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Foreword by Revd. Garth Munro

Chapter 1: Introduction

Chapter 2: St John’s School (1832-1870)

Chapter 3: 1870 to 1880: The Introduction of Compulsory Education

Chapter 4: 1880 Onwards

Chapter 5: Further Developments with the Boys’, Girls’ and Infants

Chapter 6: Miss Eve Hayward’s Memoroies of St. John’s School and Mr John Ray’s Pagents.

Chapter 7: Bill Porter’s Memories of Forton and St John’s School.

Chapter 8: A Girl at St John’s School.

Chapter 9: Another Girl at St. John’s School.

Forton Map:

Chapter 10: Forton in the early 1900’s

Chapter 11: The Early 1900’s St. John’s Sq. and the Miller family.

Chapter 12: Memories of the Forton Area by Mr FWJ Jenner.

Plan of Buildings in the Forton Area 1900’s

Chapter 13: More About the Boys’ School in Mr J Ray’s Time.

Chapter 14: The Shops in Forton Road 1930’s  and Later.

Chapter 15: Brockhurst Road 1930’s and Later

Chapter 16: The Hermitage

Chapter 17: A Forton Family

Chapter 18: Prizes and Certificates

Chapter 19: More About the Girls School

Chapter 20: The Girls School (Later)

Chapter 21: The Infant’s & Girls Schools (1929 to 1939)

Chapter 22: St. John’s School in Wartime (1939 to 1945)

Chapter 23: 1945 - After the War

Chapter 24: The School from 1960 Onwards

Chapter 25: The Move (21st March 1967)

Thanks & Acknowledgements (from the original book)

Special thanks from me to those who made it possible to add the book to the site. (Ian Jeffery)