Corby, St Brendan's Catholic School And Church c.1965
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Photo of Corby, St Brendan's Catholic School And Church c.1965

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The Junior School we see here was built in 1956, facing Cottingham Road, though the entrance is round the corner in Beanfield Avenue. This was a far-sighted, practical measure, for the traffic today is among the busiest in Corby, and the track in the foreground now goes through an underpass up to the periphery fence of the school. The church stands in the background, and a social centre/parish hall was opened between it and the school in 1968.

Memories of Corby, St Brendan's Catholic School and Church c1965

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Like many families, mine moved to Corby from Scotland in 1949. Our first home was in Stevenson's Way. We moved from Stevenson's Way to Chelveston Drive on The Lodge Park Estate in July 1952. I was 8, my little brother three and a half and my baby sister just two. I went to Our Lady of Walsingham School and had to walk as there were no buses. There was no Church either. However a small, plump Priest named Daniel Cronin ...see more