My name is Barry Walker and I live in New Zealand. My late father, Harry Walker, was a teacher at Mayfield in the years just prior to the Second World War and so my brother and I were delighted to find him in the ‘1937 Panorama’ photo. Continue reading →
Howard Barnes
Thanks Tony, yes I would like to join Mayfield Memories. I was with my brother, David, the other day and he was telling me about the website. We looked it up and discovered some good stuff. Well done; it’s a great idea and I would like to be part of it. I was embarrassed by some of the photos of myself as Head Boy and the references to my time at Mayfield. I suppose they were pioneering days really. Dear Mr. Hicks, the Headmaster at the time, I have such respect or him. He was a visionary and ahead of his time setting up the first sixth form at Mayfield. It was a huge sixth form consisting of just me, but what a privilege; a one to one teaching ratio. To return to Mayfield as a teacher after university was a great joy. Well, thanks again and I would like to keep in touch. I would also like to make written contributions from time to time. Let me know if there is anything I can do to help.
Iain Palot
I ran the first year football team with Paul Ebsworth, as captain, Gary Charters, Redvers Dudman, Howard Weeks… good grief I have the photo but cannot remember the names. I taught Geography from 1968 to 1972. I ran a field trip to Streatley Youth Hostel and introduced the boys to the delights of no street lighting and long hikes across the chalk hills. Mickey Schafer had to go off swimming every evening to ensure his place in the British team, but I think he fell off his, or a mates scooter, broke his leg and never went to the Olympics. Where is Mickey now? Jim Tildesley taught History and came with me on a couple of fieldtrips with the 4th year Geographers to Streatley. He went on to the Passmore Edwards Museum in Stratford and ultimately to the Scottish Maritime Museum in Ayr. I remember introducing basketball along with Neil Ashmore and Jim Tildesley. One of our star players was Wilbert Greaves who gained fame as a UK high hurdler in the 1980s.
John Westwood
I was on the Mayfield Secondary School staff for two years before it became Mayfield High School, where I am still teaching. I am one of only two teachers from the old Mayfield Secondary School still on the staff, the other being Phil Huxford.
Photo courtesy of Ilford Recorder
Ken Weetch
When I first started in Mayfield, it was in the September of 1960. It was my second teaching post the first having been in the Borough of Waltham Forest. My first class contained Roger Hawke, John Hornby, Eric Dilger and others. They were a good class and worked hard for me. I hope that they have subsequently done well in life. Mayfield was a good school, with strict discipline and high standards of behaviour. Continue reading →
Linda Johns
It is lovely to read all the stories from Mayfield. I have very happy memories of both Mayfield Secondary Boys and Mayfield High School. I joined Mayfield Boys as a French teacher in January 1976. The following year I had a fourth form group with Phil Woods and Ronald Tomlinson. When the school went comprehensive, in September 1977, I was made Head of MFL and taught in the Language Lab in the upper school. I was Miss Johns then, but became Ms. Taylor in 1981. I have taught some amazing people at Mayfield. I was extremely strict except when we took trips to France, especially the exchange visits. I would love to hear from anyone I taught or worked with. I left Mayfield High School in 1982 when Derek Jones was Headmaster.
Mr E. Horne by Andrew Clarke
Mr. Horne our science teacher who left Mayfield School in 1961
The photo shows him after 3A (our class) presented him with a leaving present of 120 Wills Woodbine cigarettes that he used to smoke. In the foreground right to left is Mike Ellis, Dennis Filler , Tony “something” and an unidentified person.
Mr. C. F. W. Hicks B.Sc. R.I.P.
At the outbreak of war, in 1939, Mr. Hicks was a House Master at Beal Modern teaching mathematics. The following information, provided by the Local Studies Department at the London Borough of Redbridge, describes his departure from Beal in 1942.
Mr. Reeves
Photo by harold Cutting
Stan Frankland R.I.P.
Tributes to Manager of 1952 Boys Champions
From the Ilford Recorder Thursday 30th March 2006
A former teacher who led a boys’ football team to victory in a national cup competition has died aged 84, writes Marc Walker.
Stan Frankland was a teacher at Mayfield County Secondary School for Boys, Goodmayes Lane, and will be remembered for leading the Ilford Schools Football Team to glory as champions of England, in the under 15 team’s famous 1951/52 season. Stan, who died last week, had battled Alzheimer’s for the last five years. Under his management and in one season, the boys became Essex Champions by winning the Corinthian Shield Trophy, London Champions after they triumphed in the Robert Johnson Cup and National Champions by winning the English Schools Shield. A crowd close to 16,000 saw the team play in the national final in Wales against Swansea Boys, with 1,000 people travelling from Ilford to cheer them on. Continue reading →