School Sports pics





Walsingham School Area Sports Day (1949 ?)

can you put names to faces ?

So far we have -


Back row - Robin Carver , Jennifer Frary , Bernard Howell , Mary Shepard , Maurice Coleman ,
Veronica Wright , John Brett , ? , Shirley Money , ? , Rosamond Walker

Middle Row - Dorothy Howell , Rodney Dewing , Tony Seaman , Gillian Borlace , Douglas Lawrence

Front Row - , Margery Money , Sidney Scott , Michael Yarham , Maureen Willacy, Joy Frary

woman in coat on the left is suggested as Ann Claxton

please excuse any guesswork - any names or corrections would be most welcome




Area sports days were competed by various local schools with each of the larger schools playing host on a different year. Those representing Walsingham Primary would have been the winners in each event at the schools sports day

Each school wore diferent coloured bands - Wells wore red, Burnham Market wore yellow and black, Walsingham wore blue ..........


" there was one area sports day, when Jimmy Bunns bus taking us to Burnham Market school hadn't turned up on time, so the headmaster Mr Grace piled as many kids from the early races into to his car, a Rover I think, and shot off. We hit 90 mph at some points before screeching into the school yard.




Walsingham sports day. Until the early 60's there were four teams on sports day. As numbers decreased the teams were reduced to the reds, blues and yellows with the greens being divided into the other three teams

It was around that time that Mr Stocking made the shields that were carried by each team, Angles (Horned hat) Reds, Vikings (winged hat) Blues and Romans (Roman hat) Yellows






Walsingham Primary School - Sports Day 1981 (?)

furthest row, from the left Neil Halls, Nicky Hudson, David Dewing?, Philip Gant?,
Andrew Pegg, Leighton Grove, Jamie McColl, Simon Leicester, Noel Dent/Beckham?

nearest row from the left Kathleen Grimes, Jamie Mortimer?, Sarah Nelson?, Rachel Glover, ? ,
Sandra Williamson, Rebecca Allen, ? ,Sarah Claxton?

Captains Anna Belton & Michael Saunders



Races were - running, relay, skipping (girls), sack race (boys), three legged race, obstacle and high jump. The age groups were 7 and under, 9 and under and 11 and under. The 'starter' was (for many years) Eric Seaman whose wife was the lollipop lady - and job later taken by Mrs Baldwin, then Jill Howard.








Walsingham Primary School - Sports Day 1983 (?)



Back row - ? - ? - ? - ? - ? McColl - ?

middle row ? - Hassan - ? - kennedy - ? - Hassan - ? - Atkins


front row ? - ? - ? - - ? - ? - ? - ?

(apologies for only using surnames, can anyone help with names ?)



If you came first, second or third in a race you were given a circular coloured piece of card/paper by one of the judges watching who crossed the line. You then presented that to the judges table.









Walsingham Primary School - Sports Day 1985

Becky Allen and Jamie McColl are the two captains


on the furthest row - Leighton Grove, looking at Neil Halls ........

nearest row - Emma Belton, Sandra Williamson, Anna Hassan, ? ,Sarah Claxton?, ? ,Nicole Ashby .......

any help with names would be most welcome




Races were - running, skipping (girls), sack race (boys), three legged race, obstacle and high jump. The age groups were 7 and under, 9 and under and 11 and under. The 'starter' was (for many years) Eric Seaman whose wife was the lollypop lady - and job later taken by Mrs Baldwin then Jill Howard.


After all the races had finished those who came in the top three places were presented with something known locally as a 'sir stiffy cut'. The winning team was the one whose members had won the most points - 3 for a win, 2 for second 1 for third.





Walsingham Primary School - Sports Day 1985



" I remember the 1968 sports day. It was on a Wednesday evening and the weather was dark and overcast. Manchester United were playing Benfica in the European Cup the same night and a lot of the dads were eager to slip off to watch the game "




Walsingham Primary School Football Team 0ct 1968

Andrew Smith, Peter Tuck, Gary Greaves, Jeremy Glazebrook, Colin Thomas, Reggie Cooper

Andy Williamson, Carl Woodhouse, Jan Glazebrook, Timothy Childs, Errol McColl, Steven Smith












Walsingham Primary School Football Team 1985

Jamie McColl, Dessie Kennedy; James Belton; Justin Francis; Daniel Armstrong;

Carl Warnes; Neil Halls; Leighton Grove











Walsingham Primary School Football Team 1984 ?

James McColl, Leighton Grove; Andrew Pegg; Lee Acton

Simon Acton; Neil Halls; David Dewing