Memory Lane: Retirement on the menu for cook at Walpole
Published: 11:00, 27 October 2019
Walpole Highway Primary School children say farewell to their popular cook, Mrs May Horspole, on her retirement in October, 1981.
She was presented with a series of gifts to mark her departure after cooking many thousands of meals for pupils of the village’s primary school over 33 years.
Mrs Horspole, who had been a pupil at the school herself, started working at the school to help a friend with cleaning and scrubbing the classrooms.
Then she was asked to help in the kitchen, initially for a few weeks. Over the years she worked under eight headteachers.
A special retirement card made by infant teacher Mrs C Milton depicted a typical school meal.
