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One Sunday afternoon in May 2000 I were driving down Union Road in Ossy approaching my old school and listening to Desmond Carrington on Radio 2 playing music from the 50’s when for one fleeting moment it seemed like I was back in that time. I stopped and took this photograph.
Thanks for the old photo Atarah and it looks like the school hasn’t changed at all in all those years. You can use my ‘modern’ picture if you want Atarah.
The Rhyddings’ girls used to use our football pitch size playground after school hours to play netball or rounders and we of course gave them vocal support until their teachers told us to clear off.
In spite of what we thought at the time ASTS was a good school. Once a week we were taken to King George’s playing fields to play football or cricket and once a week we went to the baths just a bit lower down than Scaitcliffe Street pit for swimming lessons. But then the school hours were from 9 until 12 and 1 until 4 so there was time for these ‘outings’. We didn’t get cluttered up with silly lessons. Just maths, English, geography, history, science, art, technical drawing, music, RE, French, PE, games and half a day each for woodwork and metalwork down in a building that was behind the Grammar School. We had an annual sports day at the Church cricket ground and a town sports day as well as the school swimming gala and a town swimming gala. Best of all was the cake shop next door to the school where we could buy hot muffins or penny loaves of bread also still hot.
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