Hi Carolina, I find it difficult to believe you didn't have a starring role (at the very least a rat), obviously the director didn't know talent when he/she saw it. I know what it is like to be passed over (a flicker in the crowd scene, as the song goes)- fancied playing Joseph in my first year's production of the Nativity (term commencing Set 60) managed to get Shepard no. 2, which has led me to another flashback, I hadn't realised how heavy the stage make-up had been applied until I got home that evening and looked in the mirror, the reason I was getting so many funny looks on the bus ride home was suddenly explained!Peg I was just in the crowd shouting - rats rats (x 3) we must get rid of the rats, they chase our dogs and killed our cats.
Hi Lyn, that's the one! Fantastic! Thanks! A yearning for an egg sandwich has suddenly developed.have to admit peg i had school dinners a few times and i loved them...would this be your cafe..farm st school visible on the left
lyn
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Hi Carolina, the punishment sounded very harsh, detention would have been more appropriate (especially if the builder was still working!) Was he working on the new toilet blocks? I estimate they were built in '61. What was in your gondola basket that you couldn't abandon it?Well Peg as you are forthcoming with all your mishaps I have to now admit I had my prefect badge taken off me. The reason - it was Christmas time, some good looking builders on site (one in particular). Someone shouted Miss Cadman is coming I ran at the back of a shed to get away but my gondola basket got caught and so I was trapped. Well it was the season of goodwill to all builders!
Hi Lyn, that's the one! Fantastic! Thanks! A yearning for an egg sandwich has suddenly developed.
(I've looked for the cafe name, if there is one I can't make it out).
Regards,
Peg.
Mr pwee if you did somthing wrong he grab hold of your sideburns and stand you up. who remenbers alan brisco hitting himMemoirs of an HLSS would-be guitar player
Hi folks, does anyone remember the name of the music teacher who was certainly in-post years 1964 and 65? Bearded, favouring cords and a rider of a Francis-Barnet motor cycle he was a superb Spanish classical guitar player. I remember, vividly, listening to him play during lunchtimes, in the artroom, whilst Mr Jones, artmaster, captured him in oils.
(This inspired me to to want to learn to play the guitar, but when after 2 years I hadn't progressed beyond page 3 of Burt Weedon's iconic guitar instruction book Play in a Day I was forced to conclude I didn't have a natural talent).
Regards,
Peg.
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Hi Lyn, I did, egg sarnies - one of the few things just as good after 51 years!no peg i cant see a name for the cafe either...hope you made that egg sarnie
lyn
Hi John, welcome to the Forum.Mr pwee if you did somthing wrong he grab hold of your sideburns and stand you up. who remenbers alan brisco hitting him
he had the cane from Mr Walker till his hand was bleeding his dad came round to the school, and there was a minor punch up in the play groundHi John, welcome to the Forum.
I don't remember the teacher as the sort that might attract a violent action, was Brisco expelled?
Regards,
Peg.
Memoirs of an HLSS would-be guitar player
Hi folks, does anyone remember the name of the music teacher who was certainly in-post years 1964 and 65? Bearded, favouring cords and a rider of a Francis-Barnet motor cycle he was a superb Spanish classical guitar player. I remember, vividly, listening to him play during lunchtimes, in the artroom, whilst Mr Jones, artmaster, captured him in oils.
(This inspired me to to want to learn to play the guitar, but when after 2 years I hadn't progressed beyond page 3 of Burt Weedon's iconic guitar instruction book Play in a Day I was forced to conclude I didn't have a natural talent).
Regards,
Peg.
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Memoirs of an HLSS would-be guitar player
Hi folks, does anyone remember the name of the music teacher who was certainly in-post years 1964 and 65? Bearded, favouring cords and a rider of a Francis-Barnet motor cycle he was a superb Spanish classical guitar player. I remember, vividly, listening to him play during lunchtimes, in the artroom, whilst Mr Jones, artmaster, captured him in oils.
(This inspired me to to want to learn to play the guitar, but when after 2 years I hadn't progressed beyond page 3 of Burt Weedon's iconic guitar instruction book Play in a Day I was forced to conclude I didn't have a natural talent).
Regards,
Peg.
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Iwas there 1963 to 1967 I think around 1966What year John?
That's it! Well remembered!If my memory isn't playing tricks on me, I think the music teacher was Mr Cole?
Hi Lyn, enjoy the server shut-down, for my part I'm pretty sure I'll be working on my printer problem - can't clear a document stuck in the queue - has there ever been a software program that works properly and keeps on working?!have to admit peg i had school dinners a few times and i loved them...would this be your cafe..farm st school visible on the left
lyn
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Hi Carolina, being coy about the contents of your gondola? No matter, how about an egg sandwich for a 1/- (5p)? The painful truth is my budget wouldn't stretch further than a single and it didn't help much when I got a paper-round at 7s-6d a week (37.1/2p) - can't believe I worked for so little, but it did go a lot further in 1963.Well Peg as you are forthcoming with all your mishaps I have to now admit I had my prefect badge taken off me. The reason - it was Christmas time, some good looking builders on site (one in particular). Someone shouted Miss Cadman is coming I ran at the back of a shed to get away but my gondola basket got caught and so I was trapped. Well it was the season of goodwill to all builders!
Hi Carolina, you may recall I lived in Heaton St. so I know all the roads you mentioned, Woolworths on The Flat was my virtual home - Toy counter especially. You really must have got up at the crack of dawn.I did morning only paper round. Ford Street, Whitmore Street and Park Road. 8/-. Sometimes I fetched the lady owner (Peggy) a sandwich from the cafe on the corner and this would earn me another 2/-. When I think that I did this all before getting to school in Bartley Green.