Looking for something else, and stumbled on this forum. Not thought about the place for many, many years.
I was pupil at the school from 1957 -61, and left with 3 'O' levels (not the most auspicious beginning!), but I remember the years there as being ok. The school at that time was based in the back part of the big old brick school, and I think there were younger kids in the front part. School dinners were taken in the front as well- cant remember much about the room but I do remember the food that was bought in in containers. There must have been an assembly room somewhere also. School milk, long gome I suspect, kept in a shed or something in the yard (can't drink warm milk to this day) and a brick-built toilet block.
There was a wooden building in the back yard-the home of 'Jack' Stamper who taught technical drawing and ran the metal work shop upstairs at a church hall down the road. Phys ed, or whatever it was called in those days, took place either in the paved yard at the back of the school, or we were given plastic tokens and took the trolley bus down to Trent Bridge. Football on one side of the river and cricket just past the Forest grounds. The smell from the glue factory was only made bearable by the trains that went past the grounds. After the 'games' we went to a hole in the wall 'caf' at the back of the cimema and had sausage on a bun. I cant imagine kids today being given the same freedom...
The textile classes were held at the old 'ragged school' with 'Crash' Bamber in charge. It was the beginning of the Beatles era and we had great fun making our version of the thin knitted ties the boys wore, using the circular knitting machines.
Just down from the school was what I think was called Bath St. Surplas Store, an Aladdins cave full of ex-WD WW2 tools, machines and perhaps clothing. Quite the attraction for young men with a mechanical mind and no money.
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Looking for something else, and stumbled on this forum. Not thought about the place for many, many years.
I was pupil at the school from 1957 -61, and left with 3 'O' levels (not the most auspicious beginning!), but I remember the years there as being ok. The school at that time was based in the back part of the big old brick school, and I think there were younger kids in the front part. School dinners were taken in the front as well- cant remember much about the room but I do remember the food that was bought in in containers. There must have been an assembly room somewhere also. School milk, long gome I suspect, kept in a shed or something in the yard (can't drink warm milk to this day) and a brick-built toilet block.
There was a wooden building in the back yard-the home of 'Jack' Stamper who taught technical drawing and ran the metal work shop upstairs at a church hall down the road. Phys ed, or whatever it was called in those days, took place either in the paved yard at the back of the school, or we were given plastic tokens and took the trolley bus down to Trent Bridge. Football on one side of the river and cricket just past the Forest grounds. The smell from the glue factory was only made bearable by the trains that went past the grounds. After the 'games' we went to a hole in the wall 'caf' at the back of the cimema and had sausage on a bun. I cant imagine kids today being given the same freedom...
The textile classes were held at the old 'ragged school' with 'Crash' Bamber in charge. It was the beginning of the Beatles era and we had great fun making our version of the thin knitted ties the boys wore, using the circular knitting machines.
Just down from the school was what I think was called Bath St. Surplas Store, an Aladdins cave full of ex-WD WW2 tools, machines and perhaps clothing. Quite the attraction for young men with a mechanical mind and no money.