We started at the Little School when we were about four years old. In this photo you can see Molly Hope (at the top of the slide), Julie Stretton (holding ...
School logbooks not only provide fascinating glimpses of school life in times gone by, but also show how external events may colour that life.
The impact of World War Two
One such historical ...
Seventy years ago the first school children from Roanne (in the Loire Valley, France) arrived in Nuneaton. At that time the only schools involved were the two grammar schools – ...
Frank Whittle’s achievements in both inventing and developing the jet engine are well-known and well-documented. Indeed, it is not unreasonable to call him one of Warwickshire’s more famous sons, especially ...
As far as I can recall, I was never met from school. I found my own way home at lunchtime and after school in the afternoon, a distance of about ...
I was one of the last students at Ashorne School. Sadly though the school closed for the last time at the end of Trinity term 1975. this was despite the ...
Although we lived in Wellesbourne, my brother and I started at Ashorne School in the Michaelmas Term 1972. Our mum used to drop us off on the way to work. ...
My mother died when I was nine, but I was looked after very well by neighbours. My father remarried when I was 13 and my stepmother was a kind lady.
I ...
My wartime memories start rather in Coventry round about 1939, when I would have been five years old. We got bombed out of Coventry after the 14th November Coventry blitz and ...