School teachers at Kingston Bagpuize
Miss Castle
20th Sept 1940 Faringdon Gazette -reported that Longworth W.I. had speaker Miss Castle formerly schoolmistress of Kingston Bagpuise. 'A delightful talk on "Local History" which specially included churches'
The school mistress Miss Castle lived next to the Reading Room, in the old village Hall.
Source: Sybil Beard
Miss Russell
Mrs Russell was the Post mistress and her daughter Marjorie was the teacher of what we called the ‘little room’.
My mother Marjorie Russell was born in Kingston Bagpuize and lived in the old Post Office. She taught at the little school which is now the scouts hut. My grandparents were Aubrey and Mary Russell who ran the Post Office.
I went to Kingston school. The playground was divided into boys and girls. In those days we had three class rooms and a full complement of 48 children in the school with 3 teachers. If 48 were there for a whole week we had an extra play on a Friday afternoon. So we used to say `Don’t be ill, don’t be ill!’ The girls on a Wednesday used to go by carrier bus to Abingdon for domestic science – cookery mostly, sometimes washing and ironing. I didn’t enjoy it. The mistress there, she was a real dragon. She used to shout and frightened the little village folk to death. The boys used to go on a Thursday for woodwork to the council school in Conduit Street.”
Other Teachers remembered from 1967 onwards are:
- Graham Platt - Head
- Pam Barling - Deputy Head
- Mrs M.E.Mingard - taught infants
- Mrs [Hetty ]Young - taught very young
- Joan Weaving
- Gillian Squires
- David Sandford
- Derek Clements
- Ann Preston
- Ruth Bryan
- Dawn Plumbley
- Carol Rollinson
- Sue Clarke
- Amberley Clark
- Jill Whall
- D.A Rosevear
- J.O. Hayman
- Joan Graham