ School football team 1958. (Courtesy Mr N Swatman).
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Members working on the new IBOC building in the High Street in 1959 (now 3 ]A High Street, Ingatestone, adjacent to the Community Association. (Mrs M Bassom).
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First school prize for RWF in 1960, the year my mother died.
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Book plate (G MacDonald The Princess and the Curdie) from another school prize written by Skip Seymour, Head Teacher, in 1961 shortly before his retirement.
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Christening gift from Fryerning Mothers’ Union 1962. Five family members were Christened on the same afternoon, two of my aunts, my two sisters and myself.
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Junior school photograph of RWF reworked in 1971 whilst at Ingatestone Secondary (Après Daguerre, le paix negatif).
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RWF school report July 1963 following the severe winter earlier that year when the old school in Fryerning Lane was closed for weeks.
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RWF and the late David Aggett, another pupil of the school, on a visit to the Transport Museum in Clapham, London with family friend Torry who lived with the Rev. Mellor and his wife at Fryerning Rectory, Blackmore Road, just across the field from the Cemetery, now a private house. This would be a 19thC Great Western loco, a passion of Torry! (Courtesy Miss J Aggett).
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Press cuttings from the Essex Chronicle: 1. The Foundation stone is laid on 1 June 1963 (07.06.1963), 2. Advert for the first Caretaker (03.01.1964), 3. Closure of the Infants’ School run by Mrs Williams (14.02.1964). We must have started in the school after Christmas 1963. (Essex Libraries Chelmsford, Local Studies Section).
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School trip to the R Thames and Windsor Castle (taken by RWF). Memorable for having my photo taken by some adoring American girls from Texas who lived our new school uniform with its white lily badge, with blue and yellow decorations. Somewhere in say Dallas, there exists photos of Ingatestone Junior School pupils taken by a Texas camera girl.
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A section of RWF’s bird-watching notebook from 1964.
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A section of RWF’s nature notebook from 1964.
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Some early poetry written by RWF in 1964, including some poems for a favourite teacher.
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RWF’s final school report July 1964. On my way to Ingatestone Secondary with some worries which were soon overcome.
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First school photo at Ingatestone Secondary (just out of short trousers) with my NABC badge in my blazer.
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Ingatestone Juniors football teams from the 1960s. (Courtesy Mr T Hartard).
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Ingatestone Juniors netball team. RWF’s younger sister Caroline, back row, far right.
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Stones youth football team 1970. IBOC Chairman and Club Leader Keith Cranmer, back row, far right. (Mr T Hartard).
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Ingatestone Juniors class photo of Class 6 from 1983. RWF’s cousin, also Robert Fletcher, is third row, fourth from the left.
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New playground benches funded by the Charles Cox Trust in the early 1990s.
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School Sports Day, probably 1992.
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School Sports Day again.
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School Football Team in an interschool match in 1991/92.
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School Rounder's Team at interschool tournament at Sawyers Hall Lane, Brentwood – 1990/92.
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Mid-Essex Schools Primary Cross Country at Weald Park – 1991/92.
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School Football team – 1991/92.
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Year 6 photo – 1992.
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IBOC 5 Road Race starting in the Market Place (1990s) and The Bell (2008) before it moved to its current route via Fryerning and Beggar Hill starting at the AES in Willow Green.
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EABC Canoe Test on the R Trent at Stone and Donnington Weir – 1993.
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EABC trip to the old Glenborrodale Outdoor Centre on the Ardnamurchan peninsular. This is walking up Ben Nevis – August 1993.
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IFAC Junior Angling Matches at Dawes Farm Lake (1980s) and The Red House Lake (1990s). Fished by many IBOC members and pupils of the Junior School.
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IBOC Football team 1992/93 and presentation in Pemberton Hall.
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IBOC Club House sign on the corner of Pine Close and the Club Hall in the 1990s.
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IBOC set up for Table Tennis and Pool – 1990s.
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IBOC Angling Section members and Leader undertaking litter clearance in the old Shell Better Britain Campaign (1992/93).
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IBOC member playing indoor bowls at Seymour Pavilion, New Road, Ingatestone – 1990s.
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IBOC Cricket Section at Fairfield (early 1990s) and Chelmer Park (mid-1990s).
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IBOC U11 Kwik Cricket Team at the County Ground in the Mobil Matchplay Championships – 1994.
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Old Bowling Green at Fairfield (now the skateboard ramp area) and after erection on cricket nets in 1994.
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IBOC Cricket coaching at Fairfield in 1994, also showing the new artificial wicket.
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EABC cricket coaching at the Indoor School at the County Ground and playing at Nacton School, Suffolk – early 1990s.
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From the Memory wall at the AES Ingatestone – 2011.
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Visit of the High Sherriff of Essex, Julia Abel Smith, to IBOC in May 2013, with support from IFAC Chairman John Bassom.
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Old Member Vic Willis in 1st Paras in Copenhagen in 1945 and his widow Daisy presenting memorabilia relating to his wartime service to the Airborne Forces museum at Duxford – June 2013. (Courtesy IBOC and Mr Tony Willis).
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IBOC members enjoy Stubbers Outdoor Adventure Centre at Upminster in June 2013. (Courtesy Essex Boys & Girls Clubs).
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A poem on his local primary school by the late Ingatestone author and poet Chris Challis (1946-1997). (Courtesy the family of the late C Challis and Mrs D Challis and taken from a collection of poetry published in 1993).
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The school photographed in May 2013, shortly before the 50th anniversary of the laying of the foundation stone on 1 June 1963.