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Loxton Street School

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Sadly this just shows how little interest I had in family history previously. I've just came across this newspaper clipping from 2002 about a reunion of my dad's class of 1951, which I'd never seen before. Don't even know if he went.

Scan isn't great.

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sircharles60 said:
Yes! Miss Lumsden class was a wooden structure in the playground I seem to remember there were two classrooms in that structure.

I have vague recollections of an eclipse, I thought that had been my imagination. I think I was 5/6 then which would make it 1953/54.

I also remember a lad called Johnny? Hook, he had a mass of curls and very blond hair, he was killed in an accident with a dustbin lorry over by the flats. His funeral cortège was driven passed the school and we all went outside to watch as it passed.
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I remember that - couldn't remember his name, but I remember the accident. I was at Loxton from 1951-1957, when I went to Central Grammar.
 
i remember loxton street pretty well and not with fond memories. i think i went there from about 1954 to 1957/8. i was asked by one of the teachers to "look after the steps and keep the children off" ... i would be about 7 or 8 at the time so about 1956/7 ... and i got a right slap on the legs leaving the teachers fingerprints across my calves from another teacher for being "on" the steps. i ran home to tell my mom as i lived in the flats on melvina road ... and she came and had it out with the teacher and i got an apology from the headmaster and the teacher. i remember it as a very austere and rigid place and not with good memories at all, i had even picked up a nice whack on the hand for forgetting my book and i would have only been about 6 then. cruel by todays standards
 
I am surprised; I was at Loxton from 1951 to 1957 and I don't recognise those patterns of behaviour at all. My Loxton days were very happy ones. Still, just goes to show......
 
josietrue said:
hi embee
just looked at my bmd certs and my great grandfather was living at 2 back of 9 loxton street when his youngest son was born
so i think it would be between 1904 and 1907 when he died he was there
josie
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I think too many years have passed to get a reply to this particular post, but I have to make a comment in the hope of a reply from someone.
It is not myself but my mother who went to Loxton Street School, and, most relevant to this post, lived at that time at 2 back of 9 Loxton Street. My grandad and family were shown as living there in the 1911 census. Mom was born in 1908, so would have gone to Loxton Street school I think around 1913 to 1922 - a teacher she mentioned from there was a Mr Goer, who turned out to be the new headmaster at Nansen Road Infants when I started there in 1954 (Mr Goer I remember was awarded a medal, the O.B.E. I think, around 1956).
My grandad and family (including mom) left Loxton street in 1927 for a larger new council house in (what mom thought of at the time as miles away) Alum Rock, and the back-to-back in Loxton Street was taken on by grandad's eldest son (and mom's brother), Alf, with his new wife Hilda and daughter Dorothy . Dorothy loved the house, and told me that it was lovely, snug and cosy.
I remember us coming back from town (the city centre) one day on a 14 or 55 bus to Alum Rock, and mom showing me where Loxton Street used to be, it was now demolished and replaced by high-rise flats (which I think have since been demolished and replaced by houses).
It is a photos of Loxton Street itself (other than of the school) that I do not have and would very much like. Also, any photo from inside one of these houses, or to be told that they were very similar or even the same as others where photos of the interior do exist.
I know the pictures I want may have already been posted, I have looked and found just the school, so if they are here please point me at them.
 
dereklcg said:
arks we're still visible at the end of the dayHello Graham,i,m with you mate my teacher was miss lumsden & miss benbow, also i remember the wooden huts do you remember the total eclipse of the sun when you were there i was there from 1953 till i left and went to Charles Arthur st into the seniors.
Mr white was our teacher towards the end and we had to march up by vauxhall dairies to the annex,he used to smoke in the classroom,and he would get one of us to put it down the loo when he had finished it.
i was there when Alan cook as you remember falling under the bin lorry that day sad,tell you what Graham i,d like a lot more people like to see your photos,and if you track back via the search engine at the top right put in loxton st school and there is the start of the thread if you have,nt already.. have a safe journey mate hope to here from you soon. regards dereklcg
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i can vividly remember those huts as i was asked by a teacher to keep children off the steps during play time. then along came a lady teacher who smacked my legs and boy did she smack them, i cried and told her miss whoever had told me to guard the steps. i ran home to show my mom and she was up the school to give that teacher a piece of her mind, the marks were still visible at the end of the day. but i bet my mom scared the teacher as my mom was a formidable little lady ... to the end of her life, god bless her. but i hated loxton street and i hated school, can't ever remember going up those stairs, just playing marbles in the playground at playtime and those damn wooden steps.
 
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