School wars

wiggy · Post by **wiggy** » Sun 07 Oct, 2007 10:40 pm

magic wrote: wiggy wrote: oh yes! cross green in early 80s,we did aggies and mount st marys in the same lunch time.at least they would turn up.....more than what corpus ever did! I am afraid things must of changed in the 90s, aggies took the tittle from cross green. aggies,dont be silly.....x green was always full of a-one villains,agies were uniformed posh kids who were like the modern parents from viz magazine...crochet kids on okay ya organic pack ups,with yoghurt knitting parents.....thats what we always thought anyway.

magic · Post by **magic** » Mon 08 Oct, 2007 10:25 pm

wiggy wrote: magic wrote: wiggy wrote: oh yes! cross green in early 80s,we did aggies and mount st marys in the same lunch time.at least they would turn up.....more than what corpus ever did! I am afraid things must of changed in the 90s, aggies took the tittle from cross green. aggies,dont be silly.....x green was always full of a-one villains,agies were uniformed posh kids who were like the modern parents from viz magazine...crochet kids on okay ya organic pack ups,with yoghurt knitting parents.....thats what we always thought anyway. Things must of changed then when i was there then. Also my 13 year old step daughter as just read your comments & included primrose in the list of schools we did. Oops does that make me a yoghurt knitting parent?

Tony · Post by **Tony** » Mon 08 Oct, 2007 11:18 pm

wiggy wrote: magic wrote: wiggy wrote: oh yes! cross green in early 80s,we did aggies and mount st marys in the same lunch time.at least they would turn up.....more than what corpus ever did! I am afraid things must of changed in the 90s, aggies took the tittle from cross green. aggies,dont be silly.....x green was always full of a-one villains,agies were uniformed posh kids who were like the modern parents from viz magazine...crochet kids on okay ya organic pack ups,with yoghurt knitting parents.....thats what we always thought anyway. We must have been on different planets then, that's not the way I remember it, either that or you have a different definition of "we did them"Agnes Stewart was never a "posh school", it had some kids from decent backgrounds, but I would never have sent my kids there. All I can say is that if you though of Aggie's as posh, I would hate to think what Cross Green was like!It sucked!

geoffb · Post by **geoffb** » Tue 09 Oct, 2007 8:20 pm

Tony wrote: wiggy wrote: magic wrote: wiggy wrote: oh yes! cross green in early 80s,we did aggies and mount st marys in the same lunch time.at least they would turn up.....more than what corpus ever did! I am afraid things must of changed in the 90s, aggies took the tittle from cross green. aggies,dont be silly.....x green was always full of a-one villains,agies were uniformed posh kids who were like the modern parents from viz magazine...crochet kids on okay ya organic pack ups,with yoghurt knitting parents.....thats what we always thought anyway. We must have been on different planets then, that's not the way I remember it, either that or you have a different definition of "we did them"Agnes Stewart was never a "posh school", it had some kids from decent backgrounds, but I would never have sent my kids there. All I can say is that if you though of Aggie's as posh, I would hate to think what Cross Green was like!It sucked! Leeds City Boys High could take Leeds Girls easy in the 60s, think this thread should be on Leedssc web site!!

jeffn · Post by **jeffn** » Thu 25 Oct, 2007 7:04 am

In the early 70's the big rival to Foxwood was St Kevins, and their 'cock' was 'the big skin Don', I marked him a couple of times at football for Foxwood, not an easy task . . ..

Festwerfer · Post by **Festwerfer** » Fri 02 Nov, 2007 1:19 am

Parkside V Mathew muck now they were battles razors, bike chains, broken bottles the lot. I seem to remember a few six formers from both schools doing time for one fight. Clapgate Middle V Belle Isle, John Blenky Belle Isle on the Moor at the side of the M1 goading the Clapgate lads and the Teachers locked the school. I remember the teachers strikes in the mid 80's caused hundreds of kids to walk the city centre and some big battles were fought then. Mind you these days its race riots in schools the big new one they have built near south Leeds stadium regularly has full blown riot cops separating the kids I work on the trading est and its regular lunch time entertainment.

LeeRatbag · Post by **LeeRatbag** » Fri 02 Nov, 2007 4:07 pm

Festwerfer wrote: Parkside V Mathew muck now they were battles razors, bike chains, broken bottles the lot. I seem to remember a few six formers from both schools doing time for one fight. Clapgate Middle V Belle Isle, John Blenky Belle Isle on the Moor at the side of the M1 goading the Clapgate lads and the Teachers locked the school. I remember the teachers strikes in the mid 80's caused hundreds of kids to walk the city centre and some big battles were fought then. Mind you these days its race riots in schools the big new one they have built near south Leeds stadium regularly has full blown riot cops separating the kids I work on the trading est and its regular lunch time entertainment. I was at Belle Isle Middle 79-83 and Matthew Muck 83-87. I remember an organised meeting between some of the BIM lads and the Clapgate lot around '81, that was quite nasty as I recall. The Matthew Muck/Cockburn scraps used to be a sight to see as well.

Post by **cnosni** » Sat 03 Nov, 2007 1:22 am

magic wrote: wiggy wrote: oh yes! cross green in early 80s,we did aggies and mount st marys in the same lunch time.at least they would turn up.....more than what corpus ever did! I am afraid things must of changed in the 90s, aggies took the tittle from cross green. Only after Crossgreen had closed though,dont have yourself on!!

MsJ2uk · Post by **MsJ2uk** » Sun 04 Nov, 2007 2:28 pm

,Thanks Festwerter + LeeRatBag. . .for a moment i thought Matthew Murray wasnt gunna get a mention. I went there in '82-'86. I remember some kids hiding-out in the Graveyard at the top of the Quarry. . . If you were from 'Miggy' you didnt go near Holbeck, Beeston+ vice-versa. So why they thought intergrating the 2 areas would work to make 1 school, South Leeds High., Post

MsJ2uk · Post by **MsJ2uk** » Sun 04 Nov, 2007 2:39 pm

, I've met the Head of SLHS(i work at a couple of schools in S.leeds) he said if the fighting gets bad the school sends parents a text to inform them if its just fighting or whether its a riot. Its ment to stop parents from worrying or ending up with exaggerated stories from their kids. (Kids dont need to tell stories these days, they have the video on their mobiles) lol , Post