What school did you go to?

[scouserdave]

I went to Boaler St, New Hutte, Colwell and West Derby Comp. Our headmaster at West Derby was Tom Saunders (http://www.lfcbootroom.net/saunders.htm) who was also the manager of Liverpool and England schoolboys footy teams. He went on to become Youth Development Officer with Liverpool FC.

[A.D.W]

Out Lane in Woolton and Hillfoot Comp in Hunts Cross. Fine schools that made me into the man I am today.

:)

[theninesisters]

Childwall C of E Primary School and then St Margaret's Aiggy Road.

I had some right laughs in St Mags!

[scouserdave]

Out Lane in Woolton and Hillfoot Comp in Hunts Cross. Fine schools that made me into the man I am today.

:)
They have a lot to answer for Dave!:unibrow:

[A.D.W]

They have a lot to answer for Dave!:unibrow:

:Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

Well said indeed, Dave!

:)

[scouserdave]

I loved Mr Craine (can one write that without sounding gayish?:unibrow:), our French teacher at West Derby Comp which is probably why I love France so much. Apart from Paris obviously. Horrible people:PDT_Xtremez_12:

[A.D.W]

I loved Mr Craine (can one write that without sounding gayish?:unibrow:),

No.

:)

[scouserdave]

No.

:)
Pee off Dave!:)

[Kev]

Garston C of E - St. Margies

[shytalk]

Gateacre C of E, Gilmour Springwood. Danefield Rd., The Bluecoat Grammar School, Riversdale.
:037:
And since I came to the USA Mid Florida Tech. on updating courses.

[sweetpatooti]

Garston C of E - headmaster Mr Howe (fab)
Quarry Bank Comp - headmaster Mr Pobjoy (an absolute legend with no equal)

[Motorhemp]

Park View Juniors and Roby Comp.

[PhilipG]

Bury Road and Acre Lane.

Where? I hear you say.

Birkdale and Bromborough.

[robbo176]

Webster Rd infants then Dove Street infants
Tiber St Juniors
& Paddington Comp which I hated & sagged for most of my time there:ninja:

[bobbymac]

Roscoe Ballantyne infs and juniors. Roscoe Garsefield seniors. A real school of 'hard knocks'. lol. George Robinson of 'Cryin'shames went there also. :Colorz_Grey_PDT_16:

[ChrisGeorge]

Dovedale Primary School

Rose Lane (Morrison) Secondary Modern

Quarry Bank High School

I have a very dim memory that I may have been very briefly in Duncombe Road Primary School in Garston before we moved from Lynas Gardens off Darby Road to Bromley Avenue off Greenbank Road and I attended Dovedale. Hmmmm, have to ask me owld Mum about that. . .

Chris

[ChrisGeorge]

Garston C of E - headmaster Mr Howe (fab)
Quarry Bank Comp - headmaster Mr Pobjoy (an absolute legend with no equal)


Agree 100% about Mr Pobjoy, a great Head and a really nice man as I recall. :celb (23):

Chris

[Max]

Lidderdale for a little bit, then Pleasant Street(the old building) and onto Morrison Primary which Is now Greenbank Primary(also Lidderdale Is now part of It). Finally Calderstones.

Glad Schools over hated Calderstones the most though and I'd flip the finger at certain teachers from there If they said hello. I never walked out of classes till I went to Calderstones.

The schools were full of cowards who would ever touch me on their own.

[Kev]

Garston C of E - headmaster Mr Howe (fab)


i remember him :)

[victorialush]

I went to Bootle High School.

[SteH]

Rudston and Blue Coat. Left 18 years ago but loads of teachers still at Blue Coat and I believe my primary teacher from 1980-1 is still in rudston

[scouserdave]

Webster Rd infants then Dove Street infants
Tiber St Juniors
& Paddington Comp which I hated & sagged for most of my time there:ninja:
We used to have some huge rucks with the lads from Paddy's in the 70s.

[Auszi]

I started of as a little un at Leamington Road in Norris Green.
On to Croxteth C.P and then Abbotsford Road.
The last one was West Derby Tech.I started there on the day it first opened.
What a s*** of a school that was.The headmaster was Alf Casson who we christened The Bat cos that's what he looked like walking through the place with his black gown flowing.

Aus.:037:

[MissInformed]

I went to Our Lady of Mount Carmel Primary, and then we moved to West Kirby, so I went to Black Horse Hill Primary....and then we moved back (are you keeping up?) so I went to Dovedale Primary....

Then I went to Bellerive FCJ...which used to be St Mary's...

[stanley]

i went to highfield comp that great center of learning 71-76 anyone remember it???

[MarkA]

Gillmoss County Primary, Cardinal Allen Grammar and De La Salle Grammar

[ScouseLad]

Boaler Street for me, then off to St Margret's in Aigburth.

It was a shame when they demolished Boaler Street school - had fond memories of the school. I hope they filled in the swimming pool in the basement before they started building on the site :)

[Gnomie]

Our Lady Of The Assumption all me school life. senior school was awful.

[Tups]

I went to Boaler St, New Hutte, Colwell and West Derby Comp. Our headmaster at West Derby was Tom Saunders (http://www.lfcbootroom.net/saunders.htm) who was also the manager of Liverpool and England schoolboys footy teams. He went on to become Youth Development Officer with Liverpool FC.


my brother went to West Derby too.. he started in 1967.. had a year in Quarry Rd then to the other site.. think he left 1971 or 72

[Tups]

I started at Florence Melly, then we moved to Stoneycroft and went to Lister Drive primary, then Childwall Valley High.. sadly I don't think any of these school are still standing .. I know Childwall Valley is now a housing estate and I think Flo Smelly was rebuilt elsewhere.

[Bunnyman]

St Oswalds C of E, and Bootle High, both in Netherton.

[Ged]

Bishop Goss primary (also known as St. Joseph's) then onto St. Gregory's, one either side of Great Homer Street.

[Paul D]

St Teresas in Croxteth and then on to De la Salle when they merged.

[victorialush]

St Oswalds C of E, and Bootle High, both in Netherton.


I used to live by St Oswalds.... I went to the Grange County Primary School though...
How old are you? I went to Bootle High School too.

[Bunnyman]

24. :) Used to live in Frederick Banting Close. Bit of a dump around there now. Do you know Colin Burgess or Alan Creevy? They'd be around your age I think. Also, a band called 'Chase the Ace'. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[victorialush]

24. :) Used to live in Frederick Banting Close. Bit of a dump around there now. Do you know Colin Burgess or Alan Creevy? They'd be around your age I think. Also, a band called 'Chase the Ace'. :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Oh God.. I know Colin Burgess... and the lead singer of Chase the Ace (My mate used to fancy him :)).. they went on Going Live didn't they?
I lived in Lunar Drive... had mates all over Fred Banting, Marie Curie etc

[gilly10]

I went to Archbishop Whiteside, which changed to St. Brigids in 1982. Our head at "Archie" was a very fair bloke called Mr. McCahy, and the deputy head was a Mr. Connolly, who was a really tough, but very fair man, who was also as wise as he was austere!! Wish I was back there now!! :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[peewak]

I went to Corinthian county primary 1979-86 then West Derby comprehensive 1986-91 and the 6th form at west derby comp

[Max]

We used to have some huge rucks with the lads from Paddy's in the 70s.

Did you win any?:PDT10

[PhilipG]

Is there anybody else whose prepared to admit that they didn't go to school in Liverpool?
I'm beginning to feel like a foreigner. :)

[tricia w]

I went to Belle vale infants school first ,then went To Our Lady Of The Assumption School till 1962 (when I was there i Prefered to go to the lunch time sessions in the Cavern):shock:

[chippie]

hello each, just popped in on your school conversation. I went to a mouthful called Prince Rupert Sec. Mod. Sch. for Boys, but we all called it Margie, short for Margaret Street where it was in Everton near to Mill Road Hospital, anyone know it?:PDT10

[Ged]

Yeah, we used to go to Margie Street Baths with our school. Freezin' it was.

[SteveFaragher]

I went to Wade Deacon there was a demarcation between scousers (huyton and halewood) and the woolybacks widnes and great sankey people.

There were defo two factions there.

