Obviously,
this one isn't of Vyners at all but shows Uxbridge High Street at about
the time Vyners was founded. In 2001, there are plans to bring back the
trolleybuses! This slide has aged badly, and even this version is heavily
retouched. |
Before
the Vyners building was opened, pupils attended schools in Northwood for
the first and part of the second years. In the first year, the girls went
to St Mary's in Wiltshire Lane, Northwood Hills, while the boys went to
St Nicholas, next door. Both are now called Hayden School. |
Another
view of Wiltshire Lane. During the second year, both boys and girls took
over a floor of St Mary's school and we met our new teaching staff for
the first time. |
Pupils
on the way to school along Joel Street. The boys on their bikes wear caps
and the girls wear broad-brimmed hats. All the trees and fields in the
background have now been replaced by housing. |
At
the same time that Vyners was being built, the road by Swakeleys Lake which
had previously been known as the Splash was made into a road bridge, here
under construction. Art master John Spencer is seen on his way to school
on his NSU Quickly moped. |
Another
view of the former Splash, from the Woodstock Drive end. There had previously
been a footbridge over the Pinn, and a ford at the end of Swakeleys Lake
with a raised walkway. |
Warren
Road, outside the school, about 1960. The girls are wearing their summer
uniform; their winter uniform was similar to the green skirts worn by the
girls today. |
Open
Day, probably around 1960. The building is complete, though for the first
few terms many of the classrooms were still being finished. |
Headmaster
Trevor Jaggar with local MP Charles Curran, in the white suit, during the
Open Day. |
Another
view of Warren Road. You can see that the upper end of it was still unmade
at this time, which prevented it becoming a through road as it is today. |
Open
Day, which was opened by TV personality Judith Chalmers in the rather fetching
apricot hat. |
Pupils
would make their way home alongside Swakeleys Lake as they do today, though
at this stage it was still unmade and was open to any traffic that cared
to drive along, right through to the Avenue. |
