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Gilbert Inglefield reaches 40
School opened in 1968
Gilbert Inglefield Middle School celebrated its 40th birthday this week.
To celebrate the milestone, children in years' five to eight spent Tuesday collecting data from across the decades and then presented it to the whole school in an assembly. Topics ranged from man landing on the moon to the making of the musical Fame and right up to date with global warming and poignantly, memories of deputy head of 21 years Terry Edwards, who died of a heart attack last year.
Reporter Sarah Holmes went along to help six children from Scott house compile a newspaper of events that happened in Leighton between 1988 and 1998. She also took along the archive copy of the October 22, 1968 edition of the LBO which drew gasps from staff and children.
The school in Vandyke Road, Leighton, was opened on October 19, 1968, by Sir Gilbert Inglefield, the Lord Mayor of London, who lived in Eggington.
The LBO covered the event and Sir Gilbert was reported as saying he was extremely flattered to have the school named after him. The first headteacher was Eric Samuel, who has just passed away.
The community-friendly LBO presented head teacher Mr David Neeves with two photographs taken by our photographer of Sir Gilbert Inglefield and Mr Samuel officially declaring the school open and signing the visitors' book. The negatives had been buried deep in our archives and were never published.
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Wednesday 08 February 2012
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