I recently began listing three boxes of archives, a collection of material dubbed ‘miscellaneous schools’ but which is actually various documentation collected by two generations of a family of school teachers. Amongst this was a small bundle of letters, written by ex-pupils of Higher Brinksway Council School whilst they were serving in the army during World War I, to their old headmaster Mr Joseph Goodison.
Of course with the World War I centenary taking place later this year, this was a prime time to find these letters, and they will hopefully be used as part of a display about the war in Stockport. The letters send best wishes to the headmaster and his family, offering snippets of information about their lives in the army, and one even has written a poem.
The boys who wrote letters to Mr Goodison whilst on service are:
- Charles Stanley Bradbury
- Joseph T. Sidebottom
- George Woodford
- James Duxbury
- William Prophet
- John Goudy
- Samuel R. Dickinson
- Harold Wild
- Herbert Williams
- Walter S. Newton
For now I am trying to find out some more about these boys, where they came from and what happened to them.
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