St Aidan's Infants, Longhill 1952.
Known faces are : 7th from left back row Alfie Walsh.
Middle: ?, ?,Harold Hatley, Veronica Bennett, Paula Nash, Linda Braham, Ivor THomas, ?, Carole O Connor, ?, ? , Tommy Rudd, ?
Front row: 4th from left Marlene Hall,?,Margaret Pike, Irene Chilton, ? ,?, Miss Dobson, ?, Carole Thompson, Pauline Ainsley, ? , Valerie STott , Jaqueline Playfor
The teacher is Miss Doreen Rouse, who later married Seaton Golf Professional Roy Harlow.
Date (of image) : 1952
Donor : Christine Fox
Location
This school opened in August 1874 for the children of Longhill or Wagga estate built by Thomas Richardson.
In 1887, there were 340 children on role and in by 1906 there were 548. In 1899, a new extension was built for infant children. This was opened in 1902 and the mayor and mayoress were unable to reach the school because of the poor road to it.
Eventually the school was an infants' school only as part of St Aidan's School and the young children finally were relocated to the 'big school' in Loyalty Road in 1960. The school building which was surrounded by steel works buildings was for many years afterwards used a garage for a haulage company. The school was affectionately known as 'Wagga College' or 'The Little School'.
More detail »This school opened in 1926. See also notes and images for St Aidan's Longhill.
More detail »'Wagga' was a local nickname for the area officially called Longhill. It was an area originally built by Thomas Richardson to the west of his steelworks comprising Florence Street, Hill Street and Portland Street and these remote streets, named after the Australian Wagga Wagga, were remote from the rest of the town and without drainage or paving. The whole area around Sydenham Road eventually was given this nickname.
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