Cage Green School 1982

These four photographs were taken at The Cage Green School sports day c1982.

Can anyone spot themselves or their children?

Cage Green Junior School Prefects

Photograph courtesy of Patricia Pease

This has to be a rare photograph of the Cage Green Junior School prefects around the year 1956.
The pupils sitting centrally in the front row are probably the Head Boy and Head Girl, as their badges are shield shaped, and the others have oblong shapes on their uniforms.

The names remembered (but could be wrong!) are
Graham Durrant, James Large, Patricia Pease, Susan Weeks (back row)
Linda Cox? Valerie Ling, Michael Cox, Unknown, Robert Janes, Jaqueline Low (front row)

I love this photograph of these school children in their pristine gymslips and Clarks Sandals. And, there doesn't seem to be a knitted jumper amongst them, although the Head Boy in the front row does have what could be one under his very smart blazer.

If anyone has any comments or memories about this photograph, Cage Green School in the 1950's or knows one of the pupils, (even better was one of them), please contact Tonbridge Daily.

I can't finish without mentioning the wallpaper.  I have it on good authority that it was green!!!

Cage Green School Playground

I have come across an interesting black and white photograph taken at Cage Green School in 1962, featuring a group of girls playing marbles in the playground. It seems they are rolling the marbles down into a drain cover.  Apparantly, it was not about how many marbles could be won in a game, but about collecting the really good ones, the large ones and those with intricate patterns.  These were also the days when break-times were filled with skipping, chase, stamp and football card swopping, jacks, hopscotch and foursquare.

Cage Green School playground 1962

White Cottage can be seen in the distance and beyond the playground. This is before the residential estate was built and the area was surrounded by cornfields.  White Cottage was the home of Mr. Howard, the Headmaster of Hugh Christie School, for a number of years. A greenhouse is visible to the rear of the property which was later used by pupils who had lessons in gardening and farming on the site. Small animals and chickens were kept in this area.

White Cottage in White Cottage Road  2012

The above photograph shows the same view of White Cottage today - 50 years later.  It is the property to the left, but it has undergone some changes making it almost unrecognisable. The house to the right is on the site of greenhouse.

If there are any memories or additional photographs please either use the comment box below or send to tonbridgedaily@gmail.com

Childhood Memory of Tonbridge

This comment came in response to a Tonbridge Daily snippet on the town's tanneries.  It conjures up the magic of a childhood memory for something as simple as a duster collected on a school trip. A real piece of nostalgia!!!!!

'I think there was a Tannery or Abattoire in the Botany, (behind Bon Marche) and also, in or near Vale Road was The Baa Baa Co. (not sure of the spelling!)I visited there with my school class (Cage Green about 1954)They made products from sheep's fleece and wool. We were taught how to card, spin, and weave the wool, and even had an afternoon walking round a field of sheep collecting tufts of wool caught on the barbed wire fence, would Health and Safety allow that today!!! After the visit the company gave each of us a multi-coloured fleece duster on a stick. I thought it was really beautiful and couldn't get home fast enough to give it to my mum, at that time it was a luxury item we couldn't afford, or would even think of buying being totally un-necessary, but it had pride of place in our cleaning cupboard for many years.'