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From
Joan Bancroft (Nee Waldron) Moreton, Wirral, Cheshire
I am writing to you after seeing the item on the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ News this evening
about Alma Park School. As an old (very old) ex pupil I was delighted
to know that it was still there, although it did look somewhat different
to what it was like in my day!
I passed
the scholarship and eventually moved on to the Levenshulme High
School for girls (as it was then known). It certainly brought back
memories.
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instance, the Headmaster at that time was Mr Nevis. I remember too
the celebrations for the Silver Jubilee of King George V and Queen
Mary. We had red, white and blue bunting strung across the playground,
and the girls wore white dresses, and we had red, white and blue
plaited bands around our heads and wrists for dancing.
Thank
you for taking the time to read my letter and bringing back so many
memories. I wish the school every success in the future.
From
Bryan Hamilton
Reading John Wiggets memories of Levenshulme. I was born at 13
Midway Street in 1934. The strange thing about that street was the
houses on the left(odd numbers) were in Levenshulme but the houses
on the opposite side were in Longsight. In 1939 we lived at 2 Elbow
Street and I started my education at St Peters' Church of England
school where the headmistress was Miss Hoole. I left school in 1949
and started work as a farm labourer at a dairy farm ot the the top
of Matthews Lane and, as John recalls, we nilked the cows in the early
morning, cooled the milk, put some in bottles but most in churns.
We then hitched the horse to the milk float and delivered milk staright
into customers jugs all round the Manor estate and beyond.
From
Myra Daisy Paddock
The enclosed page is part of my autobiography written especially for
my immediate family, however I thought one particular paragraph may
be of interest to you.
I started at Alma Park School in 1932 but was only there for approx
18 months. At that time, Mrs Bell was the headmistress. Incidently
my name was then Hatton.
‘Soon after this I started school. Trevor was already at school, so
I was now beginning to grow up. We went to Alma Park School, and on
my first day there I got smacked. Even to this day, I still feel it
was an injustice. Four 5 year olds were sat around small tables with
a vase of flowers in the middle, around which we had to work and I
accidently knocked this vase of flowers over. I was made to wipe up
the mess, then got smacked as well! However, it didn’t put me off
school, apart from that one incident I was very happy and soon settled
down to my new routine. We had a large field by the side of the school
and during the summer we would take our chairs and slate and chalk
and sit outside doing our lessons.’ |
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