Morley Memorial School Cambridge

Morley Memorial School, Cambridge

Notes on the history of Morley Memorial School

For information about the history of this school follow this link:

http://www.morley.cambs.sch.uk/our-school/about-morley-memorial-primary-school/

Information about its founder Samuel Morley can be found here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Morley_(MP)

Former pupils include:

Lance Corporal Laurence Austin awarded DCM 1915

Syd Barrett

Roger Waters

Former members of staff include:

Michael Bowyer (aviation historian)

To see a document containing excerpts from the press about the history of the school follow this link:

MorleySchoolTimeLine20160715

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1900 Methodist services were held at the school

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Michael Bowyer in Air Raid! pub. 1986 notes that during the raid of May 9th 1941 several incendiary bombs landed in the school playground.

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Tony Whitmore, in 2016, reminisced about his school days at Morley at the end of the 1940s and his move to Coleridge:

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Peter West attended Morley during WWII. In 2016 he reminisced about his time here and in particular the routines they had in the event of air raid alerts.

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Joan Robertson was at Morley in the 1930s. In 2016 she recalled her memories of those days:

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Pamela Knights also attended Morley in the 1930s and remembers the air raid shelter (2016):

Her own children went to Morley and she remembers the differences between their experience and hers: