LocalBornFurriner

I was at Bentinck Road School from January 1962 to July 1967, and the headmistress when I started was Miss Highfield: at that time there were still "big girls" (secondary school pupils) upstairs, with the infants and juniors on the ground floor. The uniform was navy blue, and i think the badge was in red. Mrs Leheup (pronounced "lee-up" by us) took the Reception infants, with Miss Jane Freemantle teaching the next class up and a Miss Sale elsewhere in the Infant department a bit later on. I think Miss Walton came along later in the Juniors, but when I did my own teaching practice at Bentinc

Although I was born in Hyson Green my Mum was from the East End and my Dad's from North Wales, so the local lingo was quite a mystery when I started school...however "taters" for low temperatures is familiar. There may well be other connections to other Midlands sayings, but dahn sahf "p'tater mould" is rhyming slang for "cold" and is generally used abbreviated. I also remember "suckers" and "tooffies" for what I knew as ice lollies and sweets, "tabs" for ears, and playing Dobby at break-times, long before Harry Potter was thought of. I was introduced to Kali (pronounced kay-lye) which my