[john]

So you went to the Wad in Widnes, so where about do you live?

http://www.wadedeacon.co.uk/page_viewer.asp?section=Home&sid=1

So did this guy
http://www.derektwigg.org.uk/sect1/

[scouserdave]

Chippie/Ged, Margie Baths was my local when I lived in Hughes St. Where I first learned to swim. Anyone used to play in nearby Grant Gardens?

[scouserdave]

I don't think I've posted this before. Boaler St Infants Class photie.
Any guesses where I am?:)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/scouserdave/bolaer.jpg

[sweetpatooti]

Front row - fourth from left......



just kidding

Back row - fifth from left?

[Brenda]

second row far right sitting on a stool.

[scouserdave]

Front row - fourth from left......



just kidding

Back row - fifth from left?
LOL!
We do look similar. That's the one....Back row - fifth from left (or right), I mean!

Thanks Brenda, that little lad looks such an angel:nod:

[Fergie]

Went to Outr Ladys Eldon Street,Our Ladys Titchfield Street then St Teresas Norris Green then to Brookfield Comp in Kirkby in 1956 till i left in 1958 .
Fergie

[stan]

Broadgreen Juniors,Rice lane Juniors then Alsop.Hated Alsop.

[billo]

Broadgreen Juniors,Rice lane Juniors then Alsop.Hated Alsop.


If you were at Alsop at the same time as The Baz. then I can understand you not likeing it

[stan]

84-90

[billo]

84-90

Stan., lots of old boys here, some older than others '67-70
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/alsop/

[Gnomie]

I don't think I've posted this before. Boaler St Infants Class photie.
Any guesses where I am?:)

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y40/scouserdave/bolaer.jpg

Brilliant photo:handclap:

[scouserdave]

Thanks Gnomie. Here's one of the classroom. I'm the one in the upper right.

http://www.liverpoolpictorial.co.uk/boaler2.jpg

[ALI]

I went to Holy Angels infants and St Gregorys both in Kirkby

[birdseye]

Anybody out there who went to St James The Less Primary in Boundary St? It backed on to Atholl Street police station and was demolished in the 1960s. Be delighted with any information on the school.

[Kev]

My dad went to Harrison Jones.

[Steven]

I went to St. Vincent's in Pitt Street and then to St. Pats.

[bazzacat]

Is there anybody else whose prepared to admit that they didn't go to school in Liverpool?
I'm beginning to feel like a foreigner. :)

er well, here goes...

St Edmunds RC Primary, Calne, Wiltshire
Andersons Primary, Forres, Morayshire
Abbeylands Primary, Kinloss, Morayshire
Cheshire Middle School, RAF Bruggen, Germany
Kent School, Hostert, Germany
Wootton Bassett Comp, Wiltshire
Queens School, JHQ Rheindahlen, Germany

I think thats as foreign as it gets!

[Gnomie]

My dad went to St Anthonys Scotland Road

Then St Patricks Park Road.

[Gnomie]

I have my dads school leaving report.

and my Nans for St Bridgets ( bootle ) in 1926.

[Steven]

After I left St. Pats i went to a very good school ( It was Approved, you know?)

[Max]

Before Morrison which Is Now Greenbank Primary, I went to the Original Pleasant street I was In a language unit and left Lidderdale(now part of Greenbank too) to go there.

[Scanner]

I went to St.Annes Overbury Street from infants to leaving school.

[Ebby1954]

Banks Road. Miss Lacy was the headmistress. After Banks Rd School was bombed we had teachers come out and teach us for 2 to 3 hours per day at different homes in the neighbourhood. After almost 2 years of very little schooling most of us from Banks Rd where sent to Duncombe Rd school. I absolutely hated it, the headmistrees was a woman named Miss Baldwin, just seemed like she was not happy accepting all the extra kid's from Banks Rd, she was a little hard on us. Duncombe Rd School was an all-girl school, really missed Banks Rd.

[Norm NZ]

Banks Road. Miss Lacy was the headmistress. After Banks Rd School was bombed we had teachers come out and teach us for 2 to 3 hours per day at different homes in the neighbourhood. After almost 2 years of very little schooling most of us from Banks Rd where sent to Duncombe Rd school. I absolutely hated it, the headmistrees was a woman named Miss Baldwin, just seemed like she was not happy accepting all the extra kid's from Banks Rd, she was a little hard on us. Duncombe Rd School was an all-girl school, really missed Banks Rd.

I remember that time also with mixed feelings!! Remember having lessons in various peoples homes when the school was bombed! :handclap:

[birdseye]

I went to St Charles on Aigburth Road. We were in the annexe which was an old Victorian house called South Grange, which stood where St Charles parish club is now. The building was falling down around our ears and eventually we moved into what had been the Rivoli cinema next door. All the seats got cleared out and partitions were set up to divide it into classes. At playtime we went down into the basement where the snooker hall had been.

[chippie]

Yes Scoucerdave, I knocked around Grants Gardens and the Margaret Street area in general, that was the good old days.:PDT_Xtremez_42: I did have a school photo but my printer can,t put them onto my computer for some reason

[chippie]

Oh I,ve found the school photo but it,s Heyworth Street juniors instead. Where am I?

[chippie]

found it scoucerdave, which one am I?

[Silverbuttons]

I went to Sudley Infants (Mrs Powell was head) and Juniors (Miss Underwood) then St Hilda's. (Mr Dawson then Mr Yates.)

My dad taught in Orrell and Christ Church in Bootle. He also coached the Bootle boys footy club. My mum taught at Toxteth, Dovedale and is now at St Pats.

[Liverpool Logan]

l went to
Stocktonwood road infants. can't remember Head.
St Ambrose Speke. juniors Mr Lennon. Head, nice guy
Blessed John Almond. Horrocks avenue. Garston seniors. Mr McGarvey head great guy
Sister Gertrude (gobble gobble gerty as she was known)
Hated senior school. spent most of my time down oggy shore
Pam

[verdi]

I went to St Cleopas and have copies of all the registers giving birthdates aand middle names!! blackmail material. then onto Wellington Road (Welly) boys school. Then out into the school of life, Still learning !!!: :PDT11

[Lady]

Hiya,:)
I went to S.F.X infants and juniors, then onto St Gregs,they where the best years of my life, the 60s and 70s..........And the teachers where great too !!:rolleyes:
Jacky :)

[gorgeous]

Hiya Everyone .
I went to good old Tiber St , (I think it was Mr Bath who was head.) as did my dad , aunties uncles & cousins , & we all lived next door to each other in Tiber St , Then moved to Suddley Rd , actually on Aigburth Rd, Mr Curl was the head ,Then Quarry Bank Mr Pobjoy & Mr williams aka Waff ., Tesco's is now built on the school wing i started in , Moved house yet again ! & another school ! went to Formby High , detested it & Formby we all moved back to Liverpool yipee & i spent my last 2 yrs at Quarry Bank again , Harthill Rd , ( Calderstones) Still live in Liverpool , moved house 28 times , but all over Liverpool currently in Mossley Hill , gone all posh !! lol

brill website

[robbo176]

Hiya Everyone .
I went to good old Tiber St , (I think it was Mr Bath who was head.) as did my dad , aunties uncles & cousins , & we all lived next door to each other in Tiber St , Then moved to Suddley Rd , actually on Aigburth Rd, Mr Curl was the head ,Then Quarry Bank Mr Pobjoy & Mr williams aka Waff ., Tesco's is now built on the school wing i started in , Moved house yet again ! & another school ! went to Formby High , detested it & Formby we all moved back to Liverpool yipee & i spent my last 2 yrs at Quarry Bank again , Harthill Rd , ( Calderstones) Still live in Liverpool , moved house 28 times , but all over Liverpool currently in Mossley Hill , gone all posh !! lol

brill website

Hi gorgeous
Welcome
what years did you go to Tiber St, I was there from about 1977-1980

Mandy :)

[Kev]

Hi gorgeous :PDT11

[gorgeous]

Hiya Mandy ,
God i was leaving secondary school as you where starting Tiber , lol
I loved the school though i'll always remember a Miss Stirk who played the guitar . & those big sliding doors connecting the classrooms ,We only lived a few doors away from the school , thought Tiber was a brilliant community ,

[chippie]

Are there any classmates out there that went to Stockbridge Lane School. I was there for a short spell in 1962. I had my sister Barbara at the same school and a friend who,s name I can,t recall at the moment, I can recall my sister,s name of course. :disgust:

[chippie]

