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    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!
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    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.
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    Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
    Time held me green and dying
    Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

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    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.

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    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

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    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.
    Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
    Time held me green and dying
    Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

    Dylan Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paddy View Post
    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.

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


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    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.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tracywheelchair View Post
    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!

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    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.
    Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
    Time held me green and dying
    Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

    Dylan Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by Paddy View Post
    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.

    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.

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

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    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

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    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!
    Oh as I was young and easy in the mercy of his means,
    Time held me green and dying
    Though I sang in my chains like the sea.

    Dylan Thomas

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    Quote Originally Posted by spekelad View Post
    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
    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.

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