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It was probably 1942 when I attended the infant’s school and my only lasting memory is one of peeing my pants in class because I was too shy to put my hand up and ask if I could go to the toilet!
Dave Barker - formerly of East Prescot Road, Knotty Ash and now living in New Zealand
Dave Barker - formerly of East Prescot Road, Knotty Ash and now living in New Zealand
Open fires in the infant’s school!
Remember trying to turn the huge knob on the big heavy door into the classroom - I had to use both hands! Inside the classroom there was an open fire burning, which was always kept banked up high!!! Imagine that in an infant’s school today! If you sat too close to it, it would burn your legs.
Anne Ainscough
Anne Ainscough
It was a place of wonder...... "Who wants to play cowboys and indians" doesn't resonate with 21st century kids !
David Leyland
David Leyland
Mr Gregson cycled to work every morning from his house in West Derby.
He also grew the most beautiful fuchsias that adorned the window sills of the classroom.
He also grew the most beautiful fuchsias that adorned the window sills of the classroom.
I attended the infants school and was there when Ken Dodd was in the juniors, and I remember him in a school concert to which the infants were taken. I lived in Newenham Crescent and remember Ken coming around to hang around with his schoolmates during the war and then later after the war I remember him coming round with chandleries .
There was a little old man who lived with them. I think it may have been an uncle. And he was a well known character . I think Ken based his Diddymen on him!
Derek Hyamson
Derek Hyamson
Who could forget B.G Blades. He was a story teller like no other and gave many of us a love of Dickens.
I remember the weekly spelling tests when a stroke of the cane would be administered for every wrong spelling - how times have changed!
Joan Turner (nee Barker)
I remember the weekly spelling tests when a stroke of the cane would be administered for every wrong spelling - how times have changed!
Joan Turner (nee Barker)