Staff P-Z
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Details of Music teachers are listed separately
Details of Music teachers are listed separately
PAGE Simon (1976-77)
PALMER Miss E L (1955-1957)
Matron
PARRY Ellis.N.G.
On the staff for 4 years before the war. Afterwards, with his wife Kitty (Smeall) who also taught at Aymestrey and who predeceased him, ran Hazelwood School in Surrey for many years (1992 magazine) Their 3 sons all came to Aymestrey.
Mr Parry died in 1992.
PALMER Miss E L (1955-1957)
Matron
PARRY Ellis.N.G.
On the staff for 4 years before the war. Afterwards, with his wife Kitty (Smeall) who also taught at Aymestrey and who predeceased him, ran Hazelwood School in Surrey for many years (1992 magazine) Their 3 sons all came to Aymestrey.
Mr Parry died in 1992.
PASTFIELD Mrs (1941)
Assistant Matron
PAYNE Miss (1920)
Joined the ‘non-resident’ teaching staff, replacing Miss Holyoake.
PERFITT Mr M R R (?-1939)
Left at Easter to go to the RAF
PERRYMAN Mrs Anne (1996-1998)
Visiting hairdresser
POPPLEWELL Mrs (1990s)
Weekend matron
POWELL Mrs S M (Part-time, ? - 1997)
Taught PE and Science
POYNER Mrs Edith (1950s)
Domestic staff/cook
PRESTON Mr (1910 - ?1922)
Died 1929 aged 78
Cook in Malvern
PRICE Mr S (1957)
Joined Teaching Staff for Summer Term
PROBERT Miss A (1965-?)
Assistant Matron
Assistant Matron
PAYNE Miss (1920)
Joined the ‘non-resident’ teaching staff, replacing Miss Holyoake.
PERFITT Mr M R R (?-1939)
Left at Easter to go to the RAF
PERRYMAN Mrs Anne (1996-1998)
Visiting hairdresser
POPPLEWELL Mrs (1990s)
Weekend matron
POWELL Mrs S M (Part-time, ? - 1997)
Taught PE and Science
POYNER Mrs Edith (1950s)
Domestic staff/cook
PRESTON Mr (1910 - ?1922)
Died 1929 aged 78
Cook in Malvern
PRICE Mr S (1957)
Joined Teaching Staff for Summer Term
PROBERT Miss A (1965-?)
Assistant Matron
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PULLINGER Mr Henry L (1949 – 1952)
Taught Maths “I knew the school well in the 1930s when as a boy at RGS. We used to play cricket at under 14 level against you. Then in 1949 I spent some three years teaching Maths in the school . It was a good experience. The small staff always reckoned that Dan Asterley could do every job better than anyone he appointed but had to have them because he couldn’t split himself so many ways!” |
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PYE Miss G M (~1913)
is Matron at a Preparatory School in Buxton (1920 magazine). |
This is probably Miss Pye
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PYE Miss S H (1937-1938)
Took Cubs
RACKSTRAW Miss J B (1953-1956)
RAWLINGS (~1915)
Domestic staff at Malvern
READ Mr J (1949-?)
Replaced Mr Lyon-Williams
REES Mr (1935-1936)
ASM
REID Mr Reginald (see Music Teachers)
REYNOLDS Rev W H (pre 1920)
Took Cubs
RACKSTRAW Miss J B (1953-1956)
RAWLINGS (~1915)
Domestic staff at Malvern
READ Mr J (1949-?)
Replaced Mr Lyon-Williams
REES Mr (1935-1936)
ASM
REID Mr Reginald (see Music Teachers)
REYNOLDS Rev W H (pre 1920)
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RICE Mr Cuthbert Charles (1929-Summer 1930) Taught swimming |
Mr Rice 1929
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ROBINSON Miss D M (1948-1952)
Replaced Miss Douglas as First Form teacher.
She visited in 1961/2.
She joined the staff at Aymestrey in 1948, leaving in 1952 because of illness in the family. Her great interest was in Scouting, and she at once started a Cub Pack in the school, which she ran with such skill and enthusiasm that they twice won the Local Association’s shield and once the ward for the whole county. Her work was inspiring in all departments of school life, and she had a tremendous influence on all who passed through her hands. All boys who have enjoyed Camp in the last thirty years may reflect that it was Robbie who organized a marvelous bazaar which enabled us to buy the tents. They have been a memorial to her which she would – and indeed did – appreciate.
