Dad remembers the Junction pub (opposite the school?)
Hello Graham,me,thinks our path,s must have crossed somewhere along the way.The Junction was at the the junction (clue in the name, eh?) of Great Francis Street and Bloomsbury Street. In a bizarre way it was kind of opposite Loxton Junior School in the 1950s, because we used the rooms over the Co-op in Gt Francis Street as an annexe. I remember the trek backwards & forwards to the main school building for assembly, breaktime, PE lessons etc in all weathers when I was in Mr Cummings's class in 1956-57. In the mid-50s The Junction was kept by the Docker family - Jackie was a year behind me at Loxton Juniors (I left in 1957 & went to Central Grammar).
Cheers
Graham
Hello hp sauce,i,m a former locko boy started in 1953.Hi,does anyone remember my dad, Philip Haynes? He would have started at Loxton Street School probably around 1955/56. I have been looking for old photo's of the school and surrounding area at that time, to put together a special memories book for dad's 60th birthday next month. If anyone could help me out with this i would be really grateful !
GER22VAN and all you other old Loxtonians: I feel so lonely...! Whenever I read posts about Locko, they seem to be always directed at old schoolmates who attended the school around the Fifties...!
Isn't there anyone there who went to Locko at the same time as I did: from 1939 to 1942?
I know Peter Walker sympathises with the same "time" factor that I have - but then, his dad was one of my teachers.
Are there any of my old classmates knocking about in Heartlands? Where are you Colin Cotterill; "Nipper" Billington; Donald Green; Gerald De Roche; Ron Kingett; Georgie Baker, "Tucker Parrish, "Mousy" Heesom, etc.etc.?
Or are you all - like me - too ancient to believe that any of us are still in existence...?
Jim Pedley (pedlarman)
One of my teachers at Nansen Juniors always had a glue pot. Was this a male teacher thing?Brian, you're right about the smell of that glue-pot.