My first job from school was a television and electrical shop in Edge Lane. I would take the shutters down, yes even in 1967, clean the doorway and open up for business. I worked 6 and a half days a week including Saturdays, my favourite day when I,d be watching Doctor Who before I closed up shop to walk home to Desmond Street, off Breck Rd and Heyworth St. I got five pounds commission once for my part in selling a radiogramme. My part was locking the door until the customer bought the set:rolleyes:

[chippie]

Does anybody remember the time when there was a mass phenomenon about aliens landing in Wavertree I think it was. there was a rumour going around many schools at the time that a vehicle had landed and that aliens had taken over a derelict house. It was in the local papers at the time. I went along one night for a look see and was convinced that I saw it, them, looking out from an upstairs window. There were hundreds of us schoolies around peering over at the house. What a buzz that was at the time:shock: :ninja: :ninja: :shock:

You,ll be miffed at seeing my fizzocg here three times in a row. But it,s all about community.:hug:

[Lady]

Hi Chippie,

I hope you can remember your sisters name, :eek: :eek:

You have just had me in bulk laughing at your next to last post,:)

Jacky :PDT11

[chippie]

Hello Lady, I was in bulk writing it and watching other people logging on:)
I must be bored staying on for so long, mind you I haven,t taken my medication for awhile:shock: Have a good laugh lady, it clears yer chuckle muscle:rolleyes:

[ChrisGeorge]

Hi folks

I went to Quarry Bank High School (now part of Calderstones Comprehensive) in 1965-1967. The following pen and ink drawing with was done by me while in art class at the school. A pic I took more recently of the gateposts of Strawberry Fields is stuck in the right lower corner of the frame. I had previously posted this photograph in a Beatles thread but thought to post it here now.

While I went to the school, the headmaster was Mr W. E. Pobjoy who had been head while John Lennon went to the school in the Fifties (as most of you will know, the Beatles were originally called "The Quarrymen" and the group at that time contained John's mate Pete Shotton and other pals, before Paul and the others joined up). Mr Pobjoy was an unusual head for his day in opposing corporal punishment.

Chris

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/134/406598086_4d75fa7135_b.jpg

[Ged]

Does anybody remember the time when there was a mass phenomenon about aliens landing in Wavertree I think it was. there was a rumour going around many schools at the time that a vehicle had landed and that aliens had taken over a derelict house. It was in the local papers at the time. I went along one night for a look see and was convinced that I saw it, them, looking out from an upstairs window. There were hundreds of us schoolies around peering over at the house. What a buzz that was at the time:shock: :ninja: :ninja: :shock:

You,ll be miffed at seeing my fizzocg here three times in a row. But it,s all about community.:hug:

I believe one is still there in god's own land Chippie :unibrow:

[chippie]

No Ged, Max doesn,t live there anymore.:ninja:

Only jocking Max, honest:rolleyes:

[robbo176]

Hiya Mandy ,
God i was leaving secondary school as you where starting Tiber , lol
I loved the school though i'll always remember a Miss Stirk who played the guitar . & those big sliding doors connecting the classrooms ,We only lived a few doors away from the school , thought Tiber was a brilliant community ,
Hi Gorgeous
Miss Stirk was still there when I went, she taught me to play the guitar although she was left handed & used to play the guitar upside down
:PDT11

Mandy :)

[chippie]

I bet that went down well at the dockers club:unibrow:

[robbo176]

I bet that went down well at the dockers club:unibrow:

I meant ,well you know what I meant:PDT10 :PDT11

Mandy

[shytalk]

Chippie, Was that Powells television shop you worked at?

[EdF]

Winstone Road Infants, Dovecot
Stonefield Road Junior, Dovecot
Evered Ave, 1947/49
Toxteth Tech, 1949/1951

Then to College Of Technology, Byrom Street. (1 day/week) 1951/57
(Now part of John Moores University.

[Steven]

St. Pat's school for the totally bewildered.

[chippie]

Yes it was WILLIAM STANLEY POWELL,s shop. Did you know it?

[Ged]

No but he knows NORMAN STANLEY FLETCHER well. :unibrow:

[chippie]

Ah Ged, his cell by date is up:rolleyes:

[shytalk]

Yes it was WILLIAM STANLEY POWELL,s shop. Did you know it?

A mate worked there in about 1963. We bought a radiogram there.

[chippie]

Hi ShyTalk, I joined in 1967 I did meet the bloke who used to work there, forgot his name but he was a big strapping lad who looked like he could lift two tellys up in each hand, not sure whether his name may have been Stanley:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[shytalk]

Hi ShyTalk, I joined in 1967 I did meet the bloke who used to work there, forgot his name but he was a big strapping lad who looked like he could lift two tellys up in each hand, not sure whether his name may have been Stanley:PDT_Aliboronz_24:

Nah, this fella wasn't very big his name was Albert.

[Cloggie]

I went to Lister Drive (1950's)......I'm the very far right, second row
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c243/Porleen/scan0002-1.jpg

Then to Bankfield Girls (1960's)......back row 3rd from right
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c243/Porleen/scan0003-1.jpg

[gorgeous]

Hi Mandy ,
God your only right , she did play the guitar up sidedown , lol As a kid i was fasinated , i remember going to the after school club & getting a 1d oxo drink , loved it at the time lol ,couldn't drink it now to save my life.

Mr Pobjoy Rocks !! (Quarry Bank)


Chippie thanks for your help , xx

[shytalk]

Cloggie gerl, I checked you out with your pic on your avatar, you haven't changed a bit.:037:

[naked lilac]

Hi ya Cloggie.. You sure looked cute.. You reminded me of myself in the older pic...thanks for sharing...

[xkopite]

Hiya
Webster Road till 1964 then Brookfield Comp in Kirkby till 1969
Very fond memorys of Webster Rd with Mr.Bradley class teacher on 2 occasions.
One day a week going on the corpy bus to Calderstones Park for our afternoon sports.
Also remember the swimming pool getting built in the basement.
Sign of getting old this is, have to keep popping the pills.

[robbo176]

I only went to Webster Rd School for about a year when I was 5 so I can,t remember much about it
I went & had a look today but it has been knocked down:PDT_Xtremez_12:

Mandy :)

[xkopite]

Yep Webster Road was knocked down about 5 years ago or a bit less.
My daughter went there for a short time.
I have seen such a change the area since I lived there.

[lindylou]

My old school. It's had so many names; I think it was originally called 'Anfield Girls school', then in later years, when my mum went there, the name was changed to 'Stanley park secondary school ' it was an all girls school but at some point they moved the boys in.
In the 1960s the boys were moved out and into a new building in Breckside Park. The boys school was Anfield Comprehensive'.

When I went to seniors it was girls only and called 'Stanley park Comprehensive'

After I'd left it was changed to 'Anfield Comp', then yet again another change to 'Priory Community school' (or something like that). They had moved the boys back in by then. They had demolished the boys' comp - for what reason it was demolished I don't know 'cos it was a good building with good facilities and nothing wrong with it.

Why couldn't they just leave it alone as Stanley Park ?? (which it was known as for the longest).
That's not the end of it .. it is now known as the ' NORTH LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'
I'm sure there isn't another school with so many name changes.

[Strider]

Just joined the forum so not sure how things work.

I went to King David's as a infant and then to Dovedale CP throughout the juniors. Ended up at Hillfoot Hey - leaving in the summer of 1976.

My youngest son went to St Margaret's and one of his teachers had been my teacher in Dovedale. I only found this out when the teacher reocognised me 30 years later at a parent/teacher evening.

[Kev]

Hi and a warm welcome :PDT11. Take your time - I' sure it all looks like a minefield at the moment..

Kev

[SteH]

My old school. It's had so many names; I think it was originally called 'Anfield Girls school', then in later years, when my mum went there, the name was changed to 'Stanley park secondary school ' it was an all girls school but at some point they moved the boys in.
In the 1960s the boys were moved out and into a new building in Breckside Park. The boys school was Anfield Comprehensive'.

When I went to seniors it was girls only and called 'Stanley park Comprehensive'

After I'd left it was changed to 'Anfield Comp', then yet again another change to 'Priory Community school' (or something like that). They had moved the boys back in by then. They had demolished the boys' comp - for what reason it was demolished I don't know 'cos it was a good building with good facilities and nothing wrong with it.

