Hi peg many thanks for your returned feed back , yes i do inded knew Ickneild street sec moderen
i went there myself from junior school along with my two cousins bryan and barry phelps whom lived on ford stret
just across the road facing the bus depot
i left there in 1959, i can,t say i really enjoyed it thou ,yes old man kitchener was head master and urch is second in command
he always use the slipper on you if you was ever later then there was joe wiseman the creep
all the lads hated him to come by you ashe was abit of a pervert if it had been reported he would have been locked up but nobody ever did report him
the first year i was there along with all the other new kids for that year coming from juniors
was teraways they threw inks all over the teachers clothes at the back of his suit
and the other one was a mr godfrey a young guy but disabled with one arm obvisiouly he was new to teaching
i felt sorry for him because most of these kids from hockley was reall thugs
they threw things at him and abuse him him in every form they could do to him
one day he actualy ran across the class room floor and into the corner of the class room and started to kick and stamp on his own rubbish bin screaming at it the class was in stitches then old kitchener heard the commotion and yelled out to us all
the poor teacher left the school there was not much difference with his replacement mr fortune but he was a big
bloke and he barked at them , meaning he was showing them that he was in charge and not you lot
i see you lived in heaton street for them years did you ever know the keo family or the haynes family
whom lived in heaton street they lived across more or less facing the gates as well
by the way i am enjoying your stories and threads peg i read every one of them
best wishes Alan,, Astonian,,,,,,