Whitegate memories
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First Teaching Post at Marton Camp School
Hi Kids, I taught at Marton Camp School having left Loughborough Training College in Sept 1958 until I left to work in Outward Bound Schools in December 1959. Sadly, I have not kept in touch with other teachers, apart from Ed Cartner and Liz (Dom. Sci. teacher) who married and now live in Plymouth. I was also friendly with Howell Jones, Jackie Peake, Peter Booth and Mr. Carrick who was the other teacher in my Dorm. Pupils I remember, were a pretty girl called Dobson, Charlton whose sister was Assistant Matron, a Footballer called Johnson and Gordon Harrison, who had an unfortunate fall when camping in North Wales one weekend and was carried down Snowdon by a team of RM Commandos! I now live in Guernsey, will be 80 next month, but still Ski and Climb mountains. I hope someone will come up with some other names to jog my failing memory ! Alex Allan.
Marton Boarding School
I was at Marton Boarding School (if memory serves me well) from 1966 to 1968. What a place, when I arrived I was petrified, the oddball kid from Africa. I remember Taylor telling me to go back to Africa and play with my spears and also Pert Peter, who liked to lift us up by our sideburns mimicking our Gordi accent saying "Why haven't you your homework" and then replying for us "I don't know sir ". I can't remember the name of the Agriculture teacher, he always wore a sheepskin coat, he seemed OK and used to fall asleep when watching over us writing letters home in the evening. Movie night was great, all those old war movies, "The Cruel Sea " etc. Dance night was a nightmare, it really taught me how to be awkward around girls. I enjoyed working with the animals, the walks to the church and the crosscountry running. The trying to clean our PE clothes after wasn't fun though. I too used to... Read more
Teachers
Head, Humphery Waite, Peter the P, etc.
Yesterday
Hi, is anyone still remembering 1955, when the world was young?! I was at Marton from 1955 to 1957, in Delaval House. They were great days I won't ever forget. I still see a pal from school, Gordon Irwin, Stephenson House, also Joe Hume lives nearby in Stakeford...
Marton Boarding School
I went to Marton Boarding School from 1965. I have often given it a thought over the years. Yesterday I was in mid Wales and came back along that way. I decided to go and have a look. I went to Whitegate Church where we worshipped every Sunday. I went to the site of the school, it is now called The Paddock with very expensive and exclusive housing all in excess of a million pounds. A local told me Dean Saunders the footballer (or is it ex-footballer?) lives there. Thanks for the memories, Marton - you sorted me out!
Marton Camp Boading School
I went there in the late 1950s and was there for about 18 months. I can't remember much about the school or my friends, but if you have any photos I would be glad to see them. You can e-mail me at: bobby-green@live.co.uk. Looking forward to seeing them.
Marton Residential Boardiong School
I was a pupil at Marton from 1965 to 1967 and have many memories and some pictures. I was in Stevenson House, run by Truck Taylor and the Grey House, run by Billy Doyle. We were always under control so visits to the town were always to church. I'd like to know whatever became of the school, is it a housing development now?
Marton Boarding School
I attended the boarding school near Whitegate between 1965 and 1970. Each Sunday we walked the 3 miles or so to the church and back. I remember the dancing on the lawn in front of the church in May. I remember Whitegate as a smashing village and some 44 years later it still sometimes comes into my mind. As a young lad from Northumberland at the age of 11 I was frightened and homesick, played a lot of cricket and football and got into trouble from time to time. Thanks Whitegate, you are a good memory
Memories of Cheshire
The Blue Cap Hotel
My Grandparents Jack and Edna Williams ran The Blue Cap Hotel in Sandiway during my youth and my fondest memories are there, of Rooms 6 and 7, which would be allocated to my sister and I during our stays. There were garages out in the parking lot, one of which was turned into a temporary stable for my horse one summer. The Cheshire Hunt used to leave from the Hotel and although at the time I was too young to ride with them, I remember the smell of the sherry being handed out on silver trays at the pre-hunt gathering, then in majestic splendor, the hunt would move off the car park and down the dual carriageway before turning right into the woods across the street.
Sadly, my grandfather passed away at the old age of 97, two years ago, but Grandma is still going strong, retired and living in her own house in Rochdale, Lancashire. I have lots of pictures and movies of our time at The Blue Cap.... Read more
The Shops And Doctors at Sandiway 1956
We first arrived in Sandiway in 1956. I remember getting off the bus at the top of Mere Lane and walking down towards our new home in Cherry Lane. The house was a 'tied house' belonging to the ICI and our tenancy of it was dependant on my father working at the ICI. On our right near the top of Mere Lane was a small mere, or flash as they are called in Cheshire, in a field (now under Sandown Crescent!). There were no buildings on the right hand side of Mere Lane at all then and the view was was across fields for some distance. Just past the start of Ash Road on the left side of Mere lane as we were going there were (and still are) shops serving the local area. Some of the shopkeepers' names have stuck in my mind: there was a shop on the corner of Ash Road and Mere lane, I think it was a bakery then, later to become a clothing shop?,... Read more
Dark Ark Lane
My grandmother used to be terrified of going down Dark Ark Lane, probably in the late 60s and 70s, whenever we went to Delamere Forest for family days out.
Meadowbank Primary School
I attended Meadowbank with my two brothers from 1968-71 and can remember there only being about eighty pupils and four classrooms and a hall used for just about everything else including assembly and canteen. The toilets were situated to the rear of a small playground in what was a stable. I can remember sirens being sounded to warn of salt being blasted from local mine. I can also remember swimming and fishing in the River Weaver close to the school.
The Grange School
I went to a school called The Grange in Hartford. Does anyone know where it was, or if it still exists?
HL
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