Room 30 on the back corridor

I am hoping to write about my time spent in various schools , first as a pupil and then a teacher.

My computer skills are non-existent so please bear with me. I hope to improve them in the process.

My first school was in Hough Green village, Widnes, Lancashire. It was attached to St Michael’s Church so I think it was Ditton C of E school. My oldest memory is of looking at the school and being told I would be going there, like my older brother, David Huntingford.

I must have been about four at the time. My brother was four years older than me. We lived in Lancaster Avenue, an unmade cul de sac consisting of nine houses, off Netherley Road which led from Hough Green to Tarbock.

In those days , the early 1950s our houses were surrounded by fields and we enjoyed walks, exploring woods, blackberrying and in my brother’s case bird-watching. It was a lovely place to spend our childhood. Our parents bought their house in 1939 and only left it in 2001 when our Father died.

My Father D J Huntingford spent his entire career teaching at the same school namely Wade Deacon Grammar School for Boys, in Widnes. He would tell me later that I was more experienced than him as I taught at three schools in two years and he taught at only one!