School Days

Trying to recall my days at Gravesend Tech. College in about the 1948 time or maybe sooner, we used to have meals at the boys school down the road. Our year were the first into Wombwell Hall and how impressed we were. I think Mrs. Whittaker was our Science teacher and we used to call our typing teacher most unkindly as Clarabell as she used to sit above the class at the front and placed a cover over our keyboard if we so much as glanced downwards. Our R.I. teacher was a very emotional lady and used to actually cry when it was Eastertime and she took our class. I liked Mrs Pike the Pitmans Shorthand teacher and recall her as a very smart petite lady.I absolutely hated sport so the PE teacher did not really like me.The School also was deep into Shakespeare something else I was not keen on. I still have some of my old school. reports that my father saved. I was at that time Nita Jenkins. My close friend Audrey Howard went into the domestic science side of the College.

I was a boy at ' The Tech.' and remember clearly ogling the girls as they queued up the gloomy stairways to go into lunch. Lunchtimes brightened up our day!