St John's School And Church

A Memory of Darwen.

Hi - I don't think anyone will remember me. Jennifer Adcroft. I went to St John's School for a couple of years. I think I would have been four or five. My dad was the caretaker there and looked after St John's Church as well. One thing I remember about school was that I learnt how to lace and tie a shoe. That is as much as I can remember. We lived on Ratcliffe Street and had such fun. We use to dance round a maypole when it was coming up to the beginning of May. There were allotments at the end of the street and we would go and help ourselves to the rhubarb that was growing through the fence. I think my father kept hens on one of the allotments. Across the road was a butchers. My cousin Marilyn Pickup also lived on Ratcliffe Street. Happy days. Carefree days and memorable Days. We left Darwen when I was 10 or 11 and went to live in Ingleton in Yorkshire.