The Dancing Class

What a prune!

Yes, I have to agree with your comment. However, I suspect that 13-year-old “prunes” were the norm in 1958 rather than the exception…

Thanks for the comments about about Brandon High or should I say the central, I enjoyed my time there and the dancing in the corridors stone floors and all was something else speech days were a nightmare , wood work was OK, set me on the path to being a builder moved to Canada in the early sixties then to Australia in the 70s teacher,s well , wee bud ,Blue Nose !! and some gym teacher can,t remember her name ,she was hot!!

BUDGIE.
THE HOT GYM TEACHER WAS MISS McCUISH I THINK THIS IS HOW YOU SPELL IT THE OTHER TWO WERE Mr SHERRY ( BIG EDDIE) AND THE YOUNGER ONE WAS Mr FERGUSON (BOMBA)

Ah yes – Miss McCuish! When pondering on school life “back in the day” I tried in vain to recall the name of the girls’ gym teacher. Thanks Bob for the reminder. Unlike Mr Sherry, Miss McCuish didn’t figure much in the daily life of the boys, at least not this boy – we normally only saw her during the dancing class when she ushered the girls into the gym for a session of “heel toe, and off we go”. If I remember correctly, Miss McCuish had jet-black hair and always wore a short navy blue gym skirt [very above-the-knee for the 1950s], white tennis shoes and a red cardigan. I used to think that she looked Italian, but her surname suggests she probably had a Celtic ancestry. It’s hardly surprising that not only male pupils considered her very exotic, but I suspect the male teachers did too!