Rushden Research Group: Newton Rd Trip 1951

Booklet kindly loaned by Bill Sinfield

Newton Road School Trip 1951

Newton Road County School, Rushden

School Visit to The Festival of Britain 16^th July, 1951.


Mr Sherwood, Mrs Sherwood & Mrs Edge on the "Queen Boadicea" enjoying a river trip.	The boys to left of driver are (l-r) ?, John Collins, Eddy Ball & Mick Miller, and to his right Jill Cumberpatch, Jeff Cartwright, Keith Toby, Charlie Browning and John Richardson.

Programme and General Information

Foreword

This booklet has been prepared so that you will know something beforehand about our visit to the Festival of Britain Exhibition.

I therefore want you to study it carefully and make yourself acquainted with all it contains. Do not destroy it on your return but keep it as a souvenir.

I sincerely trust that our trip to the Exhibition will be a ‘red letter day’ in your school life and I do hope that nothing will occur that will mar our day's pleasure.

May the weather be kind to us, so that we may all have a very enjoyable day's outing.

Remember you are a scholar of Newton Road School and please do not do anything that will let your school down.

W A E Sherwood (Headmaster)

Programme

7.20 - Assemble at School.

7.30 - Buses will leave for London.

10.3O - Arrive Regents Park and leave by Underground for Waterloo (Festival Station)

10.45- 1.0 - Tour round Festival of Britain.

1.0p.m. Lunch - meet at Skylon. All parties will then join, and have their packed lunches in a Festival Restaurant. Drink may be bought here.

1.30 - 2.30 - Further tour of Festival.

2.30 All parties will meet at Rodney Pier in readiness for trip on motor launch.

2.40 - Leave Rodney Pier for trip by launch to Greenwich and back to Westminster Bridge.

4.30 Tea on the Embankment.

5.30 - Sightseeing of London Walk along Whitehall to Trafalgar Square, and thence up the Mall to Buckingham Palace. Walk down Buckingham Palace Road to pick up buses at Semley Place (Near Victoria Bus Station)

6.30 - Buses leave for home.

The following arrangements have been made for bus parties
Bus 1 All Senior Class 3 (20) All Senior Class 2 Boys (except David Newell to Bus 3) Mr Bates Mr Birch Miss Baker	Bus 2 All Senior Class 1 except the following Marian Clark Christine Chambers Keith Clayton Barry Keech Michael Safford - to bus 3 Miss Ruff Mr Cleaver Mr Davis	Bus 3 All Junior Class 1 plus those stated Mrs Edge Mr & Mrs Sherwood

Passenger List (Groups)
Group 1 Mr. G. J. Bates Janet Minney Astrid Page Wendy Brittain Marian Knighton Jean Sturgeon Ann Roberts David Childs Graham Webb Peter Giles David Ballard John Milburn Derek Law	Group 2 - Mr. H. A. Birch Marjorie Bradshaw Jillian Underwood Marian Brawn Jillian Truett Ann Gell Wendy Hutchings Graham Pye Charles Browning Victor Webb John Warner Don Sanders Alan Dunmore	Group 3 Mr Sherwood Beryl Clark Beryl Culpin Sonia Hyde Norma Joyce Pamela Rawlings Mavis Ward John Beal Geoffrey Cartwright Keith Frankham Barry Kinnear Bill Sinfield David West David Newell	Group 4 Miss Baker Christine Chambers Marion Clarke Valerie Denton Dawn Liggins Pamela Room Maureen Seward Sylvia Warren John Buckley Keith Clayton Barry Keech John W Richardson Michael Safford
Group 5 Miss Ruff Diana Bayes Amy Brawn June Cumberpatch Carol Iliffe Gwyneth Lord Gillian Walding David Helsdown John Martin Alan Peck John Richardson David Twelftree Tony Hulatt	Group 6 Mrs Edge Dorothy Harley Lois Minney Judith Nunley Maureen Pashler Eileen Storey Roger Allen John Collins Robert Higham Terence Parker Rodney Mantle Ivor Vincent Brian Wilshire	Group 7 Mr. Davis Janet Arnold Marjorie Butler Sylvia Mead Barbara Ingham Judy Smith Richard Denton Robert Garley Gordon Room Graham Smith Keith Toby Brian Toby	Group 8 Mr. Cleaver Pat Bird Kathleen Haley Janet Rawlings Janet Perkins Pat Tweddle Ann Watson Edward Ball Allan Edwards Alan Cooper Michael Miller Peter Myers John Warren

General Information The Journey up to London This is quite an interesting journey by road. Look out for the following on the way, and find out what you can about them before the day. Bedford Statues to John Bunyan and John Howard. Cardington Aerodrome Look out for the airship hangars. Maybe you will see the new Bournemouth. Luton At the foot of the CHILTERN HILLS See if you tell what kind of rock they are made of. Here at Luton Vauxhall Cars and straw-hats are made. St Albans Look out here for the beautiful Cathedral and the Verulanium. Regents Park - You probably know it better as the Zoo. This is where we disembark from our buses in London.	The River Trip This will be a most interesting journey down the Thames from the Festival Piers to Greenwich. We shall pass under the following London bridges: Waterloo (new white one) Blackfriars Southwark London Bridge Tower Bridge (last bridge over the Thames) Look out for the following important buildings, monuments, ships etc.-: Somerset House Cleopatra's Needle The Discovery H.M.S. President Billingsgate St. Paul’s The Monument The Tower - Traitors' Gate London Docks The Pool of London Greenwich Observatory Royal Naval College	Sightseeing after Tea During our walk after tea we shall be passing some most important buildings etc. Look out for the following:- Houses of Parliament Westminster Hall Scotland Yard Westminster Abbey Cenotaph Downing Street Horse Guards Trafalgar Square Nelson’s Column National Gallery Admiralty Buildings Duke of York's Statue Marlborough House Buckingham Palace Westminster Cathedral
General Instruction for the day 1. Go to bed early the night before. Remember you will have a long day ahead of you, 2. Bring a mac with you and if it does not rain your camera might be handy to have with you, 3. Bring a packed lunch with you. Packed tea will be provided. 4. YOU MUST KEEP WITH YOUR PARTY AT THE FESTIVAL. If you should be separated from your party before lunch, be at the SKYLON at 1 o'clock, if after lunch be at RODNEY PIER at 2.30. 5. If you are lost in London during the sightseeing tour do not be afraid. Go to a policeman and ask him to show you the way to SEMLEY PLACE (see your map - it is near Victoria Bus Station.) You must be there by 6.30. when the buses leave for home. 6. BEHAVE WELL AT ALL TIMES and be proud that you have not let your School down.

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