Were you at Berridge?

[Marrowman 13]

Hello Folks, Sorry for the delay in replying, I shouldn't have started this just before I was about to have my tea! I know hardly anything about computers, I was a postie before I retired and didn't need one in that job! In answer to Beekay I have a HP laptop and it runs on microsoft edge. Its only two years old so its pretty much up to date. I sent three images at once by email to my mate without any trouble so I can't understand why I can't put one image on here. The file size is 1.04mb. Is there any way of compressing it?

In answer to Letsavagoo, thanks for the offer to help. I will send you my email address seperately.

Thanks all, sorry for being an ignoramus!

[Beekay 4,398]

Marrowman, it should be easy to do with your laptop. First thing is to close nottstalgia, but don't log off. Open postimage and you'll be prompted to choose your image. When you've done that follow the prompts. I can send you an image of what to look for. B.

[MRS B 317]

Always the mentor Beekay. I had to write down what you told me re postimage in case I forgot as haven’t done a pic in a while. No doubt will have plenty next week as off to my favourite city Florence on Monday. I like it so much I even named my little cat after it !

[Marrowman 13]

https://storage.cloudconvert.com/tasks/8acd25a4-4dd5-4562-bb07-bea22f298086/Berridge Road Infants 1960.pdf?AWSAccessKeyId=cloudconvert-production&Expires=1683622235&Signature=xG4Agxbs22S8zXEg4UlwfiUhSEw%3D&response-content-disposition=attachment%3B filename%3D"Berridge Road Infants 1960.pdf"&response-content-type=application%2Fpdf

 

Trying again with the Berridge School image from 1959/60. Fingers crossed!

[letsavagoo 833]

I’m posting this on behalf of Marrowman. I’ve attached the info he previously posted but had difficulty including the image.

 

 

I found this picture of Berridge Road infants in 1960. I hope that you can see it as I found it very difficult to load as the maximum size for a file on this website is only 50kb which is really small. (Sorry to gripe!). Anyway, I was 5 years old at the time of this picture. I lived on Middlothian Terrace which was behind Gregory Boulevard. The street is long gone. I was only at Berridge Road for a few months as Mam and Dad managed to get a brand new council house at Bestwood. It was quite an upheaval moving as all the rest of the family lived in and around Hyson Green. Grandma and Grandad lived on Pleasant Row and I remember they had a well in the back garden. Grandad had a garden (they weren't called allotments) on Wilkinson Street to which I absolutely loved going, to help Grandad out. We didn't stay at Bestwood long as Mam and Dad didn't like it there so they managed to get an exchange to Aspley. Me and my brother didn't want to move as we liked playing on the building site where all the new council houses were going up!

I have some pictures of William Crane school but I will see if this message gets through Ok before I post them.

Thanks for letting me join the website.

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

This is one I haven't seen before. Any idea who the teacher is?

[letsavagoo 833]

Certainly recognise 3 boys and 1 of the girls on this, a couple of whom are on my later class photos. I need to compare. Not sure of names but it’s been a while. 

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

The girl on the front row, fifth from the left, could be Margaret Beardsall. I am in touch with her and will ask.

[Marrowman 13]

Thanks very much to Letsavagoo for loading this image for me.

 

Sadly I can't remember the name of the teacher. My parents have both passed away so I can't ask them and they never thought to annotate the backs of any of my school photos. I am 3rd from left in the middle row sporting a crew cut! As I said, I was only there a few months so don't remember too much about it although I think there was one boy there with a surname of Pye (possibly 2nd from right, middle row) and the name Johnny Grice seems to stick in my memory but I'm not sure which one he is.

 

One thing about Berridge Road that I do remember was climbing on a water butt in the playground and falling in! The teacher on duty fished me out but of course I was wet through! So she took me inside and took my clothes off to dry but of course I had no other clothes at school so she put me in her navy blue netball knickers which came up to my neck and I had to sit in class like that until my clothes were sufficiently dry! It's a wonder I wasn't scarred for life!

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

16 minutes ago, Marrowman said:

there was one boy there with a surname of Pye (possibly 2nd from right, middle row) and the name Johnny Grice seems to stick in my memory but I'm not sure which one he is.

