Goonhavern School Class – Circa 1935 – Miss Osborne’s Class
Back Row: Miss May Osborne (Teacher), William Menhenott, Cecil Parnell, Stanley Pascoe, Ronald Bray, Bert Perry, Frank Trebilcock, Henry Penna, Ernie Donovan.
Middle Row: George Thomas, Wilfred Cocking, Hazel Flamank, Dorothy Glanville, Eileen Buddell, Joan White, Doris Retallick, Norman Flamank.
Front Row: Gerald Hocking, Pauline Pearce, Nellie Pearson, Edna Lavin, Muriel Pearson, Loveday Pryor.
Thank you for the photos.
I am interested in the boy second from top right. Can this possibly be the dynamic Mr Penna who (in his 30s?) came to teach at Ivybridge Primary School in about 1961?
We didn’t know out teachers’ forenames in those days, and there was no reason for them to have been used in out presence. But I have a recollection that he was ‘Henry’. Active, sporty, a hard task-master and fiercely proud of his Cornish heritage. I remember him speaking of the granitic upland of Goss Moor being somewhere near his home.
He was once of the most interesting, enthusiastic and motivating teachers that I have known, and one who made a lasting impression on me, to the extent that I have subsequently tried (but without success) to discover what became of him. I would love to know if this boy from Goonhavern was the hard-working and influential schoolmaster of my childhood.
Paul Trenchard
Autun, France.