‘Robbie’ died in January (1985). (1985 magazine)
Replaced Miss Douglas as First Form teacher.
She visited in 1961/2.
She joined the staff at Aymestrey in 1948, leaving in 1952 because of illness in the family. Her great interest was in Scouting, and she at once started a Cub Pack in the school, which she ran with such skill and enthusiasm that they twice won the Local Association’s shield and once the ward for the whole county. Her work was inspiring in all departments of school life, and she had a tremendous influence on all who passed through her hands. All boys who have enjoyed Camp in the last thirty years may reflect that it was Robbie who organized a marvelous bazaar which enabled us to buy the tents. They have been a memorial to her which she would – and indeed did – appreciate.
‘Robbie’ died in January (1985). (1985 magazine)
ROBISON Miss (1968)
Art teacher
ROSE Miss (1921)
May have taught Swimming
ROWBERRY Mrs Betty (~1960-1970) (and 1990s)
Domestic staff. Betty returned in the 1990s to do weekend work.
Her grandparents (Mr & Mrs Tyler) worked for the Bramwells as gardeners and lived in Claphill Lane; and her elder sister Gladys worked for the Asterleys.
Art teacher
ROSE Miss (1921)
May have taught Swimming
ROWBERRY Mrs Betty (~1960-1970) (and 1990s)
Domestic staff. Betty returned in the 1990s to do weekend work.
Her grandparents (Mr & Mrs Tyler) worked for the Bramwells as gardeners and lived in Claphill Lane; and her elder sister Gladys worked for the Asterleys.
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RUNDALL Lt Col J W (1950 - 1952)
Replaced Mr Glover. Taught history and geography, In 1950 he built a steam powered model railway near the gym. |
Nick Bomford (1947-1952) remembers Col Rundall nurtured his early interest in history:
He was a brilliant and inspiring teacher with a real capacity for bringing his subjects to life. He was good with his hands and spent much of his spare time building models in a workshop he set up in one of the cellars and where he welcomed visitors, freely imparting advice, wisdom and encouragement to those who were receptive to it. |
_ SANDY Sergeant (at Malvern)
Took Gym
SELLS Mr
Scoutmaster in 1933
Took Gym
SELLS Mr
Scoutmaster in 1933
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SERGEANTSON Miss K (?-1929) Violinist - played during the scene shifting for The Water Babies (1921) |
Serjie 1926
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SHORTER Mr C S (?-1940)
SILENSKY Miss E – see Music Teachers
SMEALL Miss Kitty (1936)
She taught the junior forms and was in charge of art and handicrafts throughout the school, her enthusiastic personality making a great impression. She and Ellis Parry, also on the staff, became engaged, and after their marriage they ran Hazelwood School in Surrey for many years, in due course sending all their three sons (Andrew, Alistair & Robert) to Aymestrey. (1990 magazine)
She died in 1989
She taught the junior forms and was in charge of art and handicrafts throughout the school, her enthusiastic personality making a great impression. She and Ellis Parry, also on the staff, became engaged, and after their marriage they ran Hazelwood School in Surrey for many years, in due course sending all their three sons (Andrew, Alistair & Robert) to Aymestrey. (1990 magazine)
She died in 1989
SMITH Mr F G (pre 1944)
Taught carpentry for 22 years.
He died in 1944.
Taught carpentry for 22 years.
He died in 1944.
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SNOWDEN Col Hugh P1909-1914(Died 1968)
Assistant Master, who taught Latin, among other subjects. He was seldom without his yellow calabash pipe and reminded me of Sherlock Holmes Lester Steynor (1911-1915). After Aymestrey he served in the First World War. After the war he taught at Dulwich College. Capt H P Snowden MC (is) doing good work in the Army Education Department. He still plays a good deal of hockey. (1920 magazine) |
Hugh Snowden
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SPEARES Miss Irene M (see Music Teachers)
SPENCER Mr (~1959)
Art teacher
STOKES Mrs Molly (1944-1950s)
Housekeeper
Accompanied evening services and Sunday evening hymn singing on the hall piano
STONE Mrs (? - 1997)
Taught the juniors and History
SUTTON Mr Mervyn C (1926-1929)
(He) is leaving us for a post in Geneva. He has done a great deal for the school; under his editorship the magazine has been enlarged and improved, while the Colours scheme owes its inception and development almost entirely to him. He has always been most keen for the best interests of the school, is deservedly popular and will be greatly missed by us all. (Summer 1929 magazine)
TANNER Mr (1969)
Taught Art.
