This school was built in 1837, adjoining the churchyard and parsonage, on a site presented by Lord John Scott. Previous to its erection the girls were instructed on the week-days ...
I started at St Nicholas school in 1937 at the age of 5. The first class we were in, the teacher wore a long black dress. The cloakroom had beds ...
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Before dinner we took it in turns to fetch the put up tables from the air raid shelter across the playground. In winter they were put up ...
St Emmanuela’s was a HORSA classroom, short for ‘Hutting Operation for the Raising of the School-leaving Age’. These pre-cast concrete classrooms were constructed soon after World War II and were ...
I went to school in Hampton on the Hill in the 1950s. The village was very different in those days, busier with a blacksmith, post office, small shop, Grove Park ...
I started at Vicarage Street Church School, Nuneaton in 1937, the year of the coronation of King George VI. During the war, the roof of the school was taken off ...