Kingsbridge Grammar School
I attended KGS from 1952 - 1959.
The Old Grammar School seen in this picture had long been replaced by a much larger building in Westville, Kingsbridge.
For the first couple of terms, I remember walking in file from Westville, past the railway station, to this building where we sat on long benches and ate our school dinners.
It is a handsome building and now houses the William Cookworthy Museum.
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RE: RE: Kingsbridge Grammar School
I attended KGS from 1953-1961. I also remember walking from Westville to the old Grammar school for lunch, and also for speech day.
The short cut through Squeeze Belly Alley from opposite the chippy, it came out in Fore Street by a Hardware store I think. The problem was that along side the alley was a water course, not really a ditch more like a mini canal. Girls had to wear berets at all times in the street, guess what the boys did on the way to or from lunch!! Wet berets were not good to wear.
My name then was Mandy Lewis.
Comment from Amanda Newson-Webb on Tuesday, 3rd March 2009.
RE: RE: Kingsbridge Grammar School
My late husband Desmond Perring went to Kingsbridge Grammer School, he left about 1946. I went to Kingsbridge School and remember so well Squeeze Belly Alley when my friend and I used to go down town in our lunch hour and buy cough sweets, as you know sweets were on ration and that's the only ones we could get. I believe the people that owned the shop were called Cox. I have visited the Cooksworthy museum and really enjoyed it, my husband gave them his old school books.
Comment from Patricia Perring on Thursday, 2nd July 2009.