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Hi Jacqueline yes i too was afrade of that belcony i even had nightmars of the belcony , i remember one day a kid tried to slide down the balcony spiral hand rail but fell down the insid and hit the rail at the bottom wich sent him slideing across the hall and a dinner lady came to his rescue it...
One of the best pictures of Cowper st school i have seen, always remember going there in the dark winter mornings and seeing the classrooms lights big round globe light shades , its funny the little things that stick in your mind
Hi everyone i went in the outdoor many times to buy pop or have a bottle filled with beer for mom & dad and in later years about 1959 the family that ran it was named parrot i went to scool with there daughter i cant remember her first name
Yes i remember miss Savage she was a tough teacher but she took a shine to me i think because of my artwork, i think she was also at cowper street school unless my old brain is playing tricks on me , any one else remember her being at cowper street . I also remember mr Edwards i had the cain off...
Hi Mikejee yes i remember the shop very well we all called it fanny falkners used to get all our sweets from there pinapple cubes and peardrops in the huge glass jars P S you have a picture of the shop someware on hear mike
Hi Lyn been a wile hope you are well and every one on this site . I think you have it right looking at the picture cowper street school would be opposit side of the road . The only time i spent at that end of the street was too and from school and spent most of my time down my own end lol ( as...
My older brother told the firemen there was oxy accetaline in there but they told him to move along minuts after they blew up i remember it well , but i didnt remember so many people geting hurt
was there a Tommy rogers i think he rode a motorbike and only had one leg , but i might be getting mixed up with two different people but i defiantly remember a Tommy rogers think he was friends with my dad .
Hi Tony b i would love to see your photo , i was at the school about the same time ,the name john Shakespeare is very familiar to me i think we might have been friends i lived the other end of Cowper street