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On Ascension Day the children went into school and got their mark, went together into the church service and had a holiday for the rest of the day. Mrs. Mansell used to go to St. John’s Church and Sunday School as well as to the school.  On Whit Sunday there was a service on the vicarage lawn.  There was a procession from the church.  The girls wore white dresses and white socks and shoes and panama hats.  They carried flowers. The Rev. R. O’Gorman Power went into school every Friday to teach scripture. Two girls from Standard Ex VII went to water the flowers in church once a week and got out of scripture.

Mr. Le Bun was caretaker at the school at this time.  He lived in the last of Garland Cottages.  These cottages went back from Mrs. Carter’s florist shop.  The caretaker used to come into the school carrying his brush and a bucket of coal for the stove.

The teachers then were:-           Miss. Fisher                               Miss. Wilde                              Miss. Lee                                    Miss. Hawkey (later Mrs. Frances)

Miss. Johns was head.  She arranged missionary plays, Mrs. M was in one about Melanesia.  She had her face darkened and was dressed up in a raffia skirt.

During the depression (1922-23) a small room between the Infants’ School and the Girls’ School was used as a soup kitchen.  It was a very pathetic sight to see children and adults queueing with their jugs or other containers.

Teachers used this room for their bikes.

Gosport Police Officers (the whole force for Gosport)        Hampshire Force (1936-37) including Mr Tyrell and Mr Woodland.