only just come across this forum....
Got a memory that Mrs Carty was off work sick and came back to work (way too early) specifically to see her class front that mornings school assembly. I remember her keeling over like a ton of bricks during the the course of the assembly and then Mr Abbott running hell for leather probably to dial 999. We were all sent back to the classroom. Think it was the deputy head, ?Mr Blunsden, who broke the news later that morning that Mrs Carty had died.
Pretty sure I remember Elaine Spencer (who was in the Portland swimming club with me ba
