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The times they are a-cagin'.
I've just spent the evening in a hall that I last sat in twenty five years ago, when I took my exams.
The occasion being my nephew was in the end of term play at QEGS. It was totally weird. I did go back to the school three years ago, to give a talk about my career to the art students, but this was the first time I'd been in the new hall since the early eighties. It was like being fourteen again. It didn't look smaller than I remembered, as people often say, as I'm the same size now as I was then, but it was like being transported back a quarter of a century, to that person who was me then. An eager beaver, full of dreams, and always the first to volunteer to read the lesson in school assemblies. The sort of play that was performed tonight, had changed to. It was sort of a pastiche on the Rocky Horror Show, but set in Lancashire. All cross dressing, and rock 'n' roll. All very different from the Children's Crusade we did when I was there, as well as my acclaimed Nancy in Oliver Twist! As anyone else been back to a place they haven't been to for years? How did it make you feel? It's left me feeling like I should be cleaning my shoes, and checking my homework's in my satchel.:D |
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Thread title should read 'The times they are a-changin'.'
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A few years ago, I went back to St Mary's - I hadn't been in there since I left when i was 11 - to see if I wanted to send Maddie there. I was clearly biased but it's working out ok. Lots of things felt exactly the same as when I left but obviously lots of things had changed. Now, I go in there on a regular basis - in there today supporting some drumming workshops - and it doesn't feel like 'my old school' anymore, it's their school.
They knocked Paddock House down a few years ago but they held an open day on the last day before it all went. We were allowed to look in the nun's old quarters to see how they lived - that was interesting. |
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No, I have never gone back to any of the places where the threads of my life were woven into the pattern they became.
I don't believe that we can gain anything by going back......and sometimes the memories are better left undisturbed. Onwards and upwards! |
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yes you make your nephew do the right things because like you have said we had to make our thing right for the day after we always had clean shoues and the rest of the things that way he wont go to wrong
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Yes, well if life pitches me back to somewhere that I have been before as a child......then that is where life wants me to be, and I guess I would be there for a reason...but I would not knowingly revisit my past to see how things have changed though.
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Don't worry, you won't see me in shorts at the next meet.;) My deja vu experience was a fleeting one. |
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Glad about that, I wouldn't be there to see you because I am on wheelchair duty again (folkestone.....and France, ooh la la missus). One day though i will shock you and turn up.
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i tend to always go back, but only in my mind;) probably summat todo with the fact i never grew up.:D never re-visted any place from childhood,just dont appeal somehow,
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My daughter goes to the same primary school that I went to, last week was her school disco, I've been in there several times and no flashbacks but we had to leave from a different exit, it was so strange because I remembered being on prefect duty standing by those doors grabbing anyone daring to speak on the way into school.
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I went to Moorhead when it was the High School and went back there as an adult when our church rented rooms there briefly for the Accrington members to meet in when there were too many of us to fit into Blackburn chapel. (We're back at Blackburn now since people moved away and people passed away.)
It did seem very strange being there again after so long and seeing what looked familiar and what had changed. Since then it has changed much more with the new extension which makes it twice the size. And I used to think it was big when I was there! Now I've been there many times since my girls became pupils but it no longer seems like the same school. |
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