Possibly Philip Pye. The only Grices I can find for this age group are Robert and Michael.

[letsavagoo 833]

Not certain but I think the boy in the middle of the back row is Richard Bradley and the girl next to him could be Karen Fox. Middle row, 2nd left is possibly Peter Flowers. 

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

It has been suggested that the teacher may be a Mrs Skillbeck.  I know there was a Mr Skillbeck who taught Berridge Senior Boys but I haven't heard of a Mrs Skillbeck teaching infants. However, this is 2/3 years before my time. Turnover in infant teachers was high as most were young and left to get married/have children.

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

The children on this photo were five years old and possibly  in their first term at school.  The end classroom, accessed via a door in the wall immediately adjacent to the Brushfield Street gate, was the domain of those in their first term. It was equipped with sand tray, water tray, clay, painting equipment (including red aprons made of rubber ranged on hooks under a window), pasting equipment, roleplay post office, complete with a real black Bakelite telephone, toys, bricks, etc.  The adjoining classroom was accessed via an interconnecting door and was equipped with books and more formal teaching aids.

 

As I was only just four when I arrived, I spent three terms in the first classroom. During that time, I watched new faces arrive at the beginning of the first two terms. They were older than I. After a term, they moved onto the next room and more new faces arrived. Eventually, in September of 1962, my contemporaries arrived. That is when I should have begun, instead of which I'd been kicking my heels and was bored out of my wits for nine months. Hence all the screaming and kicking at the school gate each morning.  Nine months goes like the blink of an eye to me these days. Then, it was an eternity.

[PeverilPeril 3,171]

There was a Mr Skillbeck teaching senior boys when I was there C1950.

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

I think this woman is a bit young to be his wife.  I'll wait to see whether anyone else comes up with that name before I take it too seriously.

[letsavagoo 833]

Jill has found 2 Berridge photos and asked me to upload them here. This is the first of them. Top infants 1965/6

 

 

[letsavagoo 833]

Second for Jill. 1968\9. Teacher Mr Chandler.

[siddha 801]

First one.  A very lovely picture capturing something of those times. Ties, ladybird shirts, nhs specs, one black child in forty, hope and anticipation for the future.

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

Thanks to letsavagoo for posting these. Children born between September 1958 and July 1959. This was the year below me. I can't name many, except Ian Humphreys, first photo front row extreme right and second photo middle row standing, second from the right. Stephanie Heason, first photo, third row back, 7th from the left. Second photo, front row seated, 2nd from the left. Second photo taken in the junior playground in 1968/9, first photo taken in the playground on the corner of Berridge Road and Brushfield Street in 1965/6.

[Cliff Ton 10,004]

Re: the first photo.

 

A feature of school photos from that era (it definitely applies to Clifton) is that there's usually at least one boy wearing a bow tie.

[Jill Sparrow 9,662]

Little boys wore bow ties on elastic, usually. The girls would grab the bow, pull it as far from the boy's neck as possible and then let it go. Two things would generally result: the bow snapped back, often hitting the boy in the face or, the elastic snapped! Great fun.

 

My father sometimes wore a bow tie (not the elasticated variety) when I was a child. He had several dark paisley versions. They looked rather smart.

[philmayfield 5,503]

The only time I wore a bow tie was with a dinner jacket. I always cheated and had a clip on one. No matter how I tried I could never manage to tie a proper one. I’ve not been to a formal dinner in years and gave my dinner suit to our son. Do they still hold ‘black tie’ events?

[LizzieM 9,272]

You’re obviously not mixing in the right circles any more Phil, my husband and kids  have to get their DJs out of moth balls at least twice a year.  

[philmayfield 5,503]

I’ve been a ‘non person’ since I retired. I don’t get invited to functions anymore. I don’t think I would accept if I were asked anyway, I’d have to buy new gear!

It’s strange how business ‘friends’ desert you when you’re not lining their pockets. 

[MargieH 7,423]

@Jill Sparrow tormenting little boys’ with elastic bow ties reminds me of the annoying habit that boys at my secondary school had - pinging the bra strap of the girl who was as sitting in front of them!!! 
@philmayfield I officially invite you to the next Nottstalgia function’ - certainly no formal dress code