Walking Miles to School

[Caz]

Bradshaw St, Church To Accy High School (Cromwell) regularly to save busfare and top up my spending money!

[West Ender]

From age 5, I went from West End to St Mary's School, on Moscow Mill St, then later to Paddock House. It was either the Blackburn bus (46) to Church Commercial, then leg it up Union Rd., or the (267) Ribble bus from Spread Eagle St. to the Palladium. Coming home in Summer I would walk up to Ash St. then across the fields to the Swanee on Thwaites Rd. There was a lovely sewer pipe across Tinker Brook that just begged to be walked/balanced across and the rest of the way was just a cinder track.

My dad got his first post-war car when I was 10. He never, ever gave me a lift to school - good grief, I had legs!

[Morecambe Ex Pat]

Originally Posted by K.S.H.

So who won the bet?

A friend takes her son (12) to school in the car, a distance of almost a mile!
I said I used to walk further than that to Junior School and he didn't believe me. Not really a bet but I will show him this thread and that should convince him.

St. Mary's school on Moscow Mill Street, I remember playing in there when it was being demolished. The 'Dangerous Building Keep Out' signs didn't really put us off. We were living on a building site then so construction sites were our playgrounds. Never did us any harm although we never did any vandalism apart from crashing one of the dumpers into a hole in the ground.

[panther]

Me and my son walk everyday to school, from near ossy mills all the way to moorend, it only takes us 15 minutes
I know some parents who only live around the corner from the school and use their car!!.....bloody lazy buggers!!

[Neil]

Originally Posted by panther

Me and my son walk everyday to school, from near ossy mills all the way to moorend, it only takes us 15 minutes

It can take that long in a car with the traffic.

[polly]

Walked all the way from Fielding Lane to St Pauls in Ossy almost every day for 3 or 4 years and loved it.
First of there was the natural beauty and stillness of the park, especially early morning and then delight of delights fully formed adventure playground in the shape of Bush Meadow Street which at that time was derelict and awaiting demolition.
These empty properties were our early morning playground, no floor boards, free ranging rats the size of cats, broken glass and the odd tramp, such fun.
Of course school and parents always lectured us about not going near the old houses but we ignored them.

[jaysay]

Always walked to school, first from Monarch Street down Union Road on moscow Mill St to St Mary's. Then of to the Holy Family ( Mt. Carmel) when it opened, used to come home for dinner as well, but always walked, well run really at lunch time, was into cross country in a big way in those days, there was a school bus morning and night which picked up at the Palladim in the morning and dropped you there at night, but rarely bothered with it, except sometimes in winter when it was lagging it down, never liked sittin in the class room all morning in wet clothes

[Studio25]

I used "Google Earth" to measure how far I used to walk to/from school. It was ½ mile each way. It seemed like ten times as far, back then.

It's 50% further to walk from home to the studio, and even though I'm now four times older, I think nothing of walking just because I can't be dealing with the stress of incompetent drivers, although these days the dog cr*p I have to avoid while walking more than makes up for the stress saved by leaving the car at home. I used to walk 1½ miles each way in London to avoid the tube.

[panther]

Just worked mine out on google too

9 miles a week!, 36 miles a month!!, thats not including me walking back and forth picking him up.....