Purseglove

Does anyone remember "George the Forge" He was the blacksmith who had a forge opposite the church in Gedling, He used to come up to the school and give demonstrations of his trampoline skills, we were told that he was an ex-circus person, I remember going to his forge and watch him shoeing a horse, not long after that he disappeared and the forge was pulled down. I also remember the big horse chestnut tree at the front of Susan Leach's house/dairy at the bottom of the twitchell, where we used to collect the best conkers.

PS: That should read Terry Briggs not Nriggs, sorry, "typo" gets the blame again.Not sure of any others but Dave Duncan died working as a steeplejack. Michael Hallam and Gordon Wise were head boys while Linda Elliot was head girl. I spent most of my time in "Percy's office making friends with his cane !!

Miss Robinson was our form teacher while Mr Miles was the 4P form teacher though he left during 1958, a good but very strict teacher his favourite weapon was a size 11 plimsoll. I started at the school while it was still being finished after doing my first year at Cavo. I went to Cavo after a year at Westdale Lane, this was my first school after returning to England after 3 years in Australia where I returned in 1966. Although I was terrible to Miss Robinson, she sent Christening presents to my two boys when they were born, (Beatrix Potter books)