Charney Hall School, Grange-over-Sands

The real James Harold Innes Hopkins! Mr Hopkins, or ‘ Hoppy ’ as we used to called him, appeared to us newbies to be a relic of a bygone Victorian age as we attended the 1st Form at Charney Hall, in the Autumn Term of 1953. The classroom door was located just on the right, at the entrance to the small courtyard, adjacent to the Master’s Common Room. He taught us, more kept watch over us, as we copied identical lines of a single sentence that he had written in chalk on the blackboard in the copperplate style. A sample of Copperplate script He sat, with pale, gaunt face which featured an aquiline nose, hollow eye sockets punctured with pale blue grey eyes, and seldom moved for the entire lesson. His slim suited frame and boney blue veined hands remained poised over the master’s desk, which was, if I remember correctly, located on a raised wooden dias alongside the blackboard, at the front of the class. Little was uttered, for no words were required, as we knew by his demeanour that he w

  Here are the original England Census 1891, 1901 and 1911 together with the England and Wales 1939 Register. Please see the earlier post ‘Charney Hall School Lists’ for transcriptions of the above. England Census 1891 England Census 1901 England Census 1911     (For some reason this Census is very restricted) England and Wales Register 1939