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Photograph of the old Bradford Public School on Queen and Rebecca Streets

Photograph of the old Bradford High School on Queen Street

The article accompanying this photograph gives a quick history of Bemrose Co. General Store, owned by the Bemrose brothers John and James. Their father, John, was a contractor and was well known in the town, a reputation which was passed down to the brothers. This store in the photograph was run by James Bemrose alone after his return to Bradford in 1901 in the former store of J.S. Boddy, and was in the same block as the Edmanson businesses on Holland Street (near 71 Holland St. East).
James Bemrose was a member of the Masonic Order. This photograph was taken because he was part of Bradford's Model School Board, along with other board members.

Photograph of Pinkerton Schoolhouse students. Exact date of photograph unknown.

Photograph students in Form I standing on the steps outside of Bradford High School on November 5, 1919.

Teachers (L-R): Mr. Charles W. Harrison, Miss E. Henry, Miss Jessie Curry

First Row (L-R): Cedric Hipwell, Norman Plant, Lyland Sturgeon, Emmerson Spence, Russel Bowles, Max Morris

Second Row (L-R): Vivian Bowles, Alberta Stoddart, Elizabeth Evans, Laura Kneeshaw, Pearl Metcalfe, Kathleen MacLean

Third Row (L-R): Kathleen Collings, Ruby Metcalfe, Dorothy Bell, Joyce Miller, Constance Nolan

Fourth Row (L-R): Kenneth Cummings, Charlie Brown, Howard Bowser (also written as Bowsher), Jim Webb

An old time postcard featuring Bradford Public School. This photo is from the Bradford Womens Institute Scrapbooks.

S.S. #3 - West Gwillimbury School
Back Row: Helen West, Marjorie Sutherland, Margaret Bateman, Doris Armstrong, Helen Kingsley, Ruth Westlake, Faris Kneeshaw, Roy Jeffery, Jack Armstrong.
Third Row: Helen Gold, ?, Evelyn West, ?, Elsie Jeffery
Second Row: Leonard Jeffery, Grenville Hudson, Donald Wilson, Clarence Jessop, Emery Kingsley, Tom Bateman, Harold West.
Front Row: ?, Norman (Rusty) Hudson, Herbert West.

S.S. #11, Pinkerton School
This school was named after surveyor and settler Matthew Pinkerton. He built the log schoolhouse in 1840 on the NE corner of his lot (Con. 10, lot 6). A new, brick school was built in 1873 kitty-corner to the old one by Thomas Sleight, and was the first of its kind in the area. By 1908, a better brick school was built with two entrances and a bell tower, the one seen in the photograph. The school was in use at least until the late 1950s.

S.S. #7 School

S.S. #2, typical log school of the time.