Why couldn't they just leave it alone as Stanley Park ?? (which it was known as for the longest).
That's not the end of it .. it is now known as the ' NORTH LIVERPOOL ACADEMY'
I'm sure there isn't another school with so many name changes.


I understand its moving too the site of the old Breckfield school on Hamilton Road as well when that's rebuilt.

[lindylou]

Yes, It should have been built ages ago but protesters have held up progress. In fact progress is the wrong word - it hasn't even begun. :disgust:

Breckfield (the old John Hamilton) have been moved into the Priory rd school; both schools have been merged to form North Liverpool Academy. They should have been in a brand new state of the art building .. but instead the pupils & techers are struggling along in an over crowded, decaying and ill equipped school :disgust:
I was talking to one of the teachers last week who told me that some science lessons are restricted because of lack of space and facilities.

The protesters are stopping our local kids from having a good education in a new school. :angry:

[eddie french]

Banks Road. I remember my first day. The song 'Little White Dove' seemed to be playing??
Then St. Ambrose (Speke)
Cardinal Newman (By the Fiveways) Yeah.. I passed the 11 plus and got a bus pass!

[Jackie]

I started at Florence Melly, then we moved to Stoneycroft and went to Lister Drive primary, then Childwall Valley High.. sadly I don't think any of these school are still standing .. I know Childwall Valley is now a housing estate and I think Flo Smelly was rebuilt elsewhere.

Happy to say I live around the corner from Florence Melly School. The original school was knocked down about two years ago but was rebuilt with a more modern design the same year keeping its original name

[Steven]

I went to St. Patrick's school for the totally bewildered in Park Road.

[Jackie]

Did anyone out there go to Ranworth Square in Norris Green. I remember the year that it burned down, we could see it on fire from our bedroom window and i remember thinking great i wont have to go to school. I also went to Ellergreen Comp which i think was renamed Abbotsford Road.

[Steven]

Did anyone out there go to Ranworth Square in Norris Green. I remember the year that it burned down, we could see it on fire from our bedroom window and i remember thinking great i wont have to go to school. I also went to Ellergreen Comp which i think was renamed Abbotsford Road.


I had some good friends who went to Flo Melly, Jackie.

[Gnomie]

I went to St. Patrick's school for the totally bewildered in Park Road.

My dad went there(seniors, St Anthonys for the juniors)

so did my aunty and uncles.:)

[Steven]

We are probably all related. Most of us were from the King Gardens area.:PDT11

[Jackie]

I had some good friends who went to Flo Melly, Jackie.

Hia Ste did your friends live in the Florence Melly Estate?

[pasha]

i went to st cuthberts junior school, and then st agnes girls school broadgreen road.
i think i was at st cuthberts when the bull/cow escaped out of the abbatouir
does any one remember it? what year was it?
debbie

[lottie]

Is there anybody else whose prepared to admit that they didn't go to school in Liverpool?
I'm beginning to feel like a foreigner. :)

Hiya Philip, i didn't go to school in Liverpool, only moved here 10 years ago, my schools (i moved around a lot) are as follows:

Star Lane Primary-London
Abbotsford Primary-Glasgow
Adelphi Secondary School-Glasgow
Eastlea Comprehensive-London

[Georgec]

After11-plus went to St Edwards.

[goldenface]

I went to St. Patrick's school for the totally bewildered in Park Road.

I went to St Pats' nursery, infants, Juniors then St Martins on Upper Hill Street and finally St John Almond in Garston.

:)

[kat2]

I went to Legat Russian Ballet school residential school *lol* we were called the Royal Rejects *sobs* as it was just down the road from the royal ballet school.
kat:rolleyes:

[queentutti]

Here is my list..lol
Webster Road for a few weeks
Parkhill Road -Dingle
St Malachys - Park Street
St John Almonds - Garston
Then I went to Bellerive FCJ...which used to be St Mary's... - Ullett Road

[robbo176]

Here is my list..lol
Webster Road for a few weeks
Parkhill Road -Dingle
St Malachys - Park Street
St John Almonds - Garston
Then I went to Bellerive FCJ...which used to be St Mary's... - Ullett Road

I went to Webster Rd too,I went back a few months ago to take some photos but it had been knocked down :disgust:

[Ged]

Yet you never went there when it was up :unibrow:

[robbo176]

Yet you never went there when it was up :unibrow:

I did go there,I didn't start saggin' til senior school :PDT10

[Ged]

You didn't start WHAT? :)

[queentutti]

Its a shame they have to pull schools down, even worse that they do nothing with the land.

[scouse mouse]

Its a shame they have to pull schools down, even worse that they do nothing with the land.

I went to Upper Park Street in the Dingle as a kid and I always said that next time when I went back home I'd go back there and visit the place again, but I always put it off and then finally when I did go I found that they'd knocked it down just a few months before.

[robbo176]

my schools Webster Rd ,Dove St & Tiber St all have been demolished & I only found out when I went to take photos of them
also all the houses I've ever lived in have also been demolished so I can never take my kids there & say I lived there or I went to that school
maybe I'm a jinx :shock:

[queentutti]

2 of my schools have been pulled down. Maybe its a sign of getting old...lol

[drone_pilot]

try this link for your old school photies

http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com/

its in america but found one of me in a few seconds.

[lottie]

my schools Webster Rd ,Dove St & Tiber St all have been demolished & I only found out when I went to take photos of them
also all the houses I've ever lived in have also been demolished so I can never take my kids there & say I lived there or I went to that school
maybe I'm a jinx :shock:


Hi, Mandy, Sad all your schools have been knocked down. None of mine have, my first school, Star Lane, London, my niece goes to ( i went there 1970). My scond school, Abbotsford, Glasgow, my grandad went to in the 1920's. My 3rd school, Adelphi, Glasgow, my dad went to in the 1950's and Eastlea, London, my son went to as will my neice. Abbotsford is now flats and Adelphi a centre of some sort.

[Ged]

Being a younger member, mine are still up too :PDT10

[lottie]

Being a younger member, mine are still up too :PDT10

I'm not a "younger member" lol

[robbo176]

Its got nothing to do with being a "younger member", in the olden days they built things to last :PDT10

[Ged]

Ha ha, I asked for that didn't I.

[Georgec]

try this link for your old school photies

http://www.worldschoolphotographs.com/

its in america but found one of me in a few seconds.

That's actually very good :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Ged]

I don't ever remember needing to shave at such a young age, it's funny how the mists of time cloud things over.

[wsteve55]

hi ged,
just got your 2nd book, where you mention your school,st.Greg's,and various teachers, specifically mr.Crowley, who's son i went to school with!Your image of him with the cane,and keys,in reception, was pretty terrifying, but he always seemed a nice enough guy, when i was at thier house, and i always thought it was amusing that his son couldn't tell the time:unibrow: i went to the youth club a couple of times,(about '67,'68) but dont remember anyone's names, except pat gandy, for some reason, and a guy who's nickname was"beaky"! One memory i do have, is of the the girls in the youth club screaming in horror, when Robin Gibb,of the Bee Gees, started singing "massachusets" on "Top of the Pops", every time it was on:eek: In the book, you mention that mr.Crowley had a brother/clone? Was this really his brother? I also remember the rover car well! Great book,must get volume 3.
steve.

[Ged]

Hiya wsteve55. Thanks for that. There was an Arthur Vincent Crowley and his younger bro. I only found out quite recently that Mr Crowley senior was apparently quite a rugby player in his day and played Rugby and won honours though i've not looked into it any further. His singing voice resounded all over the assembly hall - Christius Vinschit, Christius Renoit or something like that anyway - all latin to me.

One had a brown Rover, the other, the same model in white. They were alright really looking back, if you had little to do with them that is. I remember someone drawing mammary glands on the cover of my lyric book to Joseph & his technicolour dreamcoat which we were rehearsing and he spotted it. I got the cane for not snitching (it wasn't grassing then) on the little toerag that done it because I wouldn't snap my arrow bar in half. I later changed that porn into a face lol.

Where did they live, was it a leafy suburb, I always imagined so.

[chippie]

Thank you Drone Pilot for that. I forgot I was in the same class as Gerard and Ged. lol :hug:

[wsteve55]

Hi ged,
you're right about the leafy suburb, Crosby actually, where as far as i know, he still lives, though things may have changed, as it must be 8/9 yrs since i saw him, and his 74th birthday was coming up!?! His lad became a butcher!!:unibrow:

[Bevy]

I went to Northway Primary/Juniors and Highfield Senior's or Broadgreen is it called now?

