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Old Photographs of Bemrose School, Derby.
This page features old pictures of Bemrose School, supplied by former pupils.

This large panoramic photograph was supplied to me by Alan Rose of Long Eaton and it featured all the boys and teachers at the school in 1953, The Coronation Year.
Broadband is recommended for viewing the photo but you may use a 56K dial-up modem if you are willing to wait.

This photo is VERY long and may take anything upto 3 minutes to fully load if using a 56K dial-up connection so please be patient. Once the photograph has fully loaded you will be able to scroll the photo right and left using the mouse, no clicking required to do this. To move the photo simply place the mouse pointer over the right or left areas of the photo and the image will scroll in that direction. The scrolling speed can be controlled depending on how near the edges of the photo you get with the mouse. There is a central 'dead area' on the photo where the image will stop scrolling. The popup will vanish after 8 seconds so you can view the photo.

To close the photo just click anywhere on the photo.
Please note that the image can not be scrolled until it has completely loaded in.
The image start position is at the far left so you must scroll right initially!

If you know someone on this photo or if you are on this photo then please get in touch. Alan Rose would love to hear from you. In particular Mrs Hayward the Spanish teacher.

I would like to thank Robin Knott for confirming that Michael Knowles (who played Captain Ashwood in the classic Britcom It ain't half hot mum) was in the Sixth Form in 1953/54 and played the lead in the annual Shakespear play.

To read comments made by people about this page, scroll down to below this thumbnail.

If you were a former pupil then you may also be interested in my modern Bemrose 75th Anniversary photos HERE.

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Guestbook Comments about this page :

Hi Andy, Those new photos of Bemroses are very good, I wouldnt recognise the place now, The Hall is still the same with one exception, 1953/54 they had a new organ installed on the Balcony at the back of the Hall, which seems to have flown out of the window, Mr Eades the music teacher was quite proud of that instrument. It sounded a little better than metal drums. I dont have any fond memories of Bemroses in fact no memories at all, just the odd teacher. I do or did have a cousin who went there in the 1940's, John Rose,from Alvaston but I have no contact with him. He was at Bemrose from 1937 to about 1942 he eventually gained a PhD in Zoology and worked at the London Zoo, I found that out from his brother who still lives in Alvaston. Fortunately for my parents they only paid one month for my education at Bemrose, and I think they were overcharged.

Alan Rose
02-08-2005
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Your site brings history alive. The large school picture of Bemrose school 1953 was interesting as that was the year that I graduated from Bemrose and emigrated with my parents to Montreal. I found myself in the very back row, just to the left of the building, the blond kid with the happy smile. To my right were John Mole and Micheal Knowles. One often wonders what has happened to ones friends over the years. That is one of the problems in this modern world where people are so mobile, one loses contact with one's roots.

The new pictures of Bemrose school were particularity interesting... I always remembered it as a very good looking building but I wondered if I was looking back with rose coloured glasses, but no, it is a handsome building.The type of classic design that still looks good a hundred years after it was built. Something that cannot be said for many of the "modern" buildings that arose in
the sixties.

All the best, Ken Scott
Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
08-08-2005
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Hello Andy, I am on top row (Half hidden) aged 15. I left Summer 1954
Question: I can recognise one or two classmates but have difficulty finding most. I was in the school choir circa 1949/51 and we made a recording at BBC Birmingham for Children's Hour.
Does anyone else remember this? There was a 78 rpm record made . Does anyone have a copy? Are the following still around ? Jimmy Green Keith Cave Moggy Byett Tom Sparks Ken Dodgson Judith the school sec who everyone fancied (Including me )

Mike Elston
Derby
10-02-2007



This large panoramic photograph was supplied to me by Brian Coxon of Derby and it featured all the boys and teachers at the school in 1948.
Broadband is recommended for viewing the photo but you may use a 56K dial-up modem if you are willing to wait.

This photo is VERY long and may take anything upto 3 minutes to fully load if using a 56K dial-up connection so please be patient. Once the photograph has fully loaded you will be able to scroll the photo right and left using the mouse, no clicking required to do this. To move the photo simply place the mouse pointer over the right or left areas of the photo and the image will scroll in that direction. The scrolling speed can be controlled depending on how near the edges of the photo you get with the mouse. There is a central 'dead area' on the photo where the image will stop scrolling. The popup will vanish after 8 seconds so you can view the photo.

To close the photo just click anywhere on the photo.
Please note that the image can not be scrolled until it has completely loaded in.
The image start position is at the far left so you must scroll right initially!

If you know someone on this photo or if you are on this photo then please get in touch.

If you were a former pupil then you may also be interested in my modern Bemrose 75th Anniversary photos HERE.

DP-OLDBEMROSE-02



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