Mystery school revealed

A READER has spotted his father in our unidentified class of school children (First class but for which school?) which was published in Memory Lane on October 21, 2011.

Keith Clark owns a copy of the same photo and his father William Leslie Clark appears in the second row, third from left. Willliam Clark was born in 1908 and went to the school which was at Clifton Fields, now part of Shefford.

He then went on to Robert Bloomfield School as he lived on the Shefford side of Clifton Fields.

The Clifton Field School no longer exists which is possibly why there is so little information about it.

As William would have been around ten years old when the picture was taken, this would date it to around 1918, much earlier than originally thought.

William was also in Shefford Scouts. He had a long life, dying in 2009 at the grand old age of 101.

Thanks go to Keith for enlightening us on the time and place of this photo.

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