Last additions - Bill Johnston's Gallery
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Wessex News Board289 viewsAs each of the 27 Changi Bus Co (later, military buses) drew up at the steps to the school, children read my message board updated daily with vital information and frivolous drawings. (Someone else photographed the board and the picture appeared on the back of Tommy Atkins's Children, a history of army children's schools.Jan 14, 2014
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There goes the Duke of Edinburgh!222 viewsThere goes the Duke of Edinburgh! He came to Singapore in 1965 or 1966 and, though he visited the 'rivals' at Alexandra Junior School, his entourage didn't stop as it passed Pasir Panjang. Jan 14, 2014
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swimming gala281 viewsHere, in colour, is an earlier swimming gala held before the Dover Road complex was finished. This is the pool at Gillman Barracks, which actually gave the spectators a better view of everythingJan 14, 2014
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The school swimming team315 viewsThe school swimming team after a success at Dover Road pool.Jan 14, 2014
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The school in the background now is Tanglin Trust235 viewstaken in 2009 by Bill Johnston.
The school in the background now is Tanglin Trust, a very large, now all age, private school.Jan 14, 2014
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223 viewsTaken in 2009 a photo of one of the three storey flats on the Wessex Estate, that were once married quarters for British Servicemen and their families.Jan 14, 2014
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Brigadier Stanley Mullen is seen presenting awards to the Wessex football stars247 viewsBrigadier Stanley Mullen is seen presenting awards to the Wessex football stars in, I believe, 1968, with the Head, Mr Vernon, sorting the trophies. Brigadier Mullen instigated the annual Services Drama Festival and that year my wife and I attended every production, Army, RAF and Naval Base, on the night he gave his adjudicationJan 14, 2014
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recorder group in 1965288 viewsPicture shows some of my top, brilliant recorder group in 1965. Four of the girls in the front row are Susan Hayward, Susan Ridge, Judith Beeston and Jenny Tippett-Iles. The last two have got in touch since I sent in an earlier picture and the three of us met at my home in April, reminiscing and nattering for almost 6½ hours. We ended the meeting by playing one of the recorder tunes they performed at the concert pictured!
Christine Harral has been in touch, and identified herself as being on the front row 3rd from the left.Jan 14, 2014
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In the afternoons the school became a Malay school217 viewsIn the afternoons the school became a Malay school for the children of Malay soldiers in the British army. They used all the classrooms and you can just make out the girls in their ankle-length blue 'cassocks' with long white 'surpilces' over them.Jan 14, 2014
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after assembly240 viewsA nice shot of the main buildings at PPJS with a class returning to its classroom after assemblyJan 14, 2014
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Leslie Rutledge has identified himself as the diver256 viewsLeslie Rutledge has identified himself as the diver in this photo. Leslie said, "The event was actually May/June 1964 and I do believe the last time the gala was held at Gillman barracks as the new Dover road pool had just opened."Jan 14, 2014
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Annual Pasir Panjang Junior School Swimming Gala329 viewsAnnual Pasir Panjang Junior School Swimming Gala, probably 1965. It was held at the pool in Gillman Barracks, where Alexandra Secondary Modern School was situated, until the new sports complex on Dover Road opened.Jan 14, 2014
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