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Forum: Questions and Answers 21-05-2013, 09:51
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Tony Sowden won The Observer cup now lives near Blackpool. Get a Christmas card from him ever year
Forum: Questions and Answers 21-05-2013, 09:33
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

We only knew him when he was small. Tony Sowden was a friend of John's
Forum: Questions and Answers 21-05-2013, 09:28
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

[QUOTE=cashman;1059837][QUOTE=Aussie Irene;1059832]Ah the land yeh mention was always vacant until a few years ago, they built a childrens play area n put railings around it.:)[/QUOTE

There used...
Forum: Questions and Answers 21-05-2013, 09:22
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

I may be getting a bit mixed up here Jaysay with the boys name but his girl who was the eldest was definitly called Pauline, and i seem to think she went to Paddock House The house they lived in was...
Forum: Questions and Answers 21-05-2013, 09:02
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

[QUOTE=cashman;1059815]They were a big family irene, as fer park con??:confused: no idea what that is, it sure aint yon now.:confused:[/QUOTE

We did know of them but not personally.
The park con...
Forum: Questions and Answers 21-05-2013, 04:03
Replies: 88
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Sorry, got that wrong, left Tremellen St.40 yaers ago for oz. left Park Road 50 years ago
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 22:27
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Facing Park Con? Were they a big Family?
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 22:22
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Yes, Toms and his wife Sheila and kids Pauline and Michael. Can't place the Duffy family. We left Park Road 40 years ago.
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 10:10
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Thanks Jaysay. Learning more about Ossy by the minute although we did have three friends from up there. Tom Henry who lived three doors away in Park Road, Accy, Bernard Perkins, and Raymond Hilton...
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 09:07
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Maybe i should send my husband back.
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 09:01
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

He did'nt know. He just thought Rhyddings school, Rhyddings St
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 08:54
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 08:48
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 08:46
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Thanks Margaret. Wiil have a look at that
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 08:40
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Thanks. Does that mean that the school is where it's always been. If so whats happened to Union Rd building?
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 08:16
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

Thanks for that DtheP47. Things are starting to get more clear. Rhyddings in Rhyddings street was just a stab in the dark. My husband was beginning to think after reading some of the threads maybe he...
Forum: Questions and Answers 20-05-2013, 04:23
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

If what you say is correct, in what year, and why, did the Junior Technical School move out of the building across from the Palladium, and go to Moorend. What was the reason for the amalgamation,...
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2013, 11:57
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

My husband says he was born to soon. I think he is jealous of you cashman
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2013, 11:29
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

How many students were in the school in those days and why did it change from a boys trades school to a mixed school ?.
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2013, 10:00
Replies: 88
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

I seem to think that Jack Simmons Enfield/ Lancashire cricketer and chairman also went there. Can anyone verify this?.
Forum: Questions and Answers 19-05-2013, 07:41
Replies: 88
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Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

How many years was Rhyddings at the top end of Ossy before they moved to present building.
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-05-2013, 12:13
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

I forgot to say that the boys had to pass a scolarship to go to the school. There was no 11+ in those days
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-05-2013, 12:03
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

I believe my husband can shed a little light on this thread.

In 1946, Accrington Junior Technical School as it was called then, was on the corner of Portland and College Streets Accrington. It was...
Forum: Questions and Answers 16-05-2013, 05:56
Replies: 88
Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Forum: Questions and Answers 15-05-2013, 10:11
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Views: 2,355
Posted By Aussie Irene
Re: Accrington secondary tech/Rhyddings

It was called Accrington Junior Technical school in 1967, with only 96 students, all boys, my husband was one of them.
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