I went to Loxton st School back about 1938 when I was 8yrs old and living in Vauxhall. We left there when I was 11yrs old and went to live in a new house in Kingstanding. I remember I had to walk up Duddeston Mill Rd over the railway bridge down to, I think it was Gt Lister St, I know there were trams running along there and I had to cross over it to get to Loxton St.
Kandor, you say it was a boys school, but I saw a message on VirtualBrum I think it was. It was from a lady named Terry and she went there in 1957. I replied to her message and she said she was glad to hear from someone who even remembered the place. Yes indeed I do and have fond memories of school friends, and the Gas Works where we would go to get Coke for the fire in the winter months, and the continual smell of Gas in the air..
Happy Days. Wally.
Hi, Wally,
I know you wrote your post in 1994 and I hope you are still a member.
I just wanted to say that in all the "Old Schoolmates" websites I have looked at over the last seven or eight years I have only ever come across one other Loxtonian who was at Loxton Street Senior Boys at the same time that I was (a Brett Ford)
I have given up on my old
classmates but, at least, I have found yet
another Loxtonian who was there at about the same time as me...!
I joined the school just about the time WW2 started in 1939, when I was eleven and left at 14 in 1942.
Cheers,
Jim Pedley (pedlarman)