School Days
First school London Road Infants, a short time in Scotland and then the Church Infants, each school day walking from Theatre Street (two doors up from 'The Cherry Tree') through the market place and down Church Street. I moved on to the primary at the top of Theatre Street and eventually Crown Road. While at Theatre Street I would occasionally return to the bottom of Church Street to the 'rag and bone' yard with rabbit skins to supplement my pocket money.
I remember some 10 years later when I rode my motorbike from Theatre Street to the chemists at the top end of Church Street, made my purchase then walked out thinking of other things. It was when I got back to Bell Yard I realised my bike was still parked outside the chemist's. So much for being lazy.
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RE: RE: School Days
Iain, I think you and I shared the same classrom, certainly at Crown Road, and possibly at mid school at the bottom of Cemetery Road. I am not sure what happened after that. I went to work for Eric Rix, in Norwich Street, then got married and moved away, and apart from a short period in 1974, when I returned from Africa, I have only made short visits to the area. If I remember, our mothers were friends, did they not both work at HH Aldiss, and possibly Cluttons, in Norwich Street? My mother died at the end of last year, almost making her 100 years, which was sad. So the monument population of Dereham is getting less, but my cousin Michael has managed to stop the rot.
Comment from John Monument on Thursday, 21st January 2010.