loppylugs 8,201 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 You shouldn't have posted that photo CT we don't want to give our Ben a heart attack! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
trogg 1,471 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Not only for Bens sake what about our Jill she is not to happy with the reminder of the Manning Academy for Young Ladies. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Five years before my time, you lot, but shows the quad corridors had been covered over by glass. Looks like a mixture of sixth formers and probably fifth formers wearing summer uniforms. As to our Ben, Pickleface would have made mincemeat of the likes of him! I can safely say that she was one woman he would not have been able to charm! If he had any sense, he wouldn't have tried! 4 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
loppylugs 8,201 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 You underestimate our Ben, Jill. He would just regard that as an extra bit of a challenge. They didn't have gals like that when I was in school. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
benjamin1945 14,079 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 Loppy and Jill both right,, i would have rose to the challenge,, i never did have any sense 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted February 25, 2019 Report Share Posted February 25, 2019 She would probably have enjoyed playing football with you, Ben. She was that sort of woman. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 9,044 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 I came across this photo recently, and it hasn't appeared previously on here. At a guess it's the main entrance to Manning. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 4,418 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 It’s the words ‘Manning School’ over the entrance which removes all of the guesswork! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Cliff Ton 9,044 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 I knew it was Manning; just wasn't sure if it was the main entrance or the back door for trades people Quote Link to post Share on other sites
philmayfield 4,418 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 If that’s the tradesman's entrance you should see the front door! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,050 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 Completely different to the Manning I went to on Robins Wood Road! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 3,004 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 4 minutes ago, MelissaJKelly said: Completely different to the Manning I went to on Robins Wood Road! Was that the school next to Aspley Wood special school Melissa ? Think I've mentioned this before, my sister in law was in Manning same time as you. B. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted June 25, 2019 Report Share Posted June 25, 2019 8 hours ago, Cliff Ton said: came across this photo recently, and it hasn't appeared previously on here. At a guess it's the main entrance to Manning. Correct CT. It's the entrance to the Admin Block. Head's office to the left, medical/viva voce examination room first window on the right, remaining windows on right are those of the school office. First storey windows are those of the needle work room and senior library Only the sixth form used this entrance. Below that, it was used only by latecomers who were locked out of the side entrances. The deputy head, Colthorpe, lurked behind the doors and would write down names of those who dared be tardy, along with the reason. The result was always detention. Just looking at it makes me feel ill! The rear entrance was far less salubrious. What became the Manning in later years was the old Peveril School building on Robinswood Road. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
MelissaJKelly 2,050 Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 On 6/25/2019 at 10:35 AM, Beekay said: Was that the school next to Aspley Wood special school Melissa ? Think I've mentioned this before, my sister in law was in Manning same time as you. B. Don't think I remember you saying Beekay. But yes that's the school. I was there in 2004 and left in 2009 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 3,004 Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 34 minutes ago, MelissaJKelly said: Don't think I remember you saying Beekay. But yes that's the school. I was there in 2004 and left in 2009 Apologies profusely Melissa, got the wrong person. It was Jill Sparrow. You are way too young. My sister in law was at school back in the late 60s. My wife and i were/are lifetime vice presidents of Aspley Wood school. Didn't the school next door used to be Pevril school before Manning, or have I got that wrong also. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 5 hours ago, Beekay said: . Didn't the school next door used to be Pevril school before Manning, or have I got that wrong also. Yes, it did, Beekay. I don't know when the changeover occurred. My older sister attended Peveril from 1961 to 1966. Both buildings now gone. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Beekay 3,004 Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 HOW CAN YOU BE A VICE PRESIDENT OF AN EMPTY SPACE ? Gonna find a dark corner now cos' it's not nice to see a man cry... