Broad Street School

A Memory of Crewe.

I too, went to the Nursery School on Broad Street. I remember Miss Massey who slammed the desk down on my fingers squashing my signet ring, which resulted in my finger swelling and the ring having to be cut off! Such a nice lady to be teaching five year olds.... After the nursery we went to the infants school on Broad Street with Miss Cotton as our Headmistress. Then, for the first year of junior school we were in a railway carriage behind the chapel on North Street with Miss Kruger as our teacher. Afterwards, it was up to the junior school with Mr Foden, who I remember as a tall grey man, in grey suits. There was a welsh student teacher called Edward Gwyn Howells that we ten year old girls had a crush on, and I remember Mr Foden giving us a ticking off about it!
There was a brickyard pit opposite the school (it had been my great great grandfather's) and we would get into trouble because we used to paddle in it and catch sticklebacks. Summer holidays were great, we had such freedom in those days - I was in a gang and we would often walk all the way to Minshull canal with the oldest of us probably being ten. (Lynn Evans)