New photograph added today of Senior Pupils at Wimpole Park School in 1954. Your help in naming pupils would be appreciated.

Site Update: March 2019
The Wimpole Past site is slowly being moved to a secure SSL domain:
https://www.wimpolepast.org
The old .co.uk and new .org sites will be run in parallel for the time being although you will probably find yourself switching between the two sites. If I manage the page links properly, the transition should be seamless. Eventually, the whole site will be transferred across to the .org domain.

The Parish Church Churchyard Register page has been rebuilt and updated from 2004 to September 2018. This revised page includes additional genealogical information and links to over 125 images of known Wimpole graves and memorials. A new page at Churchyard Plans shows David Owen’s plans of both the Churchyard and Memorial Garden, together with a key to the name and location of known burials and interments. Two further Church pages have also been updated. The Yorke Family Vault has details of the vault under the Chicheley Chapel including a 1985 photograph and a transcription of the nine coffin plates. The revised Wimpole Rectors page lists the known Rectors of St Andrew’s from 1291 to 1955 together with biographical information [including that of the Rector ejected and sequestered for “neglecting his Cure and putting in one Mr Harpington, a man very negligent in the ministerial office, and much given to play of cards of a night”.)

New Wimpole School page for 1915 added today. Six names: Ethel Skinner, Gladys Franklin, Eric Charter, Cyril Bullen, Ada Skinner and Ernest Bullen. The schoolmistress pictured is Mrs Newell.

I am making contact regarding the photograph 'Wimpole Park Junior Pupils - Intake c1950'. I note the image was donated by John Pearce and the names are as remembered by John Pearce and Denis Tokley.

My name is John Sellers (DoB 27/03/1942).The group was at Arrington School, and I am the ‘boy’ in the photo standing in front of Miss Whitmore and beside Stanley Tokley. I was recovering from a head injury at the time, which was the reason for the pudding basin haircut! I believe the year was 1949. Sadly, my mother died of cancer in May that year. My father was a lecturer at the Emergency Teachers Training College, Wimpole Park. When the college closed in 1950 my family re-located to Cambridge where I went to Brunswick School and then The Perse School. I left school in 1960 having gained a commission into the Royal Navy and was selected for aircrew training. For the next 32 years I served in the Fleet Air Arm flying various types of helicopter and the Jetstream aircraft. Towards the end of my Service I was appointed MBE for services to Naval Aviation. It was all great fun, but when I reached my ‘sell by date’ (50th birthday) in 1992, and by which time I was a Lieutenant Commander, I had to retire. My first civilian job was Bursar at Douai School; an Independent School attached to a Benedictine Monastery situated in Berkshire. For the next 5 years my boss was a monk! In January 1998 I moved on, to work for Guide Dogs for the Blind Association as the Administration Manager at the Guide Dog Training Centre in Wokingham. In 2002 I moved on again to become Property Manager for James Cowper Kreston Accountants, responsible for the firms six offices located around the southern counties. I retired in 2012, just after my 70th birthday.
I am married to Felicity, we live in a village close to Newbury, and have two adult children – Christopher and Juliet.

I was fascinated to find so much about the personal stories and history relating to Wimpole Park, and thank all who have contributed to such an interesting site

I have today added a new image page of Cundall's Employees photographed in 1915. The page includes the surprising life story of 'the girl in the picture'.