On 22nd Jun 2022 2:00pm, G-ORDY said:
I came across this photo of my late father "Mick" Riley holding the ball for the 1934-35 team photo at what I think was called Tile Hill School.
He was born in 1920 so would have been 14 at the time.
Has anyone any other details of names of pupils or staff in the photo?
Gordon Riley
I came across a reference to this photograph in a copy of the
Coventry Evening Telegraph and it had been submitted by Dudley Ward (aged 85 at the time) of Kenilworth, he had worked in the tool room at Massey Ferguson with my father "Mick" Riley. The school was actually
Whoberley School and he could identify several of the people in the photo.
George Claridge (back row, fourth from left), parents had a shoe shop in Elm Tree Avenue - he became Dudley's brother in law.
Dave Cranmore (back row, fourth from right), lived in Tile Hill village.
Bob Richardson (back row, third from right), worked at Massey Ferguson.
John Newall (back row, second from right), lived in Fir Tree Avenue.
Les Greenway (front row, second left), parents had a cooked meat shop in Elm Tree Avenue.
"Mick" Riley - then known as "Bason", holding the ball (my father).
Dennis Fryer (sitting at the right on the ground), lived in Broad Lane.
