Heartearming moment retired teacher meets up with her first ever pupils 70 years on

After starting her vocation successful 1956, Margaret Raymond became truthful fashionable with her students that they person kept successful interaction with her for 7 decades and person a reunion each November

A retired “dream” teacher inactive meets up with pupils from the archetypal people she taught astir 70 years ago.

Margaret Raymond, 88, started her vocation erstwhile she was 20 years aged astatine Chapman Street Girls' School, Hull, successful 1956.The recently trained teacher went connected to thatch for 38 years and taught astir 1,000 children. She became truthful fashionable with the students, a radical of them kept successful interaction with her for 7 decades.

They present person a reunion each twelvemonth connected the 3rd Wednesday successful November. Mrs Raymond, 88, told the BBC: "It's beauteous to spot however they've progressed. They've each made truly bully usage of their lives. I worth friendship. It's the 1 happening that nary 1 tin ever instrumentality from you."

One of her erstwhile pupils, Pauline Iveson, said: "Margaret was an implicit dream. She was a beauteous teacher. I got distant with murder."

Classmate Barbara Norton added: “She was a dolly bird. Always good dressed." Mrs Raymond, past known arsenic Miss Chapman, taught history, said her pupils successful the aboriginal days would usage a dip pen to capable successful the pages.

“They liked to beryllium a show and they would capable up the ink wells," she said. "Their penning was conscionable beautiful."

The teacher was truthful fashionable her erstwhile pupils turned up astatine her wedding successful 1959. Then a fewer years aboriginal their reunions began aft erstwhile pupil Maureen Travis, sent a Christmas paper to Mrs Raymond and they decided to conscionable for coffee.

After this much friends were invited and the numbers rapidly grew. Maureen recalled of her schoolhouse days: "It was precise strict. We had to person our hairsbreadth tied back. You couldn’t person a fringe."

Denise Manley, is the youngest erstwhile classmate to be the reunions, and told the BBC : "The champion happening is that we’re each here. We emotion being unneurotic and reminiscing."