Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names : from 1956/7 to 1970/71
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Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names : from 1956/7 to 1970/71
The Ardrossan Academy website has an extensive collection of archive photos which can be found here.
But many of them , though taken from school magazines where the names were printed, don't include those names. I'm therefore setting out to rectify that omission in cases where I have them available; starting here with some of the pictures of prefects.
Rather than link direct to the pictures on the Academy website, where I've found in the past that the addresses tend periodically to change as the site is updated, I'll display my own versions here.
So here are the first two.
The prefects from session 1956-7, from the 1957 magazine:
And the prefects from session 1957-8, from the 1958 magazine:
Susan
But many of them , though taken from school magazines where the names were printed, don't include those names. I'm therefore setting out to rectify that omission in cases where I have them available; starting here with some of the pictures of prefects.
Rather than link direct to the pictures on the Academy website, where I've found in the past that the addresses tend periodically to change as the site is updated, I'll display my own versions here.
So here are the first two.
The prefects from session 1956-7, from the 1957 magazine:
And the prefects from session 1957-8, from the 1958 magazine:
Susan
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Re: Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names: from 1956/7 to 1964/5
Interesting photographs Susan. 1957 was my final year at the Academy. Without names I would have been hard pushed to recognise many of the pupils and even with names there are many I just don't remember. Dick McConnachie was boy dux of the year and Eila (ee-la) Porter was the girl dux. She is not present because she, like me, declined to be a prefect.
Dick McConnachie and Margaret Hayman were joint editors of the school magazine that year (I was sports editor). Margaret was my girl friend throughout that summer until we went our separate ways to University but I really had difficulty recognising her in the photograph. Looking at the 57-58 photograph I would never have recognised Isobel Lee - Cameron Lee's (lemonade) younger daughter. They printed the magazine then at low resolution.
With these two as cognitive yardsticks and using your link to view the archive, I found the three photographs covering '54 - '57 of the 1st XV and have to admit there were many guys I played rugby with that I just did not recognise or could not name. But fascinating to see
many familiar faces - where are they now?
I should also have mentioned Anna Thomlinson (hockey captain) who is not among the chosen but who was by popular acclaim regarded as unofficial head girl. It made some of the prefects look a bit silly.
Edited to correct a typo and include Anna.
Dick McConnachie and Margaret Hayman were joint editors of the school magazine that year (I was sports editor). Margaret was my girl friend throughout that summer until we went our separate ways to University but I really had difficulty recognising her in the photograph. Looking at the 57-58 photograph I would never have recognised Isobel Lee - Cameron Lee's (lemonade) younger daughter. They printed the magazine then at low resolution.
With these two as cognitive yardsticks and using your link to view the archive, I found the three photographs covering '54 - '57 of the 1st XV and have to admit there were many guys I played rugby with that I just did not recognise or could not name. But fascinating to see
many familiar faces - where are they now?
I should also have mentioned Anna Thomlinson (hockey captain) who is not among the chosen but who was by popular acclaim regarded as unofficial head girl. It made some of the prefects look a bit silly.
Edited to correct a typo and include Anna.
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Re: Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names: from 1956/7 to 1964/5
Thanks Scott. I did know about that part of the website and I had added my own brief biography several years ago. I didn't know about the image archive. As Susan points out many of the images don't have names and in the days before digital cameras and desktop publishing, the image quality is very poor.
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Re: Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names: from 1956/7 to 1964/5
Here are a couple more pictures: 1958-9 and 1959-60.
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Re: Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names: from 1956/7 to 1964/5
Loved the Photos,
This was my era and I knew quite a few of them. Interesting to note that the teachers names were given but not the name of the rector who was Danny MacFarlane. Miss King who is in all of the photos was aging then and was known as Old Maggie. Very few knew that many years before as a young woman she represented Scotland in the Ladies Hockey team, I did see a team photo once and there she was.
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This was my era and I knew quite a few of them. Interesting to note that the teachers names were given but not the name of the rector who was Danny MacFarlane. Miss King who is in all of the photos was aging then and was known as Old Maggie. Very few knew that many years before as a young woman she represented Scotland in the Ladies Hockey team, I did see a team photo once and there she was.
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There's a piece here all about Miss King that appeared on the occasion of her retirement in 1960:
http://www.ardacad.co.uk/arc/leavers/king/king.shtml
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And by the way, very pleased to see this topic is sparking so much interest among you.
http://www.ardacad.co.uk/arc/leavers/king/king.shtml
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And by the way, very pleased to see this topic is sparking so much interest among you.
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Re: Ardrossan Academy prefect photos with names: from 1956/7 to 1964/5
Another pair of pictures now: from 1960-61 and 1961-62.
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Another two prefect pictures, from 1962-63 and 1963-64. The latter comes with a few bonus autographs, including quite by chance two who later became teachers at the Academy, albeit briefly; Wendy Stewart ( English ) and Alison Brown ( French ).
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One more prefect photo in this set: the one from session 1964-5. This one should be of particular interest to Milda, because there will be a lot of her contemporaries in it.
The participants include my late sister Anne Nock, and this is why I can also add an almost complete set of autographs to go with it:
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The participants include my late sister Anne Nock, and this is why I can also add an almost complete set of autographs to go with it:
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I was going to leave these two out, because the full pictures with names are already available on the Academy website; but I thought after all I might as well include them after all for completeness' sake. So here are the prefect pictures for 1965-66 and 1966-67.
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Next pair of prefect photos: 1967-68 and 1968-69, and these are once again not available in this form on the Academy archive website.
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