The Best Years Of Your Life - Page 2

katex · 02-02-2006, 08:04

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Originally Posted by Neil

Don't be overly worried. I know a lot of ex QEGS students and some of them are straight with good jobs

The old school rivalry still lives on - when i was at school we thought QEGS was a colony for rich gay kids.

That's OK then, strange how school rivalry taunts have moved on into a more moder idium; thought it daring when I was at school to shout 'Peel Park Angels; St. John's Sausages' Been chased down the street on many occasions after being brave enough to shout this to the St. John's pupils.

WillowTheWhisp · 02-02-2006, 08:16

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Originally Posted by garinda

Don't know when it ceased being the Grammar School, and joined forces with Accrington High School for Girls to become Moorhead.

1975?

Before it joined forces with the High Shool it actually moved onto Queen's Road West into a hideous grey pre-fabricated looking monstrosity. When the two became one that was referred to as "Queen's Building" and the High School was known as "Cromwell Building". For years the kids had to move between the two.

And to think, in my day if you so much as looked at a boy when you were a pupil at the High School Miss Horne would be down on you like a ton of bricks! BOYS were regarded by her as some kind of alien species put upon earth in order to distract her girls from doing their lessons!

Wynonie Harris · 02-02-2006, 08:23

The Grammar School moved from Blackburn Road up to Queens Road in 1968 and yes, Garinda, it did go comp in 1975. Incidentally, I noticed recently that the "monstrosity" is now derelict and boarded-up. That certainly lasted, didn't it?

WillowTheWhisp · 02-02-2006, 08:43

It became redundant as a school when the Cromwell Building was extended. Those 'improvements' (I use the term loosely) were completed 3 years ago when Mimi first started there. They got extra holiday that summer because the school opened late as work was still in progress. It was still in progress when they actually opened and parts of the school were off limits for a while.

Neil · 02-02-2006, 09:27

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

And to think, in my day if you so much as looked at a boy when you were a pupil at the High School Miss Horne would be down on you like a ton of bricks!

My old school layout was basically 2 corridors with classroom's upstairs and down seperated by the school hall at the front of the building. Each of the two corridors had a doorway at the front, above one engraved in stone was "Boys" and above the other "Girls". I think they only ever used to come together in the school hall but that was before my time.

katex · 04-02-2006, 12:44

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Originally Posted by WillowTheWhisp

to think, in my day if you so much as looked at a boy when you were a pupil at the High School Miss Horne would be down on you like a ton of bricks! BOYS were regarded by her as some kind of alien species put upon earth in order to distract her girls from doing their lessons!

She didn't stop me looking though eh, Willow, nor you I suspect?

mick · 06-02-2006, 12:35

Here you go thanks to Katex, and some i took
hope you like them and they bring back memory's

pendy · 08-02-2006, 13:15

The old grammar schools gave a lot of kids a chance for a future that they wouldn't otherwise have had. Now we've taken it away from them in the name of progress. Funny how "progress" so often seems to mean "going backwards", innit?

katex · 08-02-2006, 22:41

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Originally Posted by pendy

The old grammar schools gave a lot of kids a chance for a future that they wouldn't otherwise have had. Now we've taken it away from them in the name of progress. Funny how "progress" so often seems to mean "going backwards", innit?

Here, here ... nowt else to say really.