Press reader Deborah Jane Dolman certainly has a good memory. She posted this photo of Tang Hall primary school in 1961 with teacher Mrs Billingham. Tang Hall Primary School 1961 - posted by Deborah Jane Dolman Deborah shared it in The Press s online nostalgia Facebook group, Why We Love York - Memories (click here to join). Here are the names she remembers: Myself (Deborah Morley, now Dolman), 3rd row from top, 4th from left. Others I remember; Timothy Perry (back row, 4th from left), Robert Stagnell (back row, 8th from left), Yvonne Anderson (2nd row from top, 6th from left), Judith Cade (next), in a row; Josephine Garrett, myself, Elizabeth Kendall.
Catherine Precious, the previous head A YORK school is on the lookout for a new head. An advert has gone out for a new head at Hempland Primary Academy in Heworth after the previous boss stepped down a year ago. As The Press reported back in April last year Catherine Precious, who took over the leadership post at Hempland in September 2019, decided to leave for personal reasons . Lee Haynes, head teacher of Acomb Primary School, has since been acting as the interim executive head for both Hempland and Acomb. Mrs Precious moved to Hempland in Heworth from Tang Hall Primary School where she had been head teacher since September 2013.
I AM still alive! - that s the message Richard Skilbeck wants to share with the people of York. Richard, also known as Dick to friends, contacted The Press to ask us to let former school friends and sports mates know he was very much still alive - and living in the North East. The unusual request came after a death notice appeared for his namesake in The Press - and people started giving their condolences to his brother Stephen, who still lives in York. Richard, now aged 79, said: Stephen was out and about and two or three times he bumped into people who said: I was sorry to hear about Richard .