Kingsthorne Cranbourne Rd School

[daimlerman]

Class 1:1, 1962; at Kingsthorn juniors that me, Jeffrey Egan, top row far left. Teacher was Miss Mathews. Photo courtesy of Ray Turner, still my pal, next to me top row.
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[daimlerman]

Class 5 1965 with Mr Martin, and then out into the big wide world.

 

[Vivienne14]

I would have been the year above you. Mr Martin was my teacher for the last year at KJ&I too. I see you had twins in your class.

 

[daimlerman]

I would have been the year above you. Mr Martin was my teacher for the last year at KJ&I too. I see you had twins in your class.

We did. Margaret and Elizabeth Cooper.

 

[Vivienne14]

I bet this grabbed the attention of pupils ! Didn't have projects like this when I was there. The most exciting it got was making a papier mache model of the Elan Valley !!


Source: British Newspaper Archive

 

[Mavis66-73]

I actual lived in Cranbourne Road, and went to the school 1952 to 1958.
I was a super sensitive child not sure why. When I first went to school I kept crying because of some boy looked at me funny.
Mum had to go and ask if I could be moved to another place to seat, the teacher agreed, and all was well.
Also they used to take your name if you were late. In infant school for being late more than once, and only living down the road I had to go and see the Headmistress who asked me what time I went to bed. Mom had great difficultly getting me to bed, and I said something like 11pm. Which cause Mum to be summoned, and told a early bedtime would be more appropriate. On the way home Mum gave me a real stern warning about telling anyone our business.

I remember Mr Marsh in my 3rd year of Junior school, he like throwing blackboard rubbers at times, and also Mr Martin 4th year he was a gentleman.
My claim to fame is in the 3rd, and 4th year I sat next to Steve Winwood who became a famous musician, and singer. However, I remember him most, because when I was 11 I had national health glasses, and he called me prof, and four eyes.

I was at Kingsthorne from 1959 (Autumn term) until Easter 1963, when we moved to Erdington and I went to Yenton School. So Steve Winwood would have just left and gone to Great Barr. However, my elder sister and brother will have been at Kingsthorne with him - I never knew this but my sister (Kathryn Davis) went to Great Barr for the sixth form and she knew of him - she was year younger, not sure when he left.
Have seen reference to Head as being Mr Worrell, a name I have some recognition of - do remember that he caned boys in assembly on Friday mornings, always same one's! I do recall my mum saying Mr Hawkins was a senior member of staff, maybe he taught my sister, and he became Headmaster at Yenton School, Erdington - was there when I joined (however seems to have died around 1968.)

 

[Marc]

Thank you so much to everyone who has contributed to this amazing thread over the years, and an extra special big thanks to Vivienne for recreating this topic, following the loss of the old one.
I too went to Kingsthorne Juniors. I was born in Dec 65 and moved into the Hare & Hounds pub with my parents and twin brother Paul. I remember completing at least one year (or partial Year) at the Infants school. I must have been about 4 years old then. When we moved up to the junior school, some of my friends were Roy Patrick, Terry Kearney, Samantha Goodman and I think Chris Guessy. I don't have such an amazing memory though as some of our members.

I do remember Mr Martin, and I do recall taking part in an assembly, where one of our portly older teachers, possibly a headmaster, was telling us about his recent trip to France and referring to the French people as 'Little French Froggies'. He kept repeating the phrase with such delight.

I also remember music playing prior to the start of each assembly, and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy is engraved on my mind.

I also recall the nursery building (at least that's what I think it was) and a lady standing outside, shouting at me and calling me an "insolent little boy", for some unknown reason.

I often used to have to climb onto the school roof to retrieve various footballs and other balls that were frequently kicked or thrown up there. I think there was a door to the headmasters office up there and I recall one day, seeing three boys holding out there hands, as they were struck hard and fast by a long school ruler.

Digressing slightly, I have trouble with dates because I would have at least been around 4 at the junior school. Yet I was born at Dudley Road Hospital (City Hospital) in 1965, and at the time, we lived in the Old Windmill Pub directly opposite. Between then and Moving to the Hare & Hounds and attending Kingsthorne, we had also lived in The Angel, George Street Lozells and The Lamplighter, 2 Attenborough Cl, Newtown, Birmingham B19 2QA. https://maps.app.goo.gl/cRN4t9KUY3Dbdf426

So I'm guessing between birth and Kingstanding, we must have moved fairly frequently. Oddly though I still have childhood memories of sitting on the Pub step of the Old Windmill, and of my Mother Joan walking my brother and I across the road to the hospital, squeezing our little hands so tightly, we used to cry lol.

I have very fond memories of the school and the entire Kingstanding area. I just wish I could recall more names.

 

[Astoness]

hi marc as you most likely know the angel pub is still there although no longer a pub..thanks for the photo of it which i dont think i have seen before...it shows the old houses next to pub on the wills st side and just after those houses was st marys boys school now gone...i have been looking for a long time for a photo of st marys school ..would you happen to have anymore photos of wills street please..

lyn