Galleries
Hatfield Peverel Gallery
Two Images of School based in Wood Green - Choir and 5th Year
Images supplied by John Steerwood with notes.
Features a Choir and 5th Year photos. John Steerwood mentions Mr Max Penney and James Grout are in the front row and mentions a Wendy, yet to be identified. Subject to separating and improving later.
Three teachers, including Mr Peacock, Mr Penney and Mr Eustance are more positively identified in an enlarged version of this 5th Year photo in this set of galleries under 1944 Young Farmers.
Trinity pupils collecting scrap paper, Maldon Road, Hatfield Peverel, c early 1940s
Reproduced by courtesy of Essex Record Office, (ERO: D/DU 935/24).
Twelfth Night Cast at Hatfield Peverel
Photo scanned from page 166 of the school history compiled by Don Grammer in 1999 - Trinity: A School with a Past
Pea Fields Work with Horse and Cart
At work in the pea fields where the horse has the easiest job
Photo scanned from page 47 of the school history compiled by Don Grammer in 1999 - Trinity: A School with a Past
1943 Pea Pickers Weighing In
Photo scanned from page 45 of the school history compiled by Don Grammer in 1999 - Trinity: A School with a Past
1944 Plum Pickers
Scanned from the school history.
1944 Young Farmers 5th Year
Scanned from page 34 of the school history compiled by Don Grammer in 1999 - Trinity: A School with a Past. This is a larger and clearer copy of the small photo donated by John Steerwood under Two Images in this set of Galleries, and captioned 5th Year.
Long term teachers here are Mr Eustance, third from left as viewed, Mr Peacock on his left, and Mr Penney, third from the right.
Trinity Memorial Gateway under construction, Strutt Memorial Recreation Ground, Hatfield Peverel, 1949
Reproduced by courtesy of Essex Record Office, (ERO: D/DU 935/30).
Description of the Project
The Mounted Plaque Presented by Trinity to Hatfield Peverel
The following piece was supplied by Margaret Freeman, Heritage Warden on the Hatfield Peverel Parish Council.
“In 1939 at the outbreak of the Second World War, Trinity County School was evacuated to Hatfield Peverel, Essex. The young scholars returned to Wood Green in 1943 but the legacy of their years billeted to Hatfield Peverel has endured down through the decades.
In 1949 the archway with gate was commissioned by Trinity County School under the watchful eye of Dr Emrys Jones. In 1999 the past pupils returned to Hatfield Peverel where - to their eternal credit - they unveiled a commemorative plaque on the archway above the gate. The words etched on the plaque tell a heart-warming tale of friendship between the children of Wood Green and Hatfield Peverel in an era of war: it reads…
‘Trinity County School, Wood Green, London was evacuated to Hatfield Peverel for most of the 1939-45 War’.
We received a warm welcome and generous hospitality. This gate was presented as a visible token of our thanks”.
Thank you Margaret. It provides a most interesting piece of our history.
The plaque can be viewed in Hatfield Peverel, near Chelmsford, and 50 yards east of Woodham Drive on Maldon Road, the plaque is above the gate at the end of a short footpath leading to the recreation ground.
Location details provided by David Spurgeon (1955-60).