St Marys RC school Oswaldtwistle 1955-57??
 

I was in this school from 1955 to 1957 and am looking for lost friends
Can anyone out there help??

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Sent you a PM.

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Hi
Are you Pat Murphy.I was at St Marys about the time you are asking about
my name is Tony Parkinson. Idont know if you remember me.
Regards
tonyp

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i was at st mary's till 59.........you will remember my older brother better than me im mary clarkson........he's bernard.

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I was there but much later I'm afraid - 69 - 76, I think.

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Yep I remember !!!

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Hi Pat Murphy I attended St. Marys Ossie in those years I had come over from Ireland I played on the football team I remember Bernard, and Mary I had a photograph of that football team but lost it, has anyone got a copy. Regards Patrick Murphy

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I was also at St Mary's at that time. My name was Sharon Mckenna.

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I was there at the same time as Gayle too

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Hi Sharon
Are you any relation of colin or Tommy McKenna - they were on the school team in 1955 I think
Thank you

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Pat, I was wondering if you had any pictures of the old building because as far as I know the building that I went to only opened a couple of years before I went there. I'd be interested to know exactly where it was in relation to today's school as well.

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Gayle It Was Being Used As Some Sort Of Garage When I Moved Back Up Here .....some 11yrs Ago, It Is Now The Little Car Park For Ossy Mills .on Moscow Mill St, Opposite The Miller Care Entrance .

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Hi Gayle
Sorry I don't have any pics - the school was next to the TA Barracks - in between the school and the barracks was a playground.

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I went to St Marys from 1948 until 1954, when I left to go to Paddock House. The school was in the old building with the open, cinder playground and outside loos and windows too high to see out of. In my time the headmistress was Miss Heaney and Fred Vandome was deputy head.

TonyP, I think we may have been in the same class, your name is familiar. When I left, our class teacher was Mrs Harrison. I remember Michael Coffey, Tony Borwick, Stuart Hartley, Stuart Bailey, Austin Caulfield, Anne Warbrick, Maureen Thompson, Audrey Hodson, Pat Fitzpatrick and my good friend (and she still is, 52 years later) Betty Wilcock. Any of these names ring any bells?

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I went to Paddock too but no surprise really as St Mary's was one of the feeder schools and it was just across the road.

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As you know Gayle I was at the same feeder school and wanted to go to Paddock but for some reason they wouldn't have me.;)

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They'd have spotted those dirty knees in a skirt - us girls always had clean ones!

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Yeah,I went to St.Marys left in1977 and went up to St.Mary's College at B/burn:)

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So you'd have been in the school year below me - would I know you from back then?

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Dont know,you saw me at that play you had on up at Stanley when we turned up with the flasher macs & jam jar bottom glasses:)

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Yes, but the flasher macs distracted me.

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I'll PM you Gail:) ...............

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You're heartless bringing up the subject of my dirty knees just as my shrink was telling me how well my treatment was going.:eek:
What I want to know is when did you see me wearing that skirt?
It was a kilt honest !!!:)

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Thats what they all say mate:D

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So you own a kilt as well?:)

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Just worn one once over a pair of black leather bondage pants:D

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Hi patmur64, Sorry it's taken me so long to answer you. Colin and Tommy are my older brothers.Sadly Tommy died a few years ago, but Colin is still going strong and living in Clayton. I will ask if he remembers you.I loved that old school and hated having to move on to the holy family.
Take care Shaz.

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Hi Pat it's sharon again. Just spoke to colin and he does remember you.Did you have two brothers? bye again.

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To Sharon McKenna
Hi Sharon
I got your message in my email even though I don't see your message posted on the accringtonweb page itself
I do remember Colin & Tommy - am sorry to hear Tommy had died - we were in the same school team (Feb 1955, I think) - I had a photo of that team until a few months ago but unfortunately it has gotten mislaid - I wonder if you would know if there is anywhere I could get a copy - in the background was Mr Cosgrove and Mr Fred Vandome
God Bless
Pat Murphy

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Hi again Sharon
The Murphys you are thinking about were Terry and 2 other brothers who lived in Springhill Road but I am unconnected to these Murphys even though Terry was in my class
Pat

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would the other be micheal murphy .....if saw i saw him & his wife a couple of years ago they now live burnley way .

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Hi Pat' sorry if i get my messaging mixed up, am not very good at this sort of thing.It's a shame your photo got mislaid. Colin is pretty sure he has a photo somewhere.Will post it a.s.a.p
Shaz

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Great news
I hope Colin will be able to dig out the photo
Thanks
Pat

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I left St. Marys in 1959 when the Holy Farm opened sorry Family. I remember a lot of the people being montioned in this thread

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Who are you West Ender?

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I remember you Patrick you were in the same class as me at St Marys did you see the picture in the Observer the other week there was a lot of lads i remember David Watts (my cousin) Pete Turner Paul McGrath David Higson Maureen Clayton May Haworth Dorothy Bagshaw to mention a few.
John Maguire

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Was at Marys leaving in 1959 names i remember Colin Edmondson,Vinny Holt, Les Moss, Tony Borwick, Stuart Hartley, and the unforgetable Oliver Rowley and me Kevin Westell

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Worked wi Colin fer years, think he lives oer Houghton way now, moved yon from bottom of Fielding Lane years back.

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Wasn't he foreman of the welding shop at Blythe's after Dick Cunliffe left?

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I know he worked at Blythe's for years yerself, I did a lot of maintenance work there in the late sixties and I bumped into him regularly used to see him quite a lot until he moved out of Ossy, must be over ten years since

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Gayle, can you remember the sweet shop at the beginning of that little lane which led from St. Mary's up to Paddock House (back entrance or Junior school entrance as it was then)? Paddock House girls weren't supposed to go into the shop, but we always did!

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Sorry folks,(Gayle in particular) only just realised that I was looking at a very old post!

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We used to call in the sweet shop at the bottom of Coal Pit Lane on the way to the Palladium .

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He may well have said that.:eek: Ask Roy Roberts.;)

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Hi Stuart , Austin Caulfield .nice to see an old school mate. Austin