Goonhavern School Class – Circa 1907 – 1910 – Mr Tresidder’s Class
Back Row: Maggie Watts nee Veal, Unknown, Mary Ann Martin nee Godfrey, Mabel House nee Rowland, Beatrice May Morgan nee Davis, Olive Piper nee Penna, Amy May nee Penna.
Middle Row: Ivy Mitchell nee Penna, Unknown, Gwendoline May Trebilcock, Martha May Salmon nee Tippett, Emma Louisa Glanville, Florence Watson, Unknown, Mrs Jane Grigg, Ida Westlake nee Bown.
Front Row: ? Woodward, Florrie Trevethan nee Kendall, May Osborne, Rhoda Alberta Kessell nee Preston, Nellie Pascoe nee Rowland, Mr William Tresidder (Headmaster), Unknown, Millie Nicholls nee Tremain, Eveline Harry nee Osborne, ? Woodward, Alice Murray nee Sara, Mildred Hooper nee Penna, Florence Willey nee Glanville.
May Osborne, who I believe was Subsequently became a teacher at the same school. We met in that hot summer of 1976 when she took us in as a young couple visiting my Grandpa’s final home in Perranporth. She was an amazing lady and we fetched the shopping for her. She strangely asked me what my favourite poem was and I said “The Listeners” after sensibly asking me to recite it she showed me a wall full of certificates in her parlour for reciting that very poem!
Yes you are correct Lindsey, she did go to Goonhavern as a child, and later was a teacher at the school. She taught music also. I remember her as a lad, she had retired by then but lived in a bungalow of Halt Road Goonhavern. Always a pleasant lady.
Martha May Salmon, nee Tippett is my grandmother on my mothers side
Martha May Tippett married William John Salmon, and had 7 children. Kathleen, Olive Pamela (my mum), Thelma, Lenna, John, and Jean. The youngest would have been Arthur, who died soon after birth.
Bet it was a surprise to see this photo with her in it David.
Emma Glanville in the middle row was a great aunt of mine who I remember living in a wooden bungalow somewhere around the institute in the late 1970s. She lived until 1979. And Florence Glanville (Willey) I always used to call her Auntie Florrie. When I knew her, she lived in the flats opposite the shoppers car park in Truro. She died aged 88 in 1982 and Olive Penna (Piper) used to say 50 years before she died, “I was some bad in the night. I thought I was going to die!”. That finally happened in 1994 just short of her 100th birthday. By this time, she’d outlived her own daughter Rose Piper as well.