Going To School

I attended the infants school in the church house in 1945. I remember Miss Cordell.. Also I think Mrs Marny who played the piano at assembly in a very flamboyant style.Other memory was watching the wartime fire reservoir out in what ibecame the car park being demolished by workmen. Quite a distraction from lessons.

I attended the original infants school which was in East Street roughly opposite the waterworks. Miss Cordell was head mistress and Miss Marny was my class teacher. One morning during the war I woke up and was told that there had been a direct hit by a bomb during the night. It was flattened. I don't know if Snows cycle shop was there then. Anyoldsomeway, after a few days we were given a spot in the Count Secondary school in Lintons Lane, we had a classroom or two in the girls side of the school. I must have been in the final class because my next move was to the Junior school at corner of Hook Rd and East St. under Mr Crosby. A good few years later I was in the Army Cadets which had some wooden huts on the site of the old Infants School.