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted June 27, 2019 Report Share Posted June 27, 2019 The Manning site on Gregory Boulevard is now occupied by a gym/swimming pool on part of the admin block and upper quad footprint. Djanogly Academy was built over the tennis courts and hockey field. Pickleface would turn puce but she probably haunts the gym. If I'd been more successful with my javelin that day in 1972, she'd have started her spectral career much earlier! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Berrima 0 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 On 8/27/2018 at 8:13 AM, JAquino said: My mother attended from Canada around 1953-54. Found her old photo album, trying to upload photo but says its too big. If your mother was Diane Haxby from Saskatoon, I have quite vivid memories of her joining our class for a few months. She appeared to us ' frumps' as very glamorous. - tall, good looking with immaculate blonde hair and so confident. I think she was at least a year older than us and managed to make our grey shirts and tunics look stylish. My particular memory is of her standing up when a new teacher came to take class, placing her fingers tips firmly on the desk, pushing up her sleeves (that became the mannerism for all of us to copy) and introducing herself, spelling out her surname so there was no mistake. Hope life treated her well. Chris Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted December 2, 2019 Report Share Posted December 2, 2019 Welcome to NS, Berrima. From your description of the uniform, you were at Manning before my time. I have a number of friends who were there in the 50s and some of the staff would have been there over both our tenures...Miss Long, for instance. I would be interested to hear your memories of the place. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pitstop 0 Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 What year did you start at Manning Jill? Is the colleen Mrs Davy? Did you really hate it so much and did you feel that the education was below par? You certainly seem to have benefitted from the English lessons, you write very well. It will be interesting to know when you were there. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted February 13, 2020 Report Share Posted February 13, 2020 Welcome Pitstop. I commenced my sentence at Manning in September 1969. Yes, indeed, Mrs Davy. One of a kind. I wouldn't like to think there was another lurking anywhere. It would be fair to say I hated The Manning. In fact, it would be something of an understatement! Yet, I'm not alone in those sentiments. I know of no one who liked the place. Perhaps you are the exception that proves the rule? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DJ360 5,620 Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Am I correct in assuming that Manning was created as a sort of Female version of High Pavement? HP was of course a Co-Ed school at some point, around the 1930s I think. I know we had some strong associations, and useter occasionally draft in Manning Girls to play female parts in school plays, but I don't know the full story. I recall one afternoon leaving the changing rooms at the HP Bestwood site. That was next to the Gym and the showers... and it had the unmistakeable smell of male sweat, rarely washed sports kit..etc. I was only a first year, so I wasn't yet fully 'engaged' with the female of the species.. so when a rather attractive girl in Manning uniform confronted me, I was rather overwhelmed.. She was in the litle 'porch' between the outside, and the HP Gym. She fixed me with an unconquerable gaze and asked. 'Would you please close that door?' 'That door', was of course the door into the changing rooms/showers. Whatever romantic or other associations she had with the school,.. she really didn't deserve to confront that smell... so I complied. 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jill Sparrow 8,618 Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 Manning was indeed the female equivalent of High Pavement. For those unwary souls who passed their 11 plus in my day, the choice was Mundella, Bluecoat (church attendance was mandatory) or Manning (girls)/ High Pavement (boys). By 1969, FFGS was no longer an option. Manning opened around 1931 and was always a single sex school. At sixth form level, there were joint productions each year of Gilbert and Sullivan with High Pavement but, other than that, no young males were ever seen on our premises. Male teachers were very few. Girls were encouraged by many of the staff in a condescending and patronising attitude towards males, being informed that they were basically a waste of time whose only purpose was to distract us from making academic progress and tell us we were inferior. I do, to an extent, applaud that sentiment and still believe that single sex schools are a beneficial arrangement. Many, I know, will disagree. I never visited High Pavement but if it boasted showers, it was more fortunate than Manning. All we had were footbaths! 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ValuerJim 277 Posted February 14, 2020 Report Share Posted February 14, 2020 I was a 'young male' c1960, and well remember being in Manning as one of the inter-sixth form society, as an HP pupil. Most uneventful, but I did end up married to an old girl, and still am, 52 years later. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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