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My Days at Salfords School
I was at the old Salfords school from 1951 to 1957 just before it moved to the new site in Copsleigh Avenue.
We started in Miss License's class where I remember playing in sand trays and writing on slates. She was a very kind teacher.
The playground was small but we used to play all sorts of games there; conkers, marbles, making house layouts from leaves and racing cars. I remember one very icy day we made a slide from the top of the playgound to the bottom and one lad hit the air raid shelter and had to be taken to hospital.
The teaching was very traditional; learning tables by rote and copying letters, but there was always football on the common to enliven the day.
The big event in the final year was the 11+ exam and the results for the school were quite impressive, I think about 8 of us from a class of 25 gained a place at grammar school.
The worst job in... Read more
Salfords School
I too went to Salfords school and have very fond memories of my time there. I rememeber when the school nurse used to come and check everyone and we had to wait outside Miss Rosiers office in our vests and knickers!!!
We used to play rounders on the common, and one day I was batting and Mr Thatcher's daughter( not THE Mrs Thatcher)Christine was bowler, I hit the ball and it hit her straight in the mouth!!!!
The best memory though is that my next door neighbour used to come and meet me after school with my transport home - a pony!!!
My Time at Salfords School
I started at Salfords school when I was about five around 1935. My first teacher was Miss Licence. Later I had Miss Kick and Miss Ferguson. There were no male teachers. The headmistress was Miss Atherton who had an Austin 7. My father would often take off her very deliberate hand signals.
Before the war I remember there was a glow in the sky one night which my Dad, Cyril Hutchings, told me was Crystal Palace burning down.
I was rather chatty in class and one of the punishments I was given was to be told to sit next to a lad who was known to be smelly! Can you imagine that! What must he have thought?
I also sat next to Betty Springer. She was dark and very pretty but very conscious of being Jewish. I told her not to worry as I might be Jewish too! She was a good friend.
I lived in Siwah, Woodside Way, near to the school, where the Vance... Read more
Salfords School 1939 to 1946
I well remember going to Salfords School at the age of 5. Miss Licence was my first teacher, after the roll call every morning we would start most days by singing 'All Things Bright and Beautiful'. Miss Atherton was the head mistress, I remember her coming to school every day in her Black Austin 7 car, she would drive across the playground and park in the open fronted building on the A23 side. The school was just as others have already said, the sliding partitions dividing the main classrooms, all the cloths pegs for coats etc, the basins for washing your hands, the upstairs area which was rather small. Outside, the playground and the green area with trees on both sides, the air raid shelters and of course the outside toilets at the back. I'm not too sure but I think we used to walk to the Village Hall in Salfords every day for our school dinners. I remember all the shops, especially Mr Kennedy in the butchers and Mrs Pratt... Read more
Salfords School
I too have some memories of Salfords school, namely Stephen Ford my buddie who cut his knee on a tent peg, my first sight of blood!(Any relation to Richard Ford?) My mum went to this school, her name was Audrey and we lived in Copsliegh Avenue. I had a crush on Valerie Chatten or Chattden who lived three doors away. Myself and brother Alan played in the woods half way up the avenue,including the large field at the back. I was born in 1949 so I cannot remember what year the school moved to Copsliegh Avenue.
Salfords 1941 - 1966
I was born in 1941. My family lived in Honeycrock Lane, Salfords. The name of the house was "Bethel", later numbered No.17 by the Council. We had a neat clipped hedge to the front garden and a white painted picket gate from Ryall & Edwards, the local timber merchants whose lumber yard was next to Salfords Halt, the railway station. My father came to live in Salfords in the 1930s. His name was Bert Horsnell and he worked as an inspector at the Monotype. During the Second World War he was an Air Raid Warden (like Hodges on "Dad's Army"!). Although quite young, I remember being taken to the air raid shelters during air raids. There were two lots of shelters in the village, one complex situated up the old Monotype Lane and the other one next to the station. I remember VE Day quite clearly. Flags and bunting were put up all along Honeycrock Lane and there was a children's party in a marquee set up on the car... Read more
Salfords Memories of A Small Boy
We lived in Salfords from about 1948-1952, at the top of Honeycrock lane. Yes Angela, you did pay in the cubicle in the butcher's and the baker's shop was Cakebread's - very appropriate. I went to the old school, Mr Mackay taught us in the top class but he left and Mr Hutchinson took over. I remember them reading Tom Sawyer to us - I can almost hear it now. We each had a drawing of a man with 10 balloons on the wall. As we learned a new table we had a coloured sticker for that balloon. 2x,5x and 10x were quite quick but it took me ages to learn my 7x table and get that balloon sticker! I'm not sure of the other teachers' names but I think Miss Atherton was headmistress and Miss Kick took the class below me. Yes, the loos were freezing and the ice slides were great! I managed to pass the common entrance exam and went on to... Read more
Salfords Village
I can remember so many old shops in Salfords. My favourite must be the newsagent which sold sweets and bottles of pop by the door. It also sold some toys and cards. The greengrocer's had a lovely old silver till which I can just about remember before decimilisation.
My first bike came from Pratt's the cycle shop. It was gold with white tyres and I treasured it. The chemist was very old fashioned and owned by Miss Tullet. The Kennedy Butcher's had sawdust on the floor and you paid a lady who sat in a cubicle{I think}
I went to school when Miss Rosier was the headmistress and Father George used to come and take the assembly from time to time. I remember Mrs Slade and Miss Ruecroft and Mr Wright who said there was no such word as' can't.'
When my friend Wendy and I were older we used to go to the Prince Albert and occasionally get banned for dancing on the tables. It was all quite... Read more
