[QUOTE=Maddie;314503]Abbeyholme High School??? I was around 5 at the time and this would have been somewhere around 1957 -1958 – I transferred over with another small Liverpool urchin named Alec Whittaker who I was mates with for many years.
Hi Maddie, Thank you for your posting, which brought back many memories of Abbeyholme School. We must have been in the same class because I remember Alec Whittaker, Graham Simm and Ivor Morris, but your recollections are certainly much clearer than mine !
My name is Timothy Chaple and I attended Abbeyholme from 1957 to 1961. At that time, I was lucky enough to pass my 11 plus and moved down the road to the Bluecoat.
I too have a copy of a school report that I have attached below:
This report was signed by Miss McClelland herself ! Unfortunately, the original report was longer than A4 so the bottom got cut off.
During that time at Abbeyholme, my best friends in school were Paul Hatton and Martin Randle. I am still in touch with Martin, but have no contact details for Paul.
I also remember the BCG injection……. the “test” consisted of five needles in a circle that penetrated your fore-arm simultaneously. If that didn’t turn bright red after a week then you would be given the “actual” BCG injection, however I believe that the stories about the needle being six inches long were somewhat exaggerated !
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Thanks for your posting.
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