Luton, The Library And War Memorial c.1950

Photo ref: L117026

The lovely talented and sophisticated Miss Bartlett took the youngest class. I think she may have been to art school cos she drew a Spanish Conquistador (complete with sailboat steel helmet) in coloured chalk on the blackboard, dressed fashionably and smoked orange filtertipped cigarettes. Mr Cripts next door toiled to improve our reading, (tho I felt a bit peeved when he later married the lovely Miss B). Mrs Brown, (who ...see more

Of course l did'nt realise how picturesque the building was when l was a pupil there 1955-1958. Fortunately, Edward Callum did and his painting is "normally" displayed in Wardown Museum. (Hopefully in its entirety cos little more than the janitors cottage is shown on my ph?? On that sunny day in 1969, he managed to capture the colours of the masonry handsomely. This junior boys school sat squarely at ...see more

For about 6 wks prior to joining the navy in 1963, I worked at the Fyffes banana warehouse in Williamson St. (in photo). It paid about 3 quid a week (and all you could eat). Still, a handy easygoing fill-in job for a naive halfwit 15yr old about to take the Queens shilling and sea the world. The bananas arr. from the West Indies, on the stems and were hung in the firm's hot rooms to ripen, before being cut and boxed for ...see more

I remember getting off a bus in Upper George Street with my dad and walking down towards George Street and I saw the library and said what's that pointing - my dad said "It's a library and you borrow books from there". I was amazed and wanted to borrow a book but my dad said "We're buying your shoes today" - one of several even earlier memories of how much time I spent with my dad when I was little. I had two younger ...see more