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Wade Deacon GS for Girls continued

This winter’s task is to learn how to do this properly. Apologies to my techy friends! I am enjoying chatting on Facebook about my time at WDGS for Girls and of course my time spent at WDGS for Boys as a teacher, ten years later The school still looks the same, today, from a distanceContinue reading “Wade Deacon GS for Girls continued”

Wade Deacon Grammar School for Girls

I have neglected my blog for such a long time. Apologies but I still don’t know how to do this properly. Recently I have been on a Facebook page, sharing memories of school and I knew I must get back to this platform and write them down. I hope I don’t repeat myself but hereContinue reading “Wade Deacon Grammar School for Girls”

School Uniform in the 1960s

I am still trying to work out how to do this blog. I want to write it before all my memories disappear. I was born in 1946 in Highfield Road Maternity Home, next door to the Wade Deacon. In 1970 I gave birth to my first son in the same establishment. More of that experienceContinue reading “School Uniform in the 1960s”

Wade Deacon Grammar School for Girls

I am writing this in May 2021. At last we are beginning to emerge from the long incarceration of the Covid pandemic. I’m afraid I didn’t get down to writing more and indeed got somewhat apathetic. Life has been very strange and everyone, young and old have suffered the effects in some way. We feelContinue reading “Wade Deacon Grammar School for Girls”

Wade Deacon Grammar School for Girls

It is now January 2021 and we are in the middle of a Covid 19 pandemic. We now have a vaccine and hopefully will be able to regain some form of normality of daily life. I have been at home now for nearly a year with my husband. We know we are very lucky toContinue reading “Wade Deacon Grammar School for Girls”

More on my time at Simms Cross

I have very few memories of my time in class at Simms Cross. Apart from Miss Jones the names of teachers that come to mind are Miss Oliver, Miss Howard, Mrs McElroy, Mrs Hodgetts, Miss Green (later Mrs Lott) and the Headmistress, Miss Coates. We were all terrified of Miss Coates and one day IContinue reading “More on my time at Simms Cross”

Simms Cross and School Dinners

Those who know me are aware that I am a ‘fussy eater’ with many dislikes and a delicate stomach which has caused me many problems over the years. If I was nervous or worried when I was younger I could not eat and my stomach would reject food, if I tried to eat. This was,Continue reading “Simms Cross and School Dinners”

All change

Still trying to master blogging. Thank you for being patient. At least I have managed a few posts. Even achieved a title today! Just before we leave Hough Green School/ St Michaels Ditton Church of England School to give it its full name, a couple more memories surface. I remember sitting on the sandstone windowsill,Continue reading “All change”