(He) was very informative about Arab culture, and put on a school play about Noah’s Ark
Des Knox 1966-1970)
SPENCER Mr (~1959)
Art teacher
STOKES Mrs Molly (1944-1950s)
Housekeeper
Accompanied evening services and Sunday evening hymn singing on the hall piano
STONE Mrs (? - 1997)
Taught the juniors and History
SUTTON Mr Mervyn C (1926-1929)
(He) is leaving us for a post in Geneva. He has done a great deal for the school; under his editorship the magazine has been enlarged and improved, while the Colours scheme owes its inception and development almost entirely to him. He has always been most keen for the best interests of the school, is deservedly popular and will be greatly missed by us all. (Summer 1929 magazine)
TANNER Mr (1969)
Taught Art.
(He) was very informative about Arab culture, and put on a school play about Noah’s Ark
Des Knox 1966-1970)
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TAYLOR Charles Mark
(1924-1965)
Engaged originally as ‘School Porter’, he was soon much more than that – carpenter, decorator, electrician, skilled engineer of every kind, and friend of everyone connected with the School. No tangible crisis at any hour of the day or night ever found him other than eager to help and able to cope with success; and he was keenly interested in all the School’s doings, and in the boys as individuals, being always glad to hear of their subsequent doings even in much later years. Intensely patriotic … his greatest praise for event or person was “Makes you proud to be British”, and no better epitaph could be found for him: he made you proud to be British. There are many who will be proud, too, and touched to know that his ashes were brought from Cheshire and now rest by the side of the drive along which he walked to work those thousands of times. (1981 magazine) He lived with his wife in The Lodge; and was an Honorary member of the Old Aymestrey Association. He died in August 1980 aged 85 |
Taylor was very strong:
One day a gale shifted the gym from its foundations: Taylor was called to have a look : ten minutes later 'I’ve put the gym back, sir'. (Autumn 65 magazine) “One indelible memory – although we only heard about it afterwards – is of him firing his shotgun at a Junkers 88 which circled the school at an extremely low height when the pilot was looking for somewhere worthwhile to drop his bombs to lighten his load before going home. To this day I can remember the moment in the classroom when we saw this aeroplane out of the window and froze as we realized it was a German plane with the unmistakable swastika and cross on the body and wings.” Jim Page (1939-45) |
TAYLOR Mrs (no relation to Charles) (1970s & 1980s)
Domestic staff, and breakfast cook
Mrs Taylor lived in the Lodge with her family
THOMAS Mr (1950s)
Taught carpentry in the stables
THOMASON Dr R W
Medical officer to the School for 30 years
In 1971 he was made an honorary member of OAA
Domestic staff, and breakfast cook
Mrs Taylor lived in the Lodge with her family
THOMAS Mr (1950s)
Taught carpentry in the stables
THOMASON Dr R W
Medical officer to the School for 30 years
In 1971 he was made an honorary member of OAA
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TROTMAN Major Charles Rowland (1958-1968)
Taught French He served during the war as a major in the Tank corps in Egypt, where he was wounded in the head, resulting in some loss of hearing and considerable pain which was to be with him for the rest of his life. After (a period of time farming he and his wife) came to Aymestrey. Trotty will be remembered here for a long time, not only for his teaching, but for the gaiety with which he took part in anything and everything that was going on and for the willingness with which he took on any job, even the dullest, which needed doing. The joy on his face with the boys presented him with an anchor, for the boat he had built, will be an abiding memory; we wish him many years of good sailing in the River Deben. (1969 Magazine) |
He had a rather special sense of humour, a caring smile
and an infectious enthusiasm for the school (1990 magazine)
He was an inspiration to us all; the extent of his pain, especially in his last years, was totally concealed by his cheerfulness. Edward Tildesley 1964-69 (1990 magazine) Major Trotman spoke good French, was a good French teacher and well-regarded. Andrew Gosling (1956-1960) |
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_VICARY Mr (?-1920)
A member of the resident staff. Replaced by Mr Dodds. VINE Miss L (?-1949) WALES Mrs Gill (1972-1998) She established Aymestrey’s reputation for excellent art early on and it has never changed. Very many boys taught by her have gone on to get an A in ‘A’ level art. (1998 magazine) |
Mrs Wales
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WALLER Mr G L (1952-1963)
He may have been part-time before 1952 Taught English and Latin He had been headmaster of Finstall Park; and was a “sportsman-schoolmaster of the old sort, for whose passing a great many people are the poorer.” (Spring 1964 magazine) He died in 1964 |
(He) seemed very old and learned in the late 1950s.
