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Originally Posted by Eric
Yup ... All Saints ... left in '57 for Accy Grammar .... there were others from down Lower Barnes St. going at the same time I was ... David Bartram, Raymond Pye, Rodney Howard ... and probably a couple more that have slipped my memory. I lived up Rishton Road, past the old paint works, at the bottom of Charles St., near the gate and the stile to Ringstonhalgh Farm ... don't know if that's the correct spelling (and I don't think spellcheck would help  ), but a family called Swale had it. Used to get milk from them, dipped out fresh ... always remember the horse used to like to take a dump outside our house  How did I ever survive without health controls on how milk was processed and sold.  |
You are quite a lot younger than me.The year you left was Jim Bradshaw still Headmaster
he taught me at Mount Pleasant but I left 1950 I was getting married the year you left All Saints 1957 that makes me 77 in July.I thought you might have known some of the Howsen girls they lived at 1 Alexander st.
I lived at 71 Barnes st and when married accross the road at 74
The photo on the post Harry Boyle has quite a few bottom enders on I am the smallest stood next to the teacher (the Billy Bremner of the day)have a look you might reconise someone,two lads stood at the back far end are from below the bridge
Roy Smethurst