Hullbridge School Modern Days.
1992
April. The school had a 90th birthday celebration party and it was attended by some of its old staff and children I particular as documented in the Evening Echo April 10 1992 page 11. Staff at Hullbridge school pushed the boat out to welcome back familiar faces from the past for its 90th birthday celebrations.
Les Holden's unusual school journeys involved being rowed across the River Crouch from South Woodham Ferrers to Hullbridge Primary School.
Although bad weather scuppered plans for a special reconstruction to mark the old boy's return, there was plenty of nostalgia in a party atmosphere at the Ferry Road infants school.
Ida Street taught at the old school from 1923 to 1954 and took center stage to cut a special anniversary cake. Books, photos and other memorabilia kept the current crop of youngsters fascinated in the Back in Time experiance .