He had retired from being a headmaster at another school. I remember him making
Latin puns including on my name Gosling when he asked if I knew
the "anser" (Latin for goose)
Andrew Gosling (1956-1960) |
_ WALKER Miss D E (?1949-1955)
Married Mr T J R Lee in 1954. Both continued on the staff.
A son was born in July 1955.
WALKER Miss M (1949-?)
Replaced Miss Vine; joining her sister
WATT Mr R C (Summer Term 1950)
WELLSPRING PJ (1982-1998)
Just before his son left to go to Malvern, PJ Wellspring offered to teach computers here. At that time we had a Nascom 1 but very soon Macintoshes appeared and this subject went from strength to strength. Old boys wrote back to say that they did not learn any more about computing at their next schools than they had learnt here. He has also taught Biology and for many years has been the mainstay of the production of the Aymestrey magazine.(1998 magazine)
Married Mr T J R Lee in 1954. Both continued on the staff.
A son was born in July 1955.
WALKER Miss M (1949-?)
Replaced Miss Vine; joining her sister
WATT Mr R C (Summer Term 1950)
WELLSPRING PJ (1982-1998)
Just before his son left to go to Malvern, PJ Wellspring offered to teach computers here. At that time we had a Nascom 1 but very soon Macintoshes appeared and this subject went from strength to strength. Old boys wrote back to say that they did not learn any more about computing at their next schools than they had learnt here. He has also taught Biology and for many years has been the mainstay of the production of the Aymestrey magazine.(1998 magazine)
WILLIAMS George (1980s)
Maintenance
WOOD Mrs Joan (1960s-1970s)
Matron
Maintenance
WOOD Mrs Joan (1960s-1970s)
Matron
_WORTON Miss M (1943-61)
Miss Worton … was Caterer and Cook … and few people have spent 18 years contributing so much so directly to the well-being and pleasure of the boys. Being herself one who worked with consuming energy to the limit of her endurance, she was not always tolerant of the shortcomings of others, and in her hatred of anything second-rate she was not above interfering outside her province. But no-one would deny that she did her own job superbly. Nothing was too much trouble if it was done for the boys’; and not content with producing routine meals to the highest standard, she was constantly working to all hours to provide some extra treat. Her complete loyalty and devotion were beyond question and beyond praise. (1979 magazine)
She lived in the same village, Hagley, and each beginning and end of term my parents would take her in the car with us to and from school. She was big, friendly and very talkative. Andrew Gosling (1956-1960)
YOUNG Mr F F (1938)
Miss Worton … was Caterer and Cook … and few people have spent 18 years contributing so much so directly to the well-being and pleasure of the boys. Being herself one who worked with consuming energy to the limit of her endurance, she was not always tolerant of the shortcomings of others, and in her hatred of anything second-rate she was not above interfering outside her province. But no-one would deny that she did her own job superbly. Nothing was too much trouble if it was done for the boys’; and not content with producing routine meals to the highest standard, she was constantly working to all hours to provide some extra treat. Her complete loyalty and devotion were beyond question and beyond praise. (1979 magazine)
She lived in the same village, Hagley, and each beginning and end of term my parents would take her in the car with us to and from school. She was big, friendly and very talkative. Andrew Gosling (1956-1960)
YOUNG Mr F F (1938)