A former Penryn teacher now living in Helston is hoping her past students will get in touch and share memories.

Enid Johns said she would "love to hear" from anyone she taught during her career and has dug out some old photographs of the classes she taught in the Saracen Place infant school in Penryn during the early 1950s.

Mrs Johns, who would have been known as Miss Kneebone at that time, and later Mrs Busby from her first marriage, was in charge of the younger infants aged five and six, while Miss Phillips taught the older infant children, with both receiving help from teaching assistant Jean Pryor.

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Miss Phillips, Enid Johns (then Kneebone) and teacher helper Jean Pryor in the 1950s

The headteacher at that time was Mrs Friendship, while names of children that Mrs Johns remembers teaching include twins Tommy and Winnie Dunstan, the late John Hodge - who worked for Falmouth’s RL Dale and Son Ford dealership, later Vospers, and subsequently Flora Motors in Helston - Josie Hodge and Keith Evans, who was killed in an accident in West Street during the time she was teaching in Penryn.

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She recently met up with Geoff Davis, now aged 71, after he was featured in the Packet fundraising for CLIC Sargent in memory of two-year-old son Mikey, who died from cancer more than 40 years ago.

After Penryn, Mrs Johns went on to teach in Helston and Trannack before becoming the first teacher appointed to the new Curnow School for children with special needs, where two of the mothers - Mrs Parsons (nee Thomas) and Christine Williams - she had taught as children in Penryn.

Anyone who would like to make contact with Mrs Johns can call her on 01326 572489.

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