Coleford Secondary Modern School pupils before alighting the train to go to the 1951 Festival of Britain.

1 Gerald Frowen , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 Christine Childs , 6 Dilys Thomas , 7 Audrey Jones , 8 Marcia Powell, 9 Hilary Hoare , 10 Anita Hoare, 11 , 12 Jean Watkins, 13 Marjorie Addis, 14 Pat or Betty Jones, 15 , 16 , 17and18 are Mr, Mrs Bill Powell , 20 , 21 , 22 , 22 , 23 , 24 , 25 Muriel Worgan , 26 , 27 John Frowen , 28 Margaret Rose Powell , 29 , 30 Joan Samuels , 31 Margaret Voyce, 32 Brenda Burley , 33 , 34 .
Thanks to Jean Lawrence (Jean Watkins) for help with the names.

David Dowle added (November 2011): "...re the rail trip to the Festival of Britain. It was n't just secondary schools that went. I was at Scowles C of E Primary and we went on the same or similar trip. We certainly joined a larger train and I'm fairly certain we arrived at Paddington. I can distinctly remember being on top of a London double decker bus and being amazed at Regents Street. In other years we also went to Windsor and the River Thames and once to Whipsnade although I belive we joined the trains at Gloucester. BR employed a man to go round the schools organising these trips. Was n't the Festival of Britain trip the last time a passenger train left Coleford?".

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