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  2. Nottingham Technical School for Textile Trades

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    On 8/7/2020 at 6:57 PM, benjamin1945 said:

    Ey up Leslie..........just wondered,, did you know Frankie Smith at Tech ?   we were mates at Padstow school on Bestwood estate,,,real good lad,,not seen him for about 40 years,,,he was playing in goal for Meridian and i was in the other team,,,i believe Blonde (on here) who you knew) was his girlfriend for a while.............

    Ey up Benjamin , who the f... are you ?yes I worked at Meridian in the CA department , and when miss lovely Irene Thornelly from Foisted Clay and Ward  , took over , I stopped being on monthly , changed departments , left , and above all said to myself , sod textiles , of course the most interesting things , were the ladies , I've never got over the fairer sex , well I did in another way , anyway , enough for now .

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  6. Nottingham Technical School for Textile Trades

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    On 11/22/2014 at 10:07 PM, Blondie said:

    I attended that Textile School on Bath Street in Nottingham from1958-61 when it closed down.........Miss Noris was the headmistress and there was Mr Kerry, Mr Deardan, Mr Rogers, Mr Rippon, Mr Bamber.........Miss Bostock, Miss Wenn, Miss Maud (yuk), Mrs Tillinghurst, Miss Winfield, Mrs Turner and the music teacher Mrs Jackson............I hated every minute of that place, it was a waste of three years of my life.......What a con........I was clever at the Junior School, but failed my 11 plus, nobody could understand why - I attended the Seniors for a year then took an exam to be sent to a Technical School, this was where I was sent, what a dump............ I felt that I had been cheated, I gained nothing and wanted to be sent back to my old school, but was not allowed........That old bag Miss Maud made my life a misery as I was miner's daughter and she hated as she called them 'filthy colliers'- No matter how hard I worked I was always given low marks, although we had all the latest encyclopeadia's at home...........Fortunately, I attended Night School afterwards and pulled myself up and became a top Legal Secretary........The mere thought of that place gives me the shivers................So if anyone wants to know what that place was like.......this in my opinion is it............

    Oh dear , I'm so sorry you had a terrible experience , because my birthday is the first of August , I happened to be the smallest youngest in the class , even the girls were taller than me , and worldly wiser , but some of them were beautiful .

    Anyway , I went on to be employed , at 'The Lace Research association ' Glaisdale drive , there to be an expert in the manufacture of Leiver's lace , which did me no good whatsoever , apart from prestige . I later had 'Samuel Pepys , Hardy's wine bar , and The old Malt Cross .

    Ventured from Newark to Malta in a boat ( not mine ) then to the Gran Canaria in another boat , flew to here in Mallorca , and that's it .

  7. Nottingham Technical School for Textile Trades

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    In my class were the following , Jean Plowright.  Valerie Benson , Celia Smith , Colin Bexon , Peter Savage , Michael Bellamy , Tony Slater , Rodney Barker , .....Toole , Eddie Cockeral , we called him Elvis , Joan Clark , sorry I can't remember more.

    I knitted my own school scarf , as did every one else , my blazer badge was of knitting needles and something else ? .

    I even knitted a pair of socks using the Griswold machine.

    Doesn't anyone remember me , I was the class urchin .