Group photo project
1950 – Church millenary festival
When St. Andrew’s was being restored in 1903, builders discovered fragments of
six stone crosses. These were dated to around 950AD.
So, in the 1950, the church celebrated 1000 years of religious worship at St.
Andrew’s, with what they called a “Millenary Festival”.
There were special church services, concerts, pageants and – at some point – past
and present members of the choir, the congregation, and guests gathered on the
church steps for a commemorative photograph.
Top left segment.
David
House
Herbert
Whitaker
Dennis
Laycock
Fanny
Tillotson
Anthony
Hargreaves
Evelyn
Beck
Bennie
Hutchinson
John
Roberts
Gladys
House
Miss
Spencer
Joyce
Ellis
Alice
Smith
Arthur
Holding
Anna
Hargreaves ?
Mary
Ellison
Wilfred
Whitaker
Eric
Zillessen
Joe
Tilloton
William
Feather
Jack
Feather
Lower left segment.
Peter
Armitage
Eva Steel
John
Holding
David
Ellis
Norman
Jennings
Richard
Hagar
Frank Davy
Ronald
Bell
Central segment.
Christine
Overend
Rev.
Walkden
Marion
Wilson
Elsie Paver
Muriel
Foster
Ruth
Armistead
Stanley
Tillotson
Keith Bunnett
Alec
Hargreaves
Charles
Bunnett
Mr. Edgar Auty
(school headmaster)
Kenneth
Simpson
Billy Oldham
Kathleen
Moore
Eddie
Townson
Beatrice
Laycock
Mabel
Sugden
Lower right segment.
Betty
Steele
Rosemary
Binns
Betty Mitchell
Brian Ellis
Margaret
Cockshott
Julian
Holding
Phillip
Stott
John
Binns
David
Riley
Graham
Binns
Arthur Moore
Arthur
Davy
Upper right segment.
Gladys Overend
John
Hargreaves
Olivia Smith
Tom
Hargreaves
Sydney
Sunderland
Jim Royston
Wilson
Wright
Eddie
Hollings
Albert Tempest
(choirmaster / organist
John
Jackson
About the “Group photographs project”
A number of group photographs have been contributed to our archive with very
little information attached to them. The aim of this project is to capture as much
detail as we can from those who remember the events and people shown.
For this photograph, our team of “identifiers” included: Margaret Steptoe, Ruth
Ward, Rosemary Hargreaves, Jill Ideson, Dennis and Christine Laycock, David
Riley, Christine Whiteoak, Joyce Hindle, and Robert Bracken.
We are very grateful to all of these people for their help.