I Guess they were ok:PDT11

[jon_hall]

I went to Northway, however mine was in Maghull. Left Maghull at six and a half and followed my dads work round the country.

From leaving Maghull and turning seven, i was in my third different place in six months :shock:

[ladyhawk]

Went to holy angels infant school kirby then to St Teresas near the strand in norris green from there went to st Teresa's in utting avenue,Sister Gabrial was head in junior school she was nice .
Miss ready maths teacher in senior school, also had many fun days at
Colomendy

[BillS]

I went to Banks Road in Garston and then on to Hillfoot Hey (Mr Dunn then Mr Pomfret were heads ) Great school now demolished unfortunately.

[John(Zappa)]

Ranworth county primary (Loved it):handclap:
Ellergreen comp (got to hate it):PDT10

[kevin]

St Christophers - Speke
Blessed John Almond - Garston.
All Hallows - Speke.
North-East Liverpool Tech.

[Steven]

Think I did this a long time ago. I went to St. Patrick's for the totally bewildered.

[Gnomie]

Think I did this a long time ago. I went to St. Patrick's for the totally bewildered.

Steven is that St Pats Park Road?

Me dad went there :)

also some other family members the Graleys

[Steven]

Steven is that St Pats Park Road?

Me dad went there :)

also some other family members the Graleys

It's not often yer wong 'our kid' but yer right again. St. Pat's School was just behind Park Road in Hyslop Street. I probably know yer dad.

[Ap1shooter]

I went to St Pats' nursery, infants, Juniors then St Martins on Upper Hill Street and finally St John Almond in Garston.

:)

Exactly my route also
Do you remember Mr Burns (Headmaster) and Bob Nolan (teacher) St Martins
He once told us each and everyone of you will either work on the Docks or at Camel Lairds.. Im Glad I proved how wrong he was.
Only ones I can really remember from St John's is Mr Collinson ( Frolly) and the Infamous Sister Gertrude and Sister Anne..... Gertie was one of the most sadistic people I have had the misfortune to come across in my life. constantly walked around with a cane under her habit.
She could use the cane better than Zoro could use his sword.

[kevin]

Exactly my route also
Do you remember Mr Burns (Headmaster) and Bob Nolan (teacher) St Martins
He once told us each and everyone of you will either work on the Docks or at Camel Lairds.. Im Glad I proved how wrong he was.
Only ones I can really remember from St John's is Mr Collinson ( Frolly) and the Infamous Sister Gertrude and Sister Anne..... Gertie was one of the most sadistic people I have had the misfortune to come across in my life. constantly walked around with a cane under her habit.
She could use the cane better than Zoro could use his sword.


Five years behind me but spot on.
Collinson was known as Collywobbles - really nice man who struggled to deal with the rougher kids.
Gertie - my mum would never believe what a monster she was until my sister started work, as a nursery nurse, at the kids home Gertie also ran. Tales of violent abuse were common.
How about Mr McGarvey (head - lovely man who saw good in everyone), Mr Galea (Maths - another sadistic *******), Miss Dunn (English), Mr Slattery )Science - hard but fair), Mrs Ahmed (Art - like a young Elisabeth Taylor).

Couple of people in my class who I remember and were from Garston. Michael Axworthy (great footballer - went to Man U then Everton but don't think he got past the youth teams), Michale Powney (another good footballer), Imelda Longhurst, Frances Fanning. Names beginning to fade now - boy I'm feeling old!

[billo]

My mother worked in St. Johns for a short while,(10 years ago or more) she was shocked by the attitude of some of the staff and never liked it there. Mine you Notre ****(sic) in Everton was not much better!

[Ap1shooter]

Five years behind me but spot on.
Collinson was known as Collywobbles - really nice man who struggled to deal with the rougher kids.
Gertie - my mum would never believe what a monster she was until my sister started work, as a nursery nurse, at the kids home Gertie also ran. Tales of violent abuse were common.
How about Mr McGarvey (head - lovely man who saw good in everyone), Mr Galea (Maths - another sadistic *******), Miss Dunn (English), Mr Slattery )Science - hard but fair), Mrs Ahmed (Art - like a young Elisabeth Taylor).

Couple of people in my class who I remember and were from Garston. Michael Axworthy (great footballer - went to Man U then Everton but don't think he got past the youth teams), Michale Powney (another good footballer), Imelda Longhurst, Frances Fanning. Names beginning to fade now - boy I'm feeling old!

Oh yes I remember Miss Ahmed:) and
Sam Mcguinness, Nice man, Sex Education lesson " To Make a baby Think of it as a Triangle...God on top..Man and woman each side, when all joined together Babies can be made" here endeth the lesson how things have changed:) Sam frequents St Bernadettes social every weekend

I was only at St Johns for a short time before I went out into the real world

[kevin]

Oh yes I remember Miss Ahmed:) and
Sam Mcguinness, Nice man, Sex Education lesson " To Make a baby Think of it as a Triangle...God on top..Man and woman each side, when all joined together Babies can be made" here endeth the lesson how things have changed:) Sam frequents St Bernadettes social every weekend

I was only at St Johns for a short time before I went out into the real world

Sex education - we had a monk come in and explain to us a process he'd obviously only read about in manuals!

:eek:

[Ap1shooter]

Sex education - we had a monk come in and explain to us a process he'd obviously only read about in manuals!

:eek:

Have often wondered if Mr Mcguinness had read some obscure manual on the subject himself:unibrow:
Possibly the manual the monk left behind
The girls had Gertie tell them so it would have been a greater mystery what she told them possibly some S&M thing:PDT11

[Devo]

I started at Blessed Sacrement in Walton Vale,
then i went to St.Bonaventures (name now changed) in cedar road, Walton Vale.
But ended up at
http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd256/devo_2004/P1000977.jpg?t=1197374150
:)

[pasha]

i went to st cuthbert,s infant school, and st agnes secondary school broadgreen road, no longer there
debbie

[bluesareus]

1950-56 Corinthian Avenue
1956-58 Walton Technical
1958-61 John Hamilton Technical
1961-66 Old Swan College :PDT11

[Mark R]

1971-77 Lister Drive

1977-82 West Derby Comp

[wxytvm]

Hi to Bobbymac of BC
I went to Roscoe Garfield 1963 - 1966. mr Bevan was the head. mr Patterson was the Maths teacher, Mr heady taught science, Mr Wilson PE. Did you know the schol is now a nursing home? Will try to send you a photo. Like the rest of Liverpool the area is changing no end. The old Salvation Army building is now a pub. The Regal picture house which later became a bingo hall has shut down completely. The junior Roscoe School is still doing well. Well nice to speak to you. All the best for the new year ...............Jay

[quincyg]

pre '71 there was a nursery in the church hall on the corner of our street. after 2 days I got my coat and walked home saying I never wanted to go back. then I was taken to one further away on Gainsborough Road and I loved it.

1971-1978 Lawrence Road Infants and Juniors

1978-1984 Holt Comprehensive

[garstonlass]

i went to banks road primary school, heaven, loved it and st hilda,s high school in ullet road, hell, hated it!!

[Lukeo25]

i went to bebington high sports college & devonshire park primary school

[Last Of The Timelords]

Higher Side Comprehensive School.

[shoney]

Sex education - we had a monk come in and explain to us a process he'd obviously only read about in manuals!

:eek:


theres a manual ?( i'm a 64 model), it's been discontinued ( the model ) a while now , I don't even think you can get the parts these days, but I reckon that theres nothing a valve grind , a rebore or a good lube can't fix to get it pumping back into action,

[Ged]

You just need rust remover and a good wire brush. ;)

[shoney]

You just need rust remover and a good wire brush. ;)

an a decent jump start

[CheshireScouse]

First time posting - can't resist!

Sudley Road CP - I was there when Mr Curl took over and it was still on North Sudley Road.

Belvedere - hated it, particularly the venomous Miss Britten.

Lister Drive - taught there from 1970 - 71. Loved every moment.

Cheshire Scouse

[Ged]

Welcome Gwyneth.

[John(Zappa)]

First time posting - can't resist!

