Accrington Web

Accrington Web (https://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/index.php)
-   Lost Friends / Family (https://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f67/)
-   -   St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965 (https://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/f67/st-oswald-s-school-accrington-1959-to-1965-a-51189.html)

johnenglish 08-01-2010 18:41
St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Anyone who had the pleasure of attending this fine school will probally remember yes wait for it Miss Birch ,Miss gardner.
Names i remember in my class are danny egan,mick cawley,pauline wallace myself John Lovell .
If you was in the class please out your name in .

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 18:45
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776723)
Anyone who had the pleasure of attending this fine school will probally remember yes wait for it Miss Birch ,Miss gardner.
Names i remember in my class are danny egan,mick cawley,pauline wallace myself John Lovell .
If you was in the class please out your name in .
I remember Miss Birch my first teacher 1968. Who was the headmaster was it MR.Holden.

johnenglish 08-01-2010 18:54
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
In my day it was a headmistress Miss gardner. I must have left when you started do yu remember the priests name who came Fr stack,Fr Houlihan.

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 18:57
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776723)
Anyone who had the pleasure of attending this fine school will probally remember yes wait for it Miss Birch ,Miss gardner.
Names i remember in my class are danny egan,mick cawley,pauline wallace myself John Lovell .
If you was in the class please out your name in .
Did you live in the area.

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 18:59
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776726)
In my day it was a headmistress Miss gardner. I must have left when you started do yu remember the priests name who came Fr stack,Fr Houlihan.
Yes FR. Houlihan was lovely. FR. Stack i remember too.

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 19:01
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by turkishdelight (Post 776728)
Yes FR. Houlihan was lovely. FR. Stack i remember too.
Which school did you attend later.

johnenglish 08-01-2010 19:33
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Yes Richmond hill st. were did you live

johnenglish 08-01-2010 19:34
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Holy Family sorry I should have posted these together.
I left there in 1970

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 19:36
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776737)
Yes Richmond hill st. were did you live
Very near the school. I also remember a Miss Bone.

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 19:39
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776738)
Holy Family sorry I should have posted these together.
I left there in 1970
I attended Holy Family too. I think my aunt is around your age, she went to Holy Family name Kathleen Sweeney.

johnenglish 08-01-2010 19:48
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
She must be younger than me,Johnny mayor was the head and cassidy was the deputy

turkishdelight 08-01-2010 19:55
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776745)
She must be younger than me,Johnny mayor was the head and cassidy was the deputy
I remember they all went on a school trip to Austria.

cashman 08-01-2010 23:23
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by turkishdelight (Post 776728)
Yes FR. Houlihan was lovely. FR. Stack i remember too.
Stack became a dean he wasn't lovely, in fact a nasty piece of work. IMHO.

johnenglish 09-01-2010 06:54
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
i agree i was an altar boy at sacred heart church along side jack bentley school teacher in my younger days.

turkishdelight 09-01-2010 10:06
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cashman (Post 776799)
Stack became a dean he wasn't lovely, in fact a nasty piece of work. IMHO.
Thats why i didnt say he was lovely just that i remembered him.

jaysay 09-01-2010 10:57
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776745)
She must be younger than me,Johnny mayor was the head and cassidy was the deputy
I went to the Holy Family when it first opened Johnny Mayor was the Deputy Head, Brunaceals (might be spelt wrong) was head, Dennis Cassidy was my form master for two years

jaysay 09-01-2010 10:59
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cashman (Post 776799)
Stack became a dean he wasn't lovely, in fact a nasty piece of work. IMHO.
Think that summed him up precisely cashy

jelly baby 09-01-2010 13:31
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

cashman 09-01-2010 13:43
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by turkishdelight (Post 776861)
Thats why i didnt say he was lovely just that i remembered him.
i realised that turkish.;)

Quote:
Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 776883)
Think that summed him up precisely cashy
yep, strangely not my usual way of summing up. must still be in back of me mind not to go overboard wi holy men.:D;)

jaysay 09-01-2010 14:03
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by cashman (Post 776918)
i realised that turkish.;)

yep, strangely not my usual way of summing up. must still be in back of me mind not to go overboard wi holy men.:D;)
in nomeni patris et filius et spiritus sanctus amen :D

johnenglish 09-01-2010 15:24
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Jelly baby, having read tour reply to my post,I am wondering was you in my class or was you in the class below.Hmmm was Cristopher egan in your class .
Seems strange I cant for the life of me remember a lot of the girls names who was in my class.Let me know thanks John

jelly baby 10-01-2010 14:53
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Hi John,
Strangely, a day or two ago I was trying to remember all my classmates at St Oswalds.

