Tuesday, 2 October 2018

Westfield Junior School pupils and staff mentions in the News and Sports Mail, July-August 1977

During July-August 1977, there was little news about Westfield Junior School, its pupils and staff.
Unlike some schools elsewhere in Portsmouth, no reports of end of school year celebrations or staff changes were published in the paper.

As it covers July-August 1977, I should have published this part at the end.
The way that the British Library bound the newspapers, as each volume contains six weeks' issues, I decided to tackle the July-September 1977 volumes first:
1 July-14 August, and, 15 August-30 September 1977.
The 15 August-30 September bound volume was quickly returned to storage, because I only needed to examine the 15-31 August issues.
I can only have five bound volumes out under my name at any one time, so dealing with mid-late August issues first meant that I was in a better position when requesting further bound volumes within my personal limit.

Two newspaper reports about Donna Hillyer's athletics performances:
 
 
The News, Wednesday 20 July 1977.
Donna (D. Hillyer) won the 1500m in a personal best of 4:57.4 for her club, Portsmouth Atalanta, in the Division 1, B Section juniors competition, held at Southampton.
 
 
The News, Tuesday 9 August 1977.
Donna (D. Hillyer) won the 1500m in 5:08.4 in the A string for Portsmouth Atalanta in the Haslett Trophy competition at Crawley.
 
Other mentions:
 
Chipper Club's 12th birthday celebrations for July-August 1977:  Neil Gray, Michael Hardy, Darren Scott
 
 
 
 

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