St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Anyone remember school friends of that era?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Does anyone remember Miss Gardner, Miss Cookson, Miss Higham, Miss Mitchell, Miss Livesey, Joan Flanagan, Barbara Bentley, Colin Wilson, Anne Cunningham, Brilliant bopping girl, hot muffins-brought in at play-time from bakery next to St. Peter's?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Sorry not that era had a great time there in the 60s apart from miss BIRTCH .

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I think me dad went to st oswalds Anthony Flynn

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I started there in the Infants in 1950 .

My teachers were Mrs Edsforth , Miss Gardner ( head teacher ) but I can't remember who my first teacher was . It may have been Miss Mitchell . I recall a farewell do for her .

There was no junior section then , so you had to move to another school when you were about 7 .

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

After I left school. Loved St Oswald's except for Mr Bruynseels. He scared me-I think I may have scared him!

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Was your daddy named Bernard?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Or was it his cane Stephanie:D

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

There was a Mrs. Edsforth taught at St. Anne's in the 60s, must be the same?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

we lived on the ferngore during that period half the kids on the estate went to st oswalds a few names I remember john and jim prior and the finns who went on to be great crown green bowlers like there father who seemed to be the champion every year

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Yes . She taught me in the infants at St Oswald's and then in the juniors at St Annes .

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Mrs Edsforth taught me in the juniors at St. Anne's. Thankfully I managed to avoid Mr. Pedersen, except for football.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

After my time .

Was Mr Kelly still head teacher when you were there ?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

He was when I was there, the old ######

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Mr. William Patrick Kelly, gardening in the grotto next to the church, remember him well.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Hi JCB, was the teacher, whose name you don't remember, Mrs. Mc Gowan. She was my first teacher there when I started in 1946. My sister started school there but was 3 years younger than me and she was taught by Mrs. McGowan. You may have been in the same class as her. Mrs Edisford's son Jim was in the same class. When I returned to St Oswalds, from St. Annes, I don't remember if Mrs. McGowan was there or not. I think that Mrs. Mitchel was a senior school teacher. I remember the name but I was never taught by her.
Best regards T.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Hello Tetti , the name McGowan rings a bell .

I don't remember Jimmy Edsforth at St Oswald's , but he was in the same 11 plus class as me at St Anne's , and his mum was the teacher . Poor lad .

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

His mother always called him James - he was a year ahead of me at St Anne's & St Mary's Blackburn - and suddenly disappeared in the 3rd form - never know what happened to him!

I remember his mother screeching at him "James Edsforth - come here this instant!"

Mrs Edsforth was a good teacher though - got me through 11+ (and I've still got the bruises to prove it! :eek: )

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Yes that wobbly cane , covered in sellotape to keep it in one piece . She must have had it since she began teaching .

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

No, Jaysay, it was his scowl and he used to stand behind my chair in class and just linger. He knew I was stuck with the geography and I think he enjoyd that so that when I handed in my efforts he could shout at me. Do they call that bullying these days? Loved my English, history, music, composition etc. I think he was just a pig and pigs tend to stick in your memory-well in mine, anyway.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I was taught by Miss Mitchell-music and drama-Shakespeare. Strangely I can still remember what I learned, and her face. She taught us to sing-'On a tree by a willow a little Tomtit, Sang willow tit willow tit willow. I've been watching out for those birds ever since but never come across any! I was a very imaginative child!

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

No, I hid it and even though we were kept in after school until somebody told, nobody dobbed me in-great!

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Thats right!

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

During the war years the older boys at St Oswald's had to "Dig For Victory" and we did our best to grow food which would later be sold at the school.

Anyone remember doing this? George Holden

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

springhill council school did a similar thing but the whole class did the digging springhills garden was a patch taken off farmer nelsons farm field which after the war became richmond road

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I can remember Nelson's farm , where Slaidburn Drive is now .

Can you recall just where the patch you worked on was ?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

springhill school garden was very nearly opposite the bottom of moorhouse avenue

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Hi JCB, No it wasn't Mr Brunseels cane but his manner which scared me. I had a way of dealing with unpleasant things like canes-I hid them! Nobody dobbed me in even under threat of being kept back in class. Apart from that, I loved my school days and cried the day I left! Wish I knew what happened to my old mates though.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I remember growing turnips, George. Lovely they were, too!

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I have looked at this topic before but did not recognize any names I think I started in the infants when I was 3 or 4 but that could be wrong so that would be 1948 ish. I remember a Mr Bruynseels mentioned in Stephanie Wallaces post and I can remember Tony Lord who was the same class as I was but this has stretched my one grey cell to the limit

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Hi Tony, If you started school in '48, then you would only be 7 and I was leaving school. I loved St Oswald's - except for Mr Bruynseels - and cried the day I had to leave school! Did you? Steph.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Sorry about the confusion I created Stephanie I was refering to the infants I never went to the juniors I went to Saced heart juniors
Tony

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Hi Stephanie the classmates I remember were John Wilson, Mick Smith, Mick Aspinall and Anne Cunningham

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Philomena Williams ,Tony Flynn ,Patricia ? (now Jackson)I believe they all went to St Oswalds and all in the same class ....ring any bells ?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

My Husband went to St Oswalds and left in 1946. Mr Herbert Marra was headmaster then, and the other male teacher was Mr Lawrence ( Gussy) Ireland, who taught Standard seven, and who later, was appointed head of Sacred Heart school. You will remember then, the school garden in Richmond Rd, which was run by Gussy, and the mothers used to come after school on a Friday afternoon to buy the produce. Three of the girls in my husbands class were Margaret Smith, Maureen Barrett and June Gardiner. Did you know any of those?. You may have know my husbands younger sister Margaret Mooney.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

would Margaret Smith have been a slim lass? used to know one that was, much older n me, aint seen her fer years, assume shes no longer around.?

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

The Smith family lived on Whalley Rd, Accrington side of the Bridge. He seems to think George was the eldest, a very good footballer, then Billy, Margaret, a good netball player, Kathleen and Tony. Their Mother was a terrific St Oswalds supporter and was there at every event, football, netball, swimming, you name it, you could hear her above anyone else cheering the the school on.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

He would not say she was slim, Cashman, but was very athletic and fit. Most of the Smiths were. She is the same age as my husband and would be 81 this year.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Yeh thats the same family, Tony was a mate of mine, Died many years ago in Carlisle, Still see Kathleen n hubby around town, they always say hello, But Margaret i aint seen fer many years. The exact house they lived in on Whalley Rd, was the first one past the Whalley Rd Methodist Church,a short row wi n off license at Castle st end, was in it quite a few times in 60s.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Does your better half remember Patricia Cooney from st Oswalds

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

I left St Oswalds in1953 prior to that I was at St annes. Happy times.

Brian Arkley.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Yes , happy days.I left 51/2

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

No, he remembers members of the Cooney family going to St Oswalds. His classmate friend Derek Kennedy,lived in Ranger St, and he thinks the Cooneys lived around the corner in Canning St. But it is nearly 70years since he left St Oswalds, and his memory is going a bit thin.

Re: St Oswald's School-1940-1950
 

Anyone remember Bryan Gregory, born 1933? Any photos?