General Chat

I was a milk monitor, had the high class job of pushing the straws in the bottle tops! I remember being made to eat Semolina Pudding by one of the dinner ladies at least once a fortnight! hated the stuff Yuk! I Remember the Nit Nurse ( Nitty Nora the Bug Explorer) coming around once a year and the school dentist. Had some great times though, loved practically every minute of my school days. Happy Days! Marie : )

I was doing National Service, just outside Tewksbury and we were in the huts on camp and the sirens went off, I had a shiver and felt quite cold, though I did not consiously remember the sirens during the war, but deep down I must have, it turn out that was how they called the firemen to the station, opposite our school was a Baragge Balloon site and air raid warden post. On the way to school was a bomb site which had been turned into a water reservoir and nitty nora lived opposite it. I remember my Mum saying that the Salvation Army Building saved us when a bomb dropped in Wood Green High Road. James

Hateful primary school memory - got thumped in the back repeatedly by Reverend Mother for shouting in the play ground, and bashed by Sister Mary John for being unable to read the word GIGANTIC! Can't think of anything good - Hated school! Tina

Two more nice memories their folks. Did Nora stand you all on a newspaper to catch.......?(just picked yours up, thanks tina Marie) And Sandra re below - the same to you. thanks for the interest. Happy days

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School days were OK days - don't think they have as much fun nowadays - and do they still have milk monitors ? My mother would go on about the times that she had at school so maybe it comes round for us all. One thing I did find in my mothers' 'stuff' after she died was a 'medal' about the size of an old penny with LCC emblem on one side and King George V on the other with mum's name engraved round the rim. I don't know what this 'medal' was for but have had various views - good conduct, not missing a day off school, and others. You any ideas ? I do remember the most embarrassing time (well it was to me !) and that was when I was taken down to a shop in Woolwich to get some new short trousers for school and mum and the shop-keeper would keep talking about me having new knickers ! That was embarrassing - didn't they know that girls wore knickers - not boys ! and dressing on the right or left ? What was that about then ? Oh dear, the trials of being a boy !!!

Oh School days, Infants school would be the same boy every morning screeming and crying, saying he didn't want to come to school, and the teacher having to prize him off his mum, then 15 mins later,he was fine... Then moved away and joined new junior school... 1 boy having to do PE in his purple Y fronts... Hee Hee. Secondary school, Same boy every morning screemong and cruing, saying he didn;t want to come to school, and the teacher having to prize him off his mum... YES moved back to old area. Kila