The ones I remember are..... Dave Parr, Dave Kay, Chris Egan, Ricky Ormerod, Patrick Harkin, Michael Walsh, Phillip Salisbury, Paul Foot, James Varley, Tony Webber, Robert Dillon, Ian Rawcliffe, Jan Olstowski, Roman Syngyz, David Boothman, Colin ?, Paula Rae, Janice Garratty, Carole Rishton, Helen Towler, Anne Marie Differ, Patricia Mitton, Theresa Killian, Ann Gallagher, Susan Baker, Elizabeth Dillon. There are a few missing, I must be getting old!!!
I still see a few of them around, I was told that James Varley committed suicide when he was about 20, and Tony Webber died about 6/7 years ago.
I think you were a couple of years above me. Do you have a brother called Chris? If so, I know him through work.

johnenglish 10-01-2010 15:07
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
YES ,I do have a brother called Chris.Looking through your list there was a lot of those who had brothers or sisters who were in my class
Paul webber, mick cawley,peter smith, james walsh, pauline wallace ,bernadette breckle ,anne dillon ,the girls names are a struggle .

BERNADETTE 10-01-2010 15:34
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
I recognize a few of the names but think they were in the year above me, the year my sister was in. Anybody remember Mary Nolan from Holy Family?

johnenglish 10-01-2010 16:05
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Mary of the Nolan sisters yes sure.I think she was in my year.
Peter Regan was in my year

BERNADETTE 10-01-2010 16:28
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 777282)
Mary of the Nolan sisters yes sure.I think she was in my year.
Peter Regan was in my year
Yep that was the same year as our kid. Peter is as nice as he ever was now, great bloke

johnenglish 10-01-2010 18:30
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by BERNADETTE (Post 777288)
Yep that was the same year as our kid. Peter is as nice as he ever was now, great bloke
Peter only came over from ireland when i was in the first year at holy family.

steve 21-02-2010 15:49
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
i remember all these names very well miss birch stright from colditz, mr holden a wiz with the strap, ho happy days.:mosher:

Stephanie Wallace 15-05-2010 07:31
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Yes, I lived in Canning Street, a couple of streets away from the school. Did you live in the area. I knew a family named English, but didn't know any of the single individuals.

Stephanie Wallace 15-05-2010 07:33
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Anyone remember any of the Cooney family who attended St. Oswalds's?

Stephanie Wallace 15-05-2010 07:35
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
No, not the strap. Mine was the cane for being late! Ouch, it hurt on chilblained hands!

Stephanie Wallace 15-05-2010 07:37
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Anyone remember Joan, Alicia, Stephen Cooney from Holy Family?

Stephanie Wallace 15-05-2010 07:42
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Hated Mr. Btuynseels and he hated me! Geography-he used to stand over me and make me so nervous I couldn't read the map!

Stephanie Wallace 23-05-2010 07:51
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Anyone from St Oswald's remember Rita Madigan, Ursula Crook, Patty McDonald? 1940-1950?

Stephanie Wallace 23-05-2010 07:53
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1940-50
 
Barbara Bentley, Rita Madigan, Anne Cunningham, Ursula Crook. Anyone remember them?

Stephanie Wallace 30-05-2010 07:57
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Canning street.

Stephanie Wallace 03-06-2010 07:43
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Hi John, You must be younger than I am. I was at St. Oswalds's before you, but my sisters went to Holy Family. You may have know them- Joanie Cooney, Alicia Cooney, my brothers, Dennis Cooney and Stephen Cooney. Steve used to deliver papers round Fern Gore. I never see any familiar names when I look on the page. Do you know anyone by the name of Patricia Hinksman. She was Caveney before her marriage and has a sister called Maureen. Pat's ex was called Jimmy and came from Whalley, I think.

Bernard Dawson 03-06-2010 08:48
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Stephanie Wallace (Post 819843)
Hi John, You must be younger than I am. I was at St. Oswalds's before you, but my sisters went to Holy Family. You may have know them- Joanie Cooney, Alicia Cooney, my brothers, Dennis Cooney and Stephen Cooney. Steve used to deliver papers round Fern Gore. I never see any familiar names when I look on the page. Do you know anyone by the name of Patricia Hinksman. She was Caveney before her marriage and has a sister called Maureen. Pat's ex was called Jimmy and came from Whalley, I think.
Stephanie, I think I was in the same class at Holy Family with one of your brothers. I didn't go to St Oswald's school, went straight to the Holy Family, from St Anne's.

jaysay 03-06-2010 09:33
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 819855)
Stephanie, I think I was in the same class at Holy Family with one of your brothers. I didn't go to St Oswald's school, went straight to the Holy Family, from St Anne's.
You were in the first intake like me Bernard weren't you, I started in 3B then moved to 3A after three months was in the form with Franny Franks, Ken Waterson, John Toole, Martin Molloy, Tony Alveston (who's a member on here) Pete Benson, George Holt ( was Stumper for Enfield) Sharon Floyd and Angela Parker from Clayton two sisters from Gt Harwood can't remember their names, Think you were in a year below me, if I remember

Bernard Dawson 03-06-2010 19:11
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by jaysay (Post 819866)
You were in the first intake like me Bernard weren't you, I started in 3B then moved to 3A after three months was in the form with Franny Franks, Ken Waterson, John Toole, Martin Molloy, Tony Alveston (who's a member on here) Pete Benson, George Holt ( was Stumper for Enfield) Sharon Floyd and Angela Parker from Clayton two sisters from Gt Harwood can't remember their names, Think you were in a year below me, if I remember