Sudley Road CP - I was there when Mr Curl took over and it was still on North Sudley Road.

Belvedere - hated it, particularly the venomous Miss Britten.

Lister Drive - taught there from 1970 - 71. Loved every moment.

Cheshire Scouse

Welcome..Now go do the introduction thing and spill the beanz:PDT11

[Kev]

First time posting - can't resist!

Sudley Road CP - I was there when Mr Curl took over and it was still on North Sudley Road.

Belvedere - hated it, particularly the venomous Miss Britten.

Lister Drive - taught there from 1970 - 71. Loved every moment.

Cheshire Scouse

Hi CS,

A warm welcome,

Kev

[eddie french]

Oh boy...here goes.

Banks Road, then St Ambrose in Speke, St Teresa's in Norris Green for a while, then back to Speke, then Cardinal Newman (Next door to the Holt Comp.),
Then Clarence Street (Civils) Then South Cheshire College. (IT)
Taught for a year at SCC (First Year IT)
I think that's about it.
I still attend the big school of life :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[georgieboy]

Oh boy...here goes.

Banks Road, then St Ambrose in Speke, St Teresa's in Norris Green for a while, then back to Speke, then Cardinal Newman (Next door to the Holt Comp.),
Then Clarence Street (Civils) Then South Cheshire College. (IT)
Taught for a year at SCC (First Year IT)
I think that's about it.
I still attend the big school of life :PDT_Aliboronz_24: what years did you go to Cardinal Newman Iwent from 62--64 Mr Howarth was headmaster, mr bolger, mr scott, mr dupre, the gym teacher, mr walsh was my teacher

[hmtmaj]

St Oswalds Montague rd, Old Swan, til 73
then onto st Nicholas Brownlow hill til 78

Now I do feel old ! :shock:

[gynsman]

All Saints Infants (Anfield) 69/70
St. Clement's Juniors (Cantril Farm) 70-74
St. Dominic's Comprehensive (Huyton) 74-79

[eddie french]

what years did you go to Cardinal Newman Iwent from 62--64 Mr Howarth was headmaster, mr bolger, mr scott, mr dupre, the gym teacher, mr walsh was my teacher

I was a bit after you Georgieboy, but Mr Howarth was still the head, and the favourite for presenting our 'bills' to for punishment. I Started first year there in 66.

[john wallace]

Went to Earle Road Secondary and ended up in Form X. Great bunch of kids and the girls were terrific. where are they now?

[shirleya]

went to school in nelson then burnley-

[shirleya]

hi gnomie and anyone who went to st patricks. Is anyone out there who went in the sixties-and if so do they have any school photos at all to post??? 69 ish.???

[shirleya]

Just wondered if golden face had any school photos of st patricks at all???
shirley

[shirleya]

Exactly my route also
Do you remember Mr Burns (Headmaster) and Bob Nolan (teacher) St Martins
He once told us each and everyone of you will either work on the Docks or at Camel Lairds.. Im Glad I proved how wrong he was.
Only ones I can really remember from St John's is Mr Collinson ( Frolly) and the Infamous Sister Gertrude and Sister Anne..... Gertie was one of the most sadistic people I have had the misfortune to come across in my life. constantly walked around with a cane under her habit.
She could use the cane better than Zoro could use his sword.

what year did you go to st patricks then??? Any chance it could be in the sixties????

[john wallace]

Mr brummit was head of Clint Road junior. He always wore a pin Stripe suit, looked very severe and ruled with a rod of iron. He also looked exactly like Himmler, one of Adolf Hitlers mates.

Used to scare me rigid.

[folkiesue]

Whitefield Road (Prince Rupert's) and Ellergreen High.
I can't believe I wore a bottle green beret!!

[John(Zappa)]

Ellergreen high here too. No beret's when I was there. I hated the 3rd & 4th year.

[kerry]

Henry Meoles Senior Comprehensive - Birket Avenue, Moreton

[Broliv]

East Prescot rd Nursery
St Pauls and St Timothys Infant school, west Derby
St Pauls Junior School, West Derby
St Francis Xavier's College, Beaconsfield Rd woolton
Birmingham City University (Formally University of Central England)

[Mongoose]

Rice Lane infants,
Rice Lane Juniors,
Sherwoods lane(Fazackerlycomp) how do you spell it anyway?
Oriel College, Oxford

[Johnny Seven]

Stocktonwood primary
Speke Comp :PDT_Aliboronz_24:

[Ged]

Stocktonwood Primary - that of Paul and Mike McCartney fame and once Britain's most overcrowded leading to a bunch of pupils including the Macca's being moved to the Joseph Williams in Netherley.

[kevin]

Rice Lane infants,
Rice Lane Juniors,
Sherwoods lane(Fazackerlycomp) how do you spell it anyway?
Oriel College, Oxford

My brother was at Oriel in the 80's - Paul Fields.

[knowhowe]

Forefield Lane infants and juniors, Crosby, Waterloo Grammar- which I hated.

[Dennis]

I went to St Oswalds infants and juniors then I went to Highfield Comprehensive School on Queens Drive in the later part of the 80's.

Highfield can't have left much impression on people as I cannot find any facebook references to it :(

[folkiesue]

John (Zappa) you'd look funny in a beret - I think it was only the girls!!
Tee hee. What great days!

[shoney]

Higher Side Comprehensive School.

I went higherside too left in 81

[John(Zappa)]

John (Zappa) you'd look funny in a beret - I think it was only the girls!!
Tee hee. What great days!

Oh I don't know:PDT_Xtremez_42:He doesn't look that bad in one!!:)

[conno]

St Paschal Baylon Juniors childwall then Cardinal Godfrey in Breck Road.

[alba1314]

I went to Garston C of E (Holman Rd/Horrocks Ave) Infants and Juniors before leaving in '77 to go to New Heys... Mr Howe was my Junior school head and Mrs Phillips (sp) was the Infant school head back then!

I never made it to New Heys though, 'cos we moved to Netherley during the summer and I went to Netherley (Community and) Comprehensive School - The Comp, to us plebs!... I was a 'B' block inmate at the Comp and had Barry Whitbread (ex-Runcorn and Altrincham player) as my PE teacher. Cracking guy - he played against Liverpool (Dalglish and co) at Anfield in the FA Cup and later emigrated to Canada to teach PE and footie over there. His son, Zack, later played for Liverpool!

Got away from the 'Pool when I was old enough, and drifted back over the years before returning home, North of the border and then ending up in Norn Iron some 14 years or so ago! I still visit now and again and catch up with my bessie mate, who lives in Woolton for a couple of bevvies when I'm back.

The pic is of myself and my eldest sister circa '74/'75 when we were both still pupils at C of E.

[The coolbury boy]

St Oswalds
Christ the King
Cardinal Godfrey(which became Nugent)
De La Salle

[shoequeen13]

I went to Bootle High School.

i did too. but as i'm a few yrs older i went back when it was still called warwick bolam before it amalgamated with contess. i also used to live in litherland its where i hung about mostly when i was a wee thing of 18 - the lithie & clouds & follies (well i think thats what it was called hopfully i'm not getting its name mixed up with fallows..) it was a rock night on a thursday. it was funny we'd spend saturdays all dressed up in heels & lippie all glam for clouds. then on a thursday night we'd be all long skirts & denim shirts tied at the waist?? with little sandals i remember that tied up your leg. doing a whole rock/hippie chick kind of a vibe! a little before your time you'd have still been only in 1st/2nd yr seniors.

two of my husbands came from litherland...say no more!! i like to keep a low profile & avoid the exes at all costs!! of course its just dawned on me that i have spoken about them on here before. so i'd just like to point out that of those i mentioned only one was from liverpool the other is not (thank god!!) so yes this does mean in my post i did kind of miss out the tiny fact that there are 3 ex-mr shoequeens & not two. i didn't lie exactly just withheld a little information... will i be shunned now as the black widow?? what can i say it was a phase i was going through. god/fate stepped in - what can i do to stop this girl from going down that bl**dy aisle again?? i know i'll give her a child with special needs who'll need her care 24/7. seriously no time/energy to date nevermind choose wedding dresses. i could be a nun...if i was catholic. never say never (after all do share my birthday with lizzie taylor) but i can honestly (mean it this time) say hand on heart i feel i've had more than my fair share of wedding cake & confetti to last me a lifetime...or two!

