Which schools did you attend, when, and thoughts.

[jim]

Jim - What a coincidence - I was at Ben Rhydding fro m 1941 to 1947 - the last year not in the main old school, but in a large hut just at the bottom of Ben Rhydding Drive, administered by a very stern teacher called Gilbert Pyrah. It was a friendly school indeed and of course World War 2 was still raging most of the time I was there. I can still remember all my teachers.
Standard 1 Mrs. Beanlands
2 Miss Irving
3 Miss Shackleton
4 Mrs. Chapman
5 Mr. Jackman
6 Mr. Pyrah.

I wonder if a bit of our family lore has memories for you. My mother told me in later years a story of which I have no memory myself, but apparently I came home one day asking for money for a collection for a lady teacher who was leaving to get married. On being asked what the money was for, and having regard to my feeling that the lady in question seemed somewhat unprepossessing I told my parents that it was "to pay the man to marry her"!

[zip55]

Low Road Primary 1962
Coldcotes Primary 1963 - 66
Foxwood Comp. 1966 - 1972

Loved them all in one way or another, although I didn't do as well at Senior school as I should have (lack of effort).

[warringtonrhino]

1953 -1955 Bewerley Street Infants, Hunslet
Our clothes pegs, desks etc all had symbols, mine was a blue fish.

1955 -1960 Beechwood Junior School, Seacroft.
I soon discovered that the owner of the dog in the playground had to take it home.
We lived a mile from the school, and a walk via foxwood woods took the best part of the morning, bliss!

1960 -1967 Foxwood Comprehensive, Seacroft
A great school if you wanted to learn, which I did.

1967-1971 Kingston School of Architecture. Surrey
I lost contact with all my school mates, postmen and telephones were all we had then.

I spent most of my early years drawing.
Now that I have retired, I still draw maps and cartoons.

[Peter.shaw]

Green mount primary (beeston)
Dorset primary (gipton)
Cockburn high
City of Leeds
Braimwood

[BLAKEY]

Jim - What a coincidence - I was at Ben Rhydding fro m 1941 to 1947 - the last year not in the main old school, but in a large hut just at the bottom of Ben Rhydding Drive, administered by a very stern teacher called Gilbert Pyrah. It was a friendly school indeed and of course World War 2 was still raging most of the time I was there. I can still remember all my teachers.
Standard 1 Mrs. Beanlands
2 Miss Irving
3 Miss Shackleton
4 Mrs. Chapman
5 Mr. Jackman
6 Mr. Pyrah.

I wonder if a bit of our family lore has memories for you. My mother told me in later years a story of which I have no memory myself, but apparently I came home one day asking for money for a collection for a lady teacher who was leaving to get married. On being asked what the money was for, and having regard to my feeling that the lady in question seemed somewhat unprepossessing I told my parents that it was "to pay the man to marry her"!

I haven't heard of this Jim, and certainly in my time there I'm sure that neither Miss Shackleton or Miss Irving got married, but nevertheless I've no doubt that your Mum's recollection will have been correct or she wouldn't have told you about it. Possibly after I went to Mr. Pyrah's outpost in Ben Rhydding Drive from 1946-7 Miss Irving or Miss Shackleton may have left or retired, and a younger lady replaced one or other of them and got married before you left in 1949 - that seems perfectly feasible.