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jelly baby · 09-01-2010, 13:31

I was there when Miss Gardiner left and Mr Holden took over, about one maybe two years before the school moved to Hartley Ave, prob around 1965. Miss Birch was my first teacher, she was a proper horror. I met her again a few years ago, she was a friend of an Aunt of mine, she hadn't changed much, she still disliked children!! I remember Fra Houlihan very well, he used to play footy with the local lads on Lower Antley St at the back of the church. Fra (later Dean) Stack was, IMHO not really priest material. If a girl went to mass without a hat and took communion, she got a knuckle knock on the head!! He was very much from the fire and brimstone school of priests. He and Miss Birch could have been an ideal couple in another life.LOL

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jelly baby Full Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Accrington, Posts: 494 Liked: 13 times Rep Power: 3185	Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965 I was there when Miss Gardiner left and Mr Holden took over, about one maybe two years before the school moved to Hartley Ave, prob around 1965. Miss Birch was my first teacher, she was a proper horror. I met her again a few years ago, she was a friend of an Aunt of mine, she hadn't changed much, she still disliked children!! I remember Fra Houlihan very well, he used to play footy with the local lads on Lower Antley St at the back of the church. Fra (later Dean) Stack was, IMHO not really priest material. If a girl went to mass without a hat and took communion, she got a knuckle knock on the head!! He was very much from the fire and brimstone school of priests. He and Miss Birch could have been an ideal couple in another life.LOL __________________ Jelly Baby Last edited by jelly baby; 09-01-2010 at 13:35.