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    St Margaret Clitherow Girls School Pitts Farm Road

    Oooo.... maybe we were class mates...???
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    St Margaret Clitherow Girls School Pitts Farm Road

    Hi Yatesy I think Miss Ward was the English teacher, I had her as my Form Mistress in 1st & 2nd years. 1970 to 1972... she terrified me. Sure she was a nice woman but I quaked for some reason while in her form & classes... breathed a sigh of relieve in 3rd year...ha ha.
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    New John Street West & New John Street

    Thank you MWS... guess im going to be busy in the cold dark winter months researching etc. ha ha.
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    New John Street West & New John Street

    I some times look at these photos and think "Is that my Mom or is that us (2 sisters & me) as kids... no photos at all of my childhood, destroyed/list over tje years for whatever reason or couldn't afford the expense of a camera and development, shame really. Lovely to see photos of places i...
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    New John Street West & New John Street

    Thank you very informative, sure you ment 2021 though not 1921 ha ha. I'm getting to an age I remember more about my long distance past than i do about things i did last week. I enjoy history and finding out about where I was brought up, the area, schools, history, seeing before/after photos...
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    St Margaret Clitherow Girls School Pitts Farm Road

    Hi Yatesy, you must have been a year ahead of me if you started in 1969, I'm sure I started in September of 1970. My first form teacher when I first went there (had same teacher for two years running 1st & 2nd years) was Miss Ward (Home Econ.), think she took a major dislike to me, I could do no...
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    New John Street West & New John Street

    May I ask if you found that little nugget of information regarding names of who lived there from the Census and is it easy to find out such things??? How do i access this information?
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    St Margaret Clitherow Girls School Pitts Farm Road

    Thank you for your response and if possible in would live to visit Edmund Campion school to see the changes to both the area itself and the school. I had finished schooling at St Margaret Clitheroe in July 1975 after my sitting CSE's/O'Levels so missed the change over of names and it becoming...
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    St Margaret Clitherow Girls School Pitts Farm Road

    Think it might have been either Order of St Agnes or Dominican Order.
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    New John Street West & New John Street

    If memory serves me right (in my mid 60's now) but remember being told that we lived at 242 New John Street West when I was in my early years. Was there such a street and if possible any photos to be found of said street/area???
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    St Margaret Clitherow Girls School Pitts Farm Road

    Which teacher/forms where you in during your time there?? I was in Miss Wards (1st & 2nd years), 3rd year a lovely teacher who taught English but cant remeber her name (tall with blonde hair), then in Mrs Kent's classes for 4th & 5th year.
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