[shoequeen13]

i soooo have to apologise for the above it was soooo off topic!! once i start i can't stop obviously.

[crusoe]

35 years on and I've got the same sinking feeling as I used to have getting on the bus in school uniform, doing a quick check to see who was going to take the **** out of me... I went to Stanfield (Merchants Girls juniors) and Merchants Girls. Ooo, there's posh. Hats, blazers an' all.
Edit: and leafy suburbs of course.

[brian daley]

I went to Tiber St. from 1946 to 1952,Miss Bell was Headmistress and Mr Bath was head teacher. Miss Cribbin was one my teachers in junior school and Miss thomas was my first teacher in infant school (I had my first crush on her). Moved to Garston in 1952 in July,spent two weeks at Banks Rd.and then went to Gilmour Heath Rd. Was there from 1952 until the spring break in '57. Mr Simpson was Headmaster and Mr Norris was head teacher. Happy days!!
BrianD

[Gillandh]

I went to Bootle High School.

I also used to go to Bootle High School and I also lived in Frederick Banting Close. The bass player of the chase the ace is my boyfriend??

[Gillandh]

Oh God.. I know Colin Burgess... and the lead singer of Chase the Ace (My mate used to fancy him :)).. they went on Going Live didn't they?
I lived in Lunar Drive... had mates all over Fred Banting, Marie Curie etc
I also know the creevys and i know the lead singer of Chase the ace, John Griffin and the bass player too, who is my boyfriend. I lived in Freddie Banting and went to Bootle High. How old are you?

[lindylou]

Hi there Gillandh. Welcome to the forum.

Victoria hasn't popped in here for quite some time so she might not see your post.

Hope you are enjoying the forum.

[Billy D]

St Johns
Westminster Rd
Lambeth Rd

[R.Williams]

Went to Clint rd. 1951- 1957 later to West >Derby Tech, first year, ^1957.
Anybody out there?
Rodney Williams

[Dave H]

Broadgreen Juniors,Rice lane Juniors then Alsop.Hated Alsop.

St Margaret's (briefly), Granby St then Alsop (started before it went comprehensive). I hated it too but, with hindsight, it was probably better than a lot.

[Maggie May]

St Peter & Pauls primary
Seafield Grammar.......both in Crosby

[jasper]

I went to:
Lidderdale Road (Smithdown Road) 1945 to 1947 nursery and ps. I remember the Jews being required to leave the hall for assembly.

Granby Street ps 1947 to 1949 Miss Scott was head mistress. I was caned for peeing in the grid in the play ground.

SFX Prep ( The Gables) Menlove Avenue. 1949 to 1951. I was severely abused physically and emotionally by Miss Horner aided and abetted by the Head Master Fr. McCann

St Clare's. Harington Road. 1951 to 1954 Mr Ratchford was head master Mr Costigan was a sadist.

Walton Technical School 1954 to 1958 Eddie Dunn was the head master. Mr Whally was inspiring. Mr Tyson was mentally retarded. I was caned for not having my cap on in the play ground.

John Hamilton Technical School 1958 to 1959

[corky100]

I, um, went to Farnworth Grammar School, near Bolton. But there is a Liverpool, or rather, Everton Link...

Its also the School that Alan Ball attended in his youth. The English teacher there, Mr Stevens, still remembered him. He used to live (his mother still did I believe) near to us, a few streets away by the New Bury area of Farnworth.

Another famous pupil was Kenneth 'They think its all over' Wolstenholme, who came from nearby Walkden. Now isn't that a coincidence?


Shamefully, the school became a victim of Thatchers fear of 'Elitism in the Working Class' mistake in 1983, and was closed, which had a profound effect on the rest of my education.

[shytalk]

When I was in school back in the dark ages, every kid in the city was given a souvenier of the coronation. I still have mine and it has never been used.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/sc0use/IMAG0032.jpg

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/sc0use/IMAG0033.jpg

[chippie]

I found one of those in a digs I was living in in Gillingham about thirty years ago. It,s on a shelf in front of me now

[John(Zappa)]

When I was in school back in the dark ages, every kid in the city was given a souvenier of the coronation. I still have mine and it has never been used.

http://i25.photobucket.com/albums/c81/sc0use/IMAG0032.jpg

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Get it on ebay,it's an antique:handclap:

[shytalk]

Wouldn't part with it. My Sis has one from Edward V111 who was never crowned.

[Chris48]

So did this guy
http://www.derektwigg.org.uk/sect1/[/QUOTE]

No he didn't. I went to school with Derek Twigg. He went to Our Ladys Junior school and Fisher Moore secondary modern in Widnes. At that time The Wade Deacon was a Grammar school and Derek Twigg never passed the 11 plus.

[burkhilly]

St Margarets L8 (Now call St Margarets of Antioch)

St Anne's, Overbury Street

St Agnes Secondary, L13


St Agnes School, Broadgreen Road, was built sometime in the 60s. It was knocked down in the early 80s I think.

St Margarets school is still there, just!

St Annes - still there, but with a "new" building (think the old one still there.

[raymman]

Hebrew School in Hope Place, now part of John Moores, next to the Unity Theatre, originally a synagogue.
King David Primary.
King David Senior.

[18stanley]

Fonthill Road Primary 1925 -30 Can only remember Mr Stott the
Headmaster who helped me get a scholarship, and two teachers - Mr Irlam
who took me in his sidecar a couple of times to visit my grandparents in
Ormskirk (his family lived near Burscough somewhere) and Mr Kaye(nick-
named Kay-Kay,after the toffee very popular at that time). We were divided
into houses - Livingstone, Shackleton, Shaftesbury, and Wilberforce (I was in
Shaftesbury).
Alsop High 1930 -36. Mr Halford the Headmaster. He fought a losing
battle trying to persuade us to to lose our Scouse accents! I can remember a
few of the teachers - Mr Arundel who taught Spanish in between putting on
Gilbert and Sullivan operas (quite successfully) at Queens Drive Baths, Nat
Cooper the French teacher who just as unsuccessfully tried to convince us
that Rugby League was a much better game than football. And a few others,
but I'll stop there.
It's a sobering thought that for a brief moment they've been brought back!
Stan H

[Paddy]

I went to St Peter and Paul?s Crosby
St James Bootle
St Joan of Arc Bootle
Cardinal Newman Queens Drive
St Georges Mill Street
Thomas a Becket Spekeland road
Blessed John Almond Horrocks Avenue Garston

Moving around Liverpool I attended a few Schools my last school was in Garston the dreaded nun Gertrude had me expelled and I left with no other qualifications than being a seasoned playground fighter. Patrick Knight BSc Hon OU.

[Partsky]

I went St Bonaventure in Walton, always known as "Bonnies". Since changed name to Archbishop Beck. Rubbish school but best Teacher was Brian King, the wonderful English Teacher, who sadly died young but not before ensuring half the scallies in the area developed a love of books. Wonderful man.

[Ken Berry]

Hi,
Anfield Road Prep Mr Applebee Headmaster and A Miss Keysloe when I first started.Remember the big Red Cannonball of Cheese we all got as did most schools at the end of the war.It was a gift from the people of Holland in appreciation of them getting back their Freedom TheWoans,Grattons,MacQueens,Hoggs.Hunter,Blackwell ,Paget all great guys
and good school mates.

Then St.Margarets Anfield before the Church got burnt Down.Mr Simpson "The Boss" ruled with a rod of Iron and swung a mean cane.Cossie the French teacher if you fell asleep and your mouth opened he could get a piece of chalk in your gob from 30 ft.Smithy a tiny man with a Synthetic rubber Boomerang,had no hesitation of belting you across the face with it.Then a teacher got me to try for the Junior School of Art.Hope Street and Gambier Terrace.I wanted to be a Naval Architect come Draughtsman.Almost a complete disaster as normal subjects were left behind.But it was great with mixed classes.I see a Mr Eric MacGill is still alive and involved in a new Art Centre of Some Kind and He is 93 years Old.and would still be a gentleman and good teacher as he was in 1948.Mr Ballard ex British Army Middle weight Boxing Champion.He used to take us for boxing lessons.A male model was "Kid Tanner" and he used to help Mr Ballard.
Managed to catch up on all the Studies and became an engineer.Went to sea and Became a "P*** Artist". I still reckon they were the best days of my Life
at all the Schools.Had the last 2 1/2 years of Apprenticeship in Scotland and did studies at Paisley Tech.Those Teachers were brilliant and all Scots.
School of Art just had the edge over them all though Best Regards Ken B:034:

[Paddy]

The teacher who most impressed me was an English teacher called Mr Melia at Thomas Beket. He encouraged the kids to be creative. It was a rough School and his lessons were a break from the endless offering out.:ninja:

[kevin]

Moving around Liverpool I attended a few Schools my last school was in Garston the dreaded nun Gertrude had me expelled and I left with no other qualifications than being a seasoned playground fighter. Patrick Knight BSc Hon OU.

