J. Stanley Carr was the Headmaster when I came for my interview during the spring term of 1950. It must have been a glorious day,for he and my mother and I walked around 'the lake' with his red setter dog dashing in and out of the bushes. In the course of this walk JSC told us that 'by the Grace of God and a quarter of a mile he was a Yorkshire man.' It always stuck in my memory.
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Memory from: Gill Jackson (1950-55)
Location: Bromborough,Wirral
Stanley Carr was my Headmaster from 1944-52. I remember my introductory
interview in his study (there were to be many more less amiable
in the next eight years.)
Memories of him, and of Edith Carr, are many but
probably the first – as a member of Junior, Junior School – are
of being taken down from “C” Dorm to Headmaster’s House during air
raids – the War was very much on at that time – and of hot chocolate
before going back to bed. Stanley Carr did not teach us Junior,
Juniors but we came to know him as a wonderful story teller and
raconteur: Saturday evening slide shows, Sunday Evening Meeting
and many more. To listen to him, what ever the subject, was to be
totally absorbed and – thankfully, to retain much of what he told
me.
Stanley Carr had an incredible grasp of a wide range of subjects:
Geography was his speciality, if I remember correctly, but he was
a countryman, mountaineer, naturalist, expert fisherman and much
more.
Edith Carr – in the Records she is known as “Mistress to the Family.”
Mother of the School Family would have been more descriptive. So
very kind and gentle, so concerned when we were ill in the San’
– carefully informing parents of when there was a matter for concern.
Collectively, my recollection of both Stanley and Edith Carr of
one of affection and gratitude for that which I learnt from them
which has stood me in good stead ever since
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Memory from: Dick Dennis
(1944-52)
Location: Isle of Man
