These website additions include a newly found Report of our ‘forgotten’ entry in the 1965 ‘Youth Speaks’ Festival, several items about Mark House School, a prestigious ‘Borough wide’ McEntee Award for a MDC member, a new page for Marsh Street Youth Centre and the report on the CMMF Project at Kelmscott School, Walthamstow – from which this feature picture is taken. On a very sad note the additions also include a tribute to Bill Chapman.
Autumn 2023 Newsletter Extracts
Welcome to this latest, perhaps somewhat ‘overdue’ Newsletter and its range of Drama Club and Markhouse School items, along with details of a ‘goodly’ amount of newly found memorabilia now added to the Website.
The content inevitably leads in with the successful CMMF Performing Arts Project that took place at Kelmscott School in July and is followed by several new and interesting items about MDC members; although, sadly, these include our initial thoughts and memories following the recent loss of Bill Chapman – along with those of his wife Helen in reminding us that ‘he never lost his fond memories of his time and friendships at the Drama Club!
Website Additions – September 2022
These latest additions include some limited memorabilia from several plays and a range of Guardian Newspaper Report about Markhouse School – including some very recently discovered ones relating to the Parents Petitioning the Council over the threatened closure of the school
September 2022 Newsletter – Extract
Along with the latest website additions, this Newsletter highlights the anticipated return to ‘home ground’ via a further CMMF project at Kelmscot School, Walthamstow, Guardian Reports about the Schools early ‘external’ examinations, some newly revealed non MDC activities at Markhouse and the parents reaction to the threatened closure in 1966 . There is also news of a number of our members and the Council’s ‘formal’ recognition of Stan Raynor on his retirement from the Marsh Street/Markhouse Youth Centres.
Website Additions – April 2022
This batch of newly found production memorabilia and photographs of former members are complemented with recently coloured photographs replacing the original black and white versions from a good number of MDC plays – as this photograph of the cast from the 1968 Aladdin Pantomime shows.