A Great Wee School
I recall my first day at Our Lady and St Joseph's in Glenboig, Sept. 1962, Miss Docherty our teacher who rapped my knuckles when I wrote with my left hand, no longer after I relayed the story to my Mother! Words were axchanged and I still write left handed!Great times, at the loch, the Inchie,and in and around the brickworks, innocent days. I am writing a book and Glenboig features heavily, along with the school and pals there, Elliot,Cassidy,Stark,Bolger, Caddle, Mc Cormick et al. Mrs Hughes,H/Tr my form teacher Miss Duffy,with whom I was madly in love!! This despite not knowing what love was until much later in life!!! Aztec bars from Janets sweetie shop, Malky the lollipop man, the chapel next door, my wee brother Michael performing "on Mother Kelly's Doorstep" under the expert tutelage of Mrs Hughes at the school concert. Witnessing the awful accident which killed the grandson of our school Janitor, Mr Mc Cann, a terrible memory of a very happy school. Wearing the light blue school football strip, watching Tommy Harvey score yet another hatful of goals against whatever poor goalie was in front of him! Saturday Fetes at the Institute next to the school, all great times, anybody out there,attended St Joe's at the same time? Fleming, Berry, Mc Namara,Hand,?
James Kelly
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