Paddy,
I left BJA with nowt except a hatred for Gertie. Now have a Master's degree from the University of Birmingham. She was too busy looking for the devil in us to see any potential.

[Junius]

Does anyone out there have any pictures of The Holt Comp School ? Especially the Olive Mount wing on Childwall Road ?

[tracywheelchair]

I went to Sandfield Park - brilliant school made me the person I am today I owe them a big Tank You for it. It was the only school I was allowed to attent with being a wheelchair user until Broadgreen opened its gates which is where I went to Do my GCSE's from 91 -94. Kids now a days have more choice with more and more schools being adaptable.

[wsteve55]

I went to Sandfield Park - brilliant school made me the person I am today I owe them a big Tank You for it. It was the only school I was allowed to attent with being a wheelchair user until Broadgreen opened its gates which is where I went to Do my GCSE's from 91 -94. Kids now a days have more choice with more and more schools being adaptable.

Hi Tracy,
Which has got to be a good thing!:nod:

[Paddy]

I was in Garston a few weeks ago Kevin and spoke with a few ex pupils seems most people thought Gertie was a nasty woman.:002:

[kevin]

I was in Garston a few weeks ago Kevin and spoke with a few ex pupils seems most people thought Gertie was a nasty woman.:002:


Hi Paddy,
I think you'd probably find it very hard to find anyone who had a good word to say about her. My mum always thought she was wonderful - Gertie could lay on the charm for parents - but had her eyes opened when my sister worked at as a nursery nurse at the kids home Gertie was based at, and told my mum how she treated the kids.

Double whammy - being in care and getting Gertie in charge of you: a sadist in a habit.

[tracywheelchair]

Yes it is wsteve55 integration is always a good sign now a days:handclap:

[spekelad]

Just spent an hour going through this thread, some great stuff.
Me I went to:
Stocktonwood Primary--kept running away and spending time in the Damwoods and at Oglet Shore
Millwood Primary--Greenway Rd Speke--didn't run away from this one
Alderwood Junior School--Alderwood Ave, Speke
Speke Secondary School for Boys--Stapleton Ave, Speke

Great days they was back in the '50's and the turn of the '60's:202 (1):

[Paddy]

Kevin: Well I tried to claim against them for abuse a few years back. They went out their way to hurt me. So any other Liverpool folk who go down that road they should be careful. The Church in Liverpool has held out for years against scandal whilst other places notably Ireland have tried to face up to it.One more point,they take away your right to remember your childhood!

[kevin]

Just spent an hour going through this thread, some great stuff.
Me I went to:
Stocktonwood Primary--kept running away and spending time in the Damwoods and at Oglet Shore
Millwood Primary--Greenway Rd Speke--didn't run away from this one
Alderwood Junior School--Alderwood Ave, Speke
Speke Secondary School for Boys--Stapleton Ave, Speke

Great days they was back in the '50's and the turn of the '60's:202 (1):

I was on the 'other side of the fence'.
St Christopher's from '56 to '62.
BJA from '62 to '66.
All Hallows '66 to '67.
A lot of my mates went to the same schools as you.

[kevin]

Kevin: Well I tried to claim against them for abuse a few years back. They went out their way to hurt me. So any other Liverpool folk who go down that road they should be careful. The Church in Liverpool has held out for years against scandal whilst other places notably Ireland have tried to face up to it.One more point,they take away your right to remember your childhood!


Hi Paddy,
Attack is usually the best form of defence - but should it be deployed against children, or adults because of what happened to them as children?
Indefensible.

[Paddy]

Well Kevin heres an insight.

I spent my formative years in Nazareth house Crosby. My official history claims it was a happy time and we were all treated well. My own recollection is somewhat different. Thing is they have gone to great lenghts to cover up. In this country the Catholic Church has not had to answer and Liverpool that has the biggest Catholic community has remained in denial.Discrediting claimants is common practice and falsifying records another. I got my records from Liverpool social services. As a child they had quartly visits to check on children in care. The forms in my possesion state clearly the general state and welfare of the child. As in recording measles and the mumps and also School medicals. I have a scar on the back of my head that was the result of having three stitches after being attacked in the nursery. There is no record of the incident or my trip to the hospital. For that reason Kevin quite frankly they make me sick.

[spekelad]

Good to know someone else went to school in Speke, even though you were on the otherside of the fence. I recall some of our teachers actually encouraged us to dislike Those other Schools. All seems so petty nowadays.
Good to know know you Kevin. I left school in December 1961 and left Liverpool in October 1962.


:taxi:

[kevin]

There is no record of the incident or my trip to the hospital. For that reason Kevin quite frankly they make me sick.

I know that feeling. In 1959 I spent 15 weeks in Alder Hey hospital, having had an operation to correct flat feet - most of that time in plaster from my toes to my knees (had to learn to walk again afterwards). Two years later my younger brother was diagnosed with the same problem but my mum told the doctor she didn't want him going through what I went through. The doctor said it was OK as they didn't do that operation any more. He was given insoles for his shoes, which corrected the problem and he has been fine ever since.

I've had problems with my feet for the past 15 years and was curious to discover what they had actually done to me. Asked my current GP to check my health records, and he rather surprisingly told me my records didn't start until 1960.

Coincidence?

[Paddy]

Well I had the same problem collecting medical records I can remember having the stitches? put in my head even so. In my childhood view I thought the stretcher was an ironing board and the stitches were like little silver stars. It was a painful experience and the scar is still there. It was caused by an assault on me in the nursery and other welfare reports predate the incident which leads me to believe that it has been omitted. The person who assaulted me was a care worker and I think that the church was mindful of a scandal .Other things such as unnatural punishments are denied. It was common practice to be beaten with coat hangers and hairbrushes and that was by nuns .The regime was at times quite sadistic yet the institution was presented as a happy place for children in care. Things got much worse for me in other homes but I do feel that we as very young children endured particularly harsh treatment. Then when I started doing alright they sent a posse after me too make sure you don?t get too confident and remain little Patrick forever grateful to them for their kind care. Well this medium is one way of having a go back.

[Ged]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters



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[kevin]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Magdalene_Sisters



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When I saw the film it had me in tears - repeatedly.

[Paddy]

With the Irish Church being linked in with the state they made it possible to address the issue of cruelty in Catholic establishments. That has not been the case for those Liverpool children who suffered. Recently the Pope apologized on behalf of the church in Australia to children who had suffered in their institutions. Quite a lot of them would have been scousers who got shipped out to Australia not long after the war. They made a drama about it called the leaving of Liverpool. The point is that kids like myself who grew up in their institutions are portrayed as lucky well cared for children. The legal services commission won?t grant legal aid to approach them. So there is no closure and they have more legal power than their victims

[gerry_2]

I went to St Margret Mary's school starting in 1938. The young children who went to St Edwards Orphanage also attended junior school there. I can remember my mother would give me a a piece of toast or a jam butty to have with my free milk. One day I was eating my snack at playtime, when one of the kids from the orphanage asked me if he could be my wacker, he said he was hungry, so I gave him some of my lunch. I toled Me Mam about it, and the next day she put an extra butty in my lunch for Me Wacker. Most people at school had a wacker. In scouseology to wack out is to share. A wacker is a scouser. I often if the word Wacker originated at our school. It would be nice to think it did.

[Paddy]

Good post Gerry lad. The weirdest school I attended was the school at the remand home on Menlove Avenue. They put me in there because I kept running away and going back to my Mam. Any road the system at Menlove was quite mad. If the teacher asked you a question and you could not answer you got hit over the head with a blackboard duster or a wooden wedge. Being a bright pupil I managed to escape quite a lot of knocks. If the teacher requested you stay behind that meant a hiding, and I mean a hiding.