Loftus Junior School (c.1957)

Back row: John Atkinson, Peter Tilley, Colin Pressick, Ronald Hebditch, David Hebron, Alan Garbutt, Keith Ferguson.

Middle row: Alan Tebble, Howard Morrison, Terry Cross, Barry Wilson, Keith Steyert, John Jackson, Tony Wilkinson, Richard Webster, Eric Jackson, David Blackmore, Paul Robinson, Barry Ward.

Front row: Mary Yeoman, Pam Edwards, Ruth Harrison, Audrey Whitwell, Jean Smith, Barbara Bottomley, Miss Wood, Joyce Liddiard, Christine Ebbs, Ann Anderson, Jean Duck, Margaret Cowen, Ian Peirson.

Miss Wood later married John Howard, another local teacher (Loftus Senior School) as well as author of several books on Staithes and its residents. Peter Tilley asked: “I wonder where all these people on this photograph are now?”

Image and names courtesy of Audrey Souter (Whitwell), thanks to Peter Tilley for the update.