School Days

A Memory of Flimby.

I lived on Flimby Brow with my mum dad and sister Vivenne I remember Annie Cars sweet shop and the three sisters. At Flimby school was 'Old Bessie' Hamilton and head mistress was Miss Downs I remember the vicar Kelly Pompom and went to school with John Brown, John Peel, David Farrel, Ian Robly, Stanley Dickinson butcher's son Roger Scales and John Mason. Playing rugby and football on the Rec, swimming, cowboys and indians in Flimby wood collecting wood for the Rec bonfire, the women making the floats with coloured paper for the carnival in the barn at the bottom of Flimby brow, having to get hair cut in the barbers opposite the railway bridge I remember watching black and white films in the miners hall