The Puddydale School

i was at the puddydale school otherwise known as kitchens college from 1942 to 1952 how many of us are left from that period. John Wilding.

Although I attended Pensby Council School, my uncle, Arch Richter, was headmaster of Heswall Council School next to the Puddydale until about 1942. My friends and I would play "cowies and indians" amongst the gorse bushes by the quarry on the Puddydale after going to the Saturday matinee at the Kings Cinema and then we would call in at my uncles in Grove Ave. opposite the school to get "windblowns" from his orchard and to play with the megaphone he used to address the kids at his school.Then it was up to the water tower for more cowies and indians on the common on the way down to Irby Road. This would all have been around 1937 to 1941.

I attended the Puddydale School 1962/63. I lived in Heswall at the time on Woodcroft Drive. I remember the gorse areas well, great for hide and seek! I also remember having to make a snow scene from an egg box and washing powder mixed with water which set hard - one of the children brought in Daz and their snow was blue! I used to think that Paul McCartney lived in one of the houses I passed when walking to school. Fanciful thinking! My name then was Gillian Moores. I moved to Essex when I went into Y1, although I was only there a short time I remember the school with affection.

My name was Dilys Denman, my parents were Robert & Eveline, brother Geoffrey and sisters Prudence & Julia, my brother and I I went to the school on the Puddy dale, I was 8 & my brother 12. We were all born at 11 Laurel Avenue, Heswall. We were a family of 6, my father worked at Cammel Lairds. Ship Builders in Birkenhead. We migrated to Melbourne, Australia in December 1950.