Thank you to Jimmy Munro for sending us this fabulous photograph from 1966. It is a Primary 5 class with their teacher , Mrs Thomson.
The picture above was given to us by Elizabeth Thacker (nee Smith). She believes it was taken around 1960 and is of her brother’s class. Thank you so much to Elizabeth for taking the time to send us the photograph and the names. The teacher is Miss McInnes.
Back row: Iain Smith, Harry McGarvie, Stuart Lamont, John Chiltern, Alex ?, Bobby Osborne, Colin Yule, Drew McLaughlin, Jimmy Osborne, David Allen
Middle row: Martin Norval, ??, Denis Walls, Jim Brown, Leslie Strachan
Front row: Bobby Howie, Jeanette Brown, Sheila Hamilton, Sylvia Laird, Netta Lynn, Marlyn McMillan, Jessie Waugh, Wilma Reid, Margaret Wilson, Stephen Barclay.
Elizabeth also gave this one of her own P5 class in 1961/62: Teacher: Mrs Mitchell (?)
Back row: Brian Niven, Ronnie Waddell, Bobby Adair, Colin Gibson, Allan Robertson, David Andrew
Middle row: Patricia Fidom, Margaret Johnston, Linda Jack, Alison Anderson
Front row: Yvonne Dick, Sheila Cooper, Irene Stewart, Elizabeth Smith, Agnes Murdoch, Barbara Smith, Elizabeth Bryden, Marilyn Dunlop, Catherine Baxter, Edith Wilson
The final picture given to us by Elizabeth is of her Primary 7 class from 1963-64. Teacher (left) Miss Parker(?) Student teacher (right) Miss Frew (?)
Back row: David Andrew, Ronnie Waddell, Allan Robertson, Bobby Adair, Colin Gibson, Brian Niven, Peter ?
Middle row: Alison Anderson, Margaret Johnston, Linda Jack, Patricia Fidom
Front row: Irene Stewart, Marilyn Dunlop, Elizabeth Bryden, Elizabeth Smith, Agnes Murdoch, Sheila Cooper, Catherine Baxter, Edith Wilson
The photograph above was given by Janie Reas – thank you, Janie. The teacher is Miss Paton and it is possibly 1968.
Back row left to right: James Morrison, Jay Bolland, Kenneth Gordon, Ian Beveridge, Gavin Ralston, Brian Kean, Peter Simpson
2nd top left to right: Mark ??, Alastair Gibson, Frank Surgenour, Jim McConnachie, Tommy Wyper, Robert Millar, Jimmy Jones, Neil Carlton
3rd row l-r: Alan Wark, Gwen Duckham, Yvonne Gibson, Glynis Martin, Linda Young, Janette Robb, Janie Cairney, David McCrindle
Front row l-r: Linda McCall, Kirsty Lamont, Elizabeth Wilson, Marion Mitchell, Eleanor Wright, Barbara Armstrong, Fiona Munro, Elaine Brown, Susan McKinna
Thanks again to Janie Reas for this picture above – possibly 1963/4. The teacher on the left is Mrs Nelson and the other is Miss / Mrs Cowan.
Back row left to right: Alastair Gibson, Jimmy Jones, Neil Carlton, Mark Brown?, Tommy Wyper, David McCrindle, Robert Millar, Kenneth Gordon, Gary Javes.
Middle row left to right: Frank Surgenour, Jim McConnachie, Gavin Ralston, Yvonne Gibson, Sandra Green, Brian Kean, James Morrison, Peter Simpson, Alan Wark
Front row left to right: Marion Mitchell, ?? McWhirter, Janey Cairney, Elaine Brown, Linda McCall, Fiona Munro, Eleanor Wright, Elizabeth Wilson, Barbara Armstrong, Linda Young, Susan McKinna, Glynis Martin, Kirsty Lamont
Thanks go to Harry Gordon for allowing us to use this picture. He knows it’s from the 1960s and that the teacher is Mr Smith who left Grammar in December 1963 to be Depute Head Teacher at Drongan Primary.
We can now update this photograph thanks to Heather Swinson (nee Heavenor). Thank you, Heather!
Left to right:
Back row: ?, Harry Gordon, ?, Elliot Gray, Bill Campbell, ?, ?
Middle row: Mr Smith, ?, Derek Adnitt, Forbes Watson, Ian Faulds, David Watt
Front row: Heather Heavenor, Jill Johnstone, Janice Prosser, Anne Wallace, ?, Wilma Thomson
Missing: Jan Ferguson, Margaret Roxburgh
Thank you so much to Dianne Fleming who sent us this lovely picture from Primary 2 in Grammar School in 1966. She has been able to supply most of the names too:
Top left to right:
David Cunningham, Lesley Forwell, Iain Thomson, Alan Brodie, Kenneth Wilson, Philip Hall
Iain Morrison, Robin ?, Alec Daley, Hugh Cummings, Graeme Ritchie, John Cairney, Colin ?, Tommy Montgomery
Lucille ?, Ray Nicholson, Nancy Campbell
Dianne Peace, Gillian ?, Lorna McIntyre, Fiona Stevenson, Alison Porter, Hilary ?, Claire McFadzean, Karen McKinna
The teacher on the left is Mrs Nelson who was the P2 teacher. Top right is Mrs Thomson who was the music specialist and the lady front right was the Head Teacher at this time – Miss/Mrs Smith.
