National School ,Grove Street ,Retford In The 50’s

A Memory of Retford.

During my time at the National school , a couple of children in my class said they had stomach ache , so the teacher told thenm to sit outside on a chair till home time, my friends and I thought that sounds good as it was a lovely summer day. So we put our hands up and complained that we too had stomach ache . So we joined several others sitting outside in the sun till Home time. That I think was a Friday because as we were getting ready for school when the postman came with a letter telling our parents to keep us home from school till further notice , as there has been dysentery going around the schools . The letter had two stool test kits enclosed.The time off school continued into the school summer holidays , That was the longest school holidays and the best fun , as none of us (including friends that had said they had stomach ache as well) were sick at all.

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