WHO remembers dancing round the maypole on a sunny summer's day in the 1940s?

If you do than take a close look at the picture here — particularly if you went to Whipton School in Exeter.

The photograph belongs to Alice Selley (nee Godden) from Thorverton, who has very kindly loaned it to Nostalgia in the hope that some old friends might remember happy days.

Mrs Selley said: "The photograph was taken, I would guess, in the 1940s, of a group of Whipton School pupils and their maypole.

"The girl in the dark dress and white collar in the foreground is Joan Tancock. To the right a boy I cannot remember the name of, then June Bovington, then Timothy John Potter, then Madge Mallet, then, I think, Ray Cooney, then Sheila Smith, two I cannot remember, then David Wickers, then me. The last girl is Beryl Stanley, then three I don't remember.

"We were so lucky to go to this lovely new school, as it was then, with wonderful grassy spaces to play in, with lots of trees.

"Several of these children went on to grammar schools in Exeter and some on to university.

"Our teachers were the already often-mentioned Mr Mabley, Miss Parker, Mrs Bowden and our headmaster was Mr Sharland."

Mrs Selley added that a group of Whipton School ex-pupils meet annually at the Red House, Whipton, every September.

If you have any old photographs you would like to share with Nostalgia readers send them to: Mike Byrne, Express & Echo, Heron Road, Sowton, Exeter, EX2 7NF or email mbyrne@expressandecho.co.uk.