Stoke School Did You Know

Did You Know

Stoke School, Nelson, New Zealand Ph 03-5477582

We read the Centennial Books of Stoke School published in 1945, 1970 & 1995.

	The first Nelson Schools Societies exams were held in 1846 and pupils came in carts and walked from Nelson, Waimea Village, Spring Grove and Wakefield.
	In 1855 the average attendance of children was 27, mostly under 10 years.
	By 1868 57 pupils were attending the Stoke School.
	The old school rolls were lost but it is recorded that the early families were: Jellyman, Cresswell, Norgate, Ching, Parker, Martin, Best, Harley and Rowbotham.
	Sport - it was noted that no Nelson Hockey Representative Team was complete without a good sprinkling of Stoke Players.
	Mr Naylor was the first to organise at Stoke, a Fife Drum and String band, which in its day was a note institution, and led the schools in the Queen Victoria's Jubilee.

Hockey 1995 Centennial Booklet

Stoke Hockey Six a Side Champions from the 1995 Centennial Booklet

B. Mills, K. Highet, T. Gribble, T. Barton, K. Norgate & V. Monopoli

Roll of Honour - the Great War WW1

A.E. Cresswell L.G. Ching S.G. Davis E.G. Giblin H.B. Jellyman L.F. Smith W.S. Bovey A.B. Doige

World War II, 50 ex-pupils served in the forces

Val Allport DFC, P. Vercoe A. Corby W. Weston B. O'Connor DFC, R. Harrison DFC.

The Centennial Booklet 1970 tells us that the two school bells at the school had quite a history. An old bell hanging outside the school fell to pieces around the 1950's and a replacement from the old Wai-iti School was procured. From Centennial funds a wrought iron frame was erected to hold the bell. The second bell was originally from the Anchor Company's ship S.S. Titoki, which traded between the West Coast and Nelson 1923-1957.

19th September 2003 Alistair Cotterill presents Stoke School with 2 historical badges

Nelson Centennial 1842-1942

Stoke School Centennial 1845-1945

Lost your school friends? - 25 old friends from Stoke School are trying to contact their school mates...

Did you know that 543 ex pupils have registered with Old Friends NZ - Stoke School by July 2010 many list their memories of their time at Stoke School and 55 school photos have be uploaded to the site 1940 to 1992. You can email the publisher of photos and inform them who is in the photo. Check out the lost & found part of this web and email old friends.

We welcome ex pupils to visit Stoke School and sign the visitors book.

If you are seeking early settlers that attended Stoke School check this out on Nelson City Council Website and NZ Papers Past now have a new search facility for the Nelson Examiner 1842-1872.

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updated: February 06, 2010