Treasured memories of Dr Morgan's School and Chilton Trinity Choir (From Bridgwater Mercury)

Treasured memories of Dr Morgan's School and Chilton Trinity Choir

2:13pm Friday 12th September 2008 in Your Say By Rory McKeown

NOSTALGIC Mercury readers have been busy rummaging around for old photographs and postcards of Bridgwater this week.

Betty Hendy has brought in fascinating photographs of her siblings dating back to the early 1900s. Betty has contributed a picture of the Chilton Trinity choir dating from around 1912. The photo features her sister Ethel once more on the far left and also her brother Arthur Letherby second from the right on the back row.

The final photo Betty shared with us was a team shot of the Chilton Trinity brickyard rugby team from the early 1930s with her brother, Bert Letherby, third from the left in the third row.

The Mercury has also received a selection of old postcards.

One of the cards provides an interesting snapshot of Fore Street from the town bridge in the 1930s. Readers can see the fashion style is very different, with men suited and booted, while The Punch Bowl pub and Fore Street Clothing are situated at each corner.

The final postcard brought into us is a wonderful sepia-toned photo of staff and pupils at Dr Morgan's School in 1908. The boys are each wearing cloth caps and clean-cut uniforms and the teachers seem overpowering in their long coats.