General Chat

The cane, school dinners and the nit nurse...any more?

Kiss chase, skipping ropes and elastic

recorder lessons and they were always dipped in Dettol.yuk

Top and Whip, hopscotch, outside toilets freezing in winter!!!!

Linda x

Warm milk

French knitting with old cotton reels and three nails around them . the round knit went down the middle,what we were meant to do with it I.m not sure!!!

Well!! as a London evacuee to Kent I remember the Elson bin loos.What a stink they were!!

I remember if you rubbed your bum with orange peel the sting didnt hurt so much, although I was in the last year the girls got the cane.

After that is was a white slipper plimsole being lobbed at you or the chalk board rubber.

Casio..... they had just come up with digital watches and calculaters when I was at school.

Ousside loos, milk in winter with the top of from being frozen, dinner ladies telling you to eat your dinner cold water in winter and warm in summer. girls playground and boys had thiers Oh so many thinks.

Nit nurse, 'bumps' leather strap, hard seats with desks attached, teachers pointer, and separate playgrounds for boys and girls. Outside toilets, and big high walls. Felt like a prison. Oh! happy days lol

xx

Sitting on the HUGE Victorian radiators and warming hands under the hot tap in winter.

Using our dipping fountain pens as darts!

Elastic to hold socks up!

Cats cradle

Sue x

Round coke burning stoves with a high fire guard round then, high windows that you could only see the sky from.
Outside toilets that had doors that did not reach the ground & had 3 circular holes near the top.
The walk to & from school with my big sisters.

SueM Forgot about the elastic for your socks, that you mother always made too tight. Cats cradle. Inkwells were holes bored into the desks. Messy stuff

Dinner money being 2 shillllngs 2/- (10p)
Dick and Dora with Fluff the cat and Nip the dog
Gaynor :-)

Wooden pens with detatchable nibs to dip in the ink well, mine always seemed to had a crossed point, so my writting looked as if a spider had crawled across the page. lol

Slipper bags, gymslips, berets & caps with school badge on. Navy knickers - with pocket for hanky and liberty bodices.

Linda

Navy blue knickers.....a rope swing hanging from a tree was fun at playtime......dinner ladies cooking and serving the meals........the smelly outside toilets........the big metal wood-burning fire in the infants classroom.

Health and Safety weren't around then! lol

xx

Dinners cost 1shilling when I was at school, they arrived in insulated boxes & were dished out by the teachers & eldest pupils.

liberty bodices what were they about, rubber buttons down both sides of the front

powdered ink mixed with water,
ink monitors
Milk put round the coke burning stove to warm,
milk monitors
ice slides in the playground
slates to write on with chalk in the infants
milk bottle tops with a hole in the middle wound with raffia
the 'cycle of popular playground games :- marbles, skipping, collecting beads (for girls), five stone (dibs), hop skotch

Ann
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