I think you were probably a couple of years above me. You may well have been in the same year as my sister. I know most of the names you mention. And still see one or two of them knocking about.

jaysay 04-06-2010 09:08
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Bernard Dawson (Post 820063)
I think you were probably a couple of years above me. You may well have been in the same year as my sister. I know most of the names you mention. And still see one or two of them knocking about.
What was your sisters first name Bernard, was it Kathleen:confused: that seems to ring a bell, most of the people I mentioned, I think I've only seen 4 since I left school, George Holt I've seen regularly, he lives in Ossy and of course Tony Alveston, John (Louie) Toole lives in Ossy and saw Martin Molloy when I lived in Hassy

Alan Gilmartin 09-06-2010 06:24
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Richard Parker was in my class jaysay, thats Angela's brother. but I thought Sharon Floyd, and Angela went to Paddock House,

jaysay 09-06-2010 09:33
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by Alan Gilmartin (Post 821253)
Richard Parker was in my class jaysay, thats Angela's brother. but I thought Sharon Floyd, and Angela went to Paddock House,
Not unless they had doubles Alan:D was in the same class 3rd 4th and 5th years, the 5th year in those days was not mandatory (leaving age was 15 in those days) we all left on the same day

JCB 09-06-2010 10:13
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by johnenglish (Post 776824)
i agree i was an altar boy at sacred heart church along side jack bentley school teacher in my younger days.
John , if you are still visiting the Accy Web , do you mean Fred Bentley? He had a twin brother , Harry. They lived on Blackburn Rd just before you reach where the old Grammar School was.
Fred taught at Holy Family - Mount Carmel. He was keen on all sports. He once took a group abroad for a skiing holiday and came back with a broken leg.
He would have been 63 now . He died last year , sadly unable to enjoy the retirement he was about to begin.

The Miss Birch , often mentioned on this thread , became Mrs Ormerod after her retirement . I think that will surprise many.

Kim R P 07-07-2010 18:26
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Hello - I found this thread accidentally! I was at St. Oswald's in 1954/55. Then we moved to Chester when I was 6.
I was in Miss Birch's class, then in Mrs. Eddisforth's for most of my time there. Although it's unlikely anyone would remember me, did anyone know Hilary Webster, who was my friend? She was the same age and had a brother Peter who was a couple of years older in Miss Gardner's. I've often wondered what happened to Hilary.
I've still got a school photo from my year, but can only remember some first names!
Dorothy, Deidre, Janet, Mary, Maureen (surname Asprin?), Antony, Peter, Barry, David, Dale, Jimmy?
Just thought someone might have brothers or sisters around that time and might know Hilary.
I was Kim Peddie and lived on Blackburn Rd in a little chocolate shop.

chunkybudda 22-03-2011 21:14
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
hi all just joined accyweb to see if i could find any old photos of my dad or family members.His name was Paul webber and went to holy family in the early 70's,i hope someone can help me as he died 10 yrs ago and i have never seen him as a boy thank you

johnenglish 01-09-2011 18:48
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Sorry to hear about the loss of your Dad. I remember him from Junior school days ,we used to mate around together .He was a good swimmer and always a good laugh.I will try and think about what we used t o get up to at school and get back to you
John Lovell

Stephanie Wallace 02-10-2011 08:55
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
I must be the oldest contributor to Accy Web. Attended St. Oswald's and recognise the teacher's names but cannot find anyone who was there when I was. Maybe time to stop looking. 'Bye all you past pupils of St Oswald's. Even though I got caned from time to time-always late-I loved that school, some of its teachers and all my friends, who may not own computers.

jelly baby 04-10-2011 17:12
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Quote:
Originally Posted by chunkybudda (Post 893408)
hi all just joined accyweb to see if i could find any old photos of my dad or family members.His name was Paul webber and went to holy family in the early 70's,i hope someone can help me as he died 10 yrs ago and i have never seen him as a boy thank you
I remember Paul and also his sister Margot, they lived on Brunswick Terrace in Accy. Paul was in my class at junior school. I have no photo's I'm afraid, but if you were to contact St Oswalds or Mt Carmel they may have something in their archives. ( In 2005, I got a school photo of my dad at Green Haworth school at age 5 in 1930!)
We were at the old St Oswald's at the junction of Brown St & Willows Lane.
Good Luck
JB

wapthrush 14-01-2014 09:34
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Hi Jelly baby, first time on this site. Do you remember anyone who was at St Oswalds 1942-1951I I am one of the Cooneys(Kevin)Would like to hear from anyone who was at the school at that time

jelly baby 11-08-2014 11:29
Re: St Oswald,s School Accrington 1959 to 1965
 
Can't help with that I'm afraid, I wasn't born 'til 1956.


All times are GMT. The time now is 13:53.

Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2025, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Search Engine Friendly URLs by vBSEO 3.6.1
© 2003-2013 AccringtonWeb.com