Hi folks, Mabz and myself did not have a meeting of minds on the layout of the first floor addition to the school and with no further recollections forthcoming there couldn't be a majority vote to decide. I've amended the plan so we are both right and uploaded Issue 2 to my original posting on 9 January 2017.
Hi Carolina, If you and I are talking about appearing in the same Town Hall event it must have been 61 or 62 because I started the school in 60 and I know it was not during my first year. I have to confess to having no recollection of the Song of Hiawatha but having said that it was quite an extensive program of songs and the only one I can remember for sure is the Viking Song which begins Clang Clang on the Anvil....... I also remember the choir was huge, it filled the stage and I was high up at the very back.
Hi Lyn,ha ha peg a very funny post which has bought to mind something similar that happened to me although not in woodwork...lozells girls school...pottery lesson which we took at burlington st school (pottery classroom still there)..slapped the clay on the wheel and peddled like billyo to turn it...way too fast and the clay spun off the wheel and went flying in all direction of the classroom..happy days
lyn
Hi Lyn, I'm pleased you approve; did any of your works of art survive into old age to take pride of place on your mantlepiece?ha ha peg..im in stitches....are you sure you were not there at the time
lyn
same with needlework..at that age i just was not the domestic type of girl..too much of a tom boy more suited to climbing trees and getting stuck up them..very happy days indeed
Hi Carolina, that means you left March-April, whilst it's possible 61 was the year I appeared at the town hall it's doubtful, which suggests the event was staged more than once, which surprises me because it was such a lavish affair. I should really know why the funds were raised but unfortunately I don't.
Lyn, I'm sure your scones were in a class of their own!no peg nothing survived...i was put on double cookery lessons after that and i did not fair much better at that
lyn
Hi Carolina, which part did you play?
Hi Mike, sorry can't answer your question, but you, being on the inside, might be able to throw some light on why the school was called Burbury Street; as far as I know there was no geographical connection between the school and that road, not even an entrance. I know Burbury Street was the official address (Farm Street was already taken) and that being the case the school must have been one of the few buildings that was not located at its address.
Hi Lyn,peg my feeling is that it was named burbury st school simply because burbury st was the nearest st to it...bet it would have been called farm st school had the name not already been taken and i still cant work out why farm st school was not called villa st school because all there was was a gate in farm st which led to one of the playgrounds...very strange
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!
Hi Lyn, that's the one! Fantastic! Thanks! A yearning for an egg sandwich has suddenly developed.
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?
Mr pwee if you did somthing wrong he grab hold of your sideburns and stand you up. who remenbers alan brisco hitting him
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.
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 ground
