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19-05-2004, 10:02
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Re: old school friends
I will definately agree on both the last points.Although the best teacher i had ever had ' Les Newton' at Rhyddings allowed us to use his first name in the 5th year nadhe was the most respected teacher we had
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19-05-2004, 10:15
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Re: old school friends
The next thing that needs doing is the re-introduction of corporal punishment, whether the kids like it or not. In fact, on the first day of re-introduction it should be the case that every kid between the ages of 11 & 16 be given 6 of the strap on each hand, just to let them know what it's all about. Anyone objecting, expel 'em. Believe me, within a day the masters would be back in charge of the schools and the kids would be standing up to address them, "yes sir, no sir...etc"
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19-05-2004, 11:53
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Re: old school friends
I have to say that you are right about bringing back corporal punishment tealeaf, never did me any harm,i had my share of the cane in junior school.The education system soon went downhill when the do gooder's put a stop to it.
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19-05-2004, 12:51
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Re: old school friends
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,i had my share of the cane in junior school.t.
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19-05-2004, 13:34
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Re: old school friends
Things have changed beyond belief. I loved St. Andrews school in Russia Street, 1952-1956. Headmaster was Mr.Dean, great bloke with a tremendous energy for kids and motivation. I left there as the top of the class, happy as a mudlark, and went on to Ossy Tech.
Talk about chalk and cheese....Mind you I was well into puberty and smoked, drank(served 'em in short pants in them days), and ....(believe it or not) went with Girls!!!. Well that didn't go down too well with the Headmaster Lol Marsden...who took an instant dislike to me. 3 years later it was ....LEAVE or be EXPELLED!!!!
So I left....simple.....
Then came the realisation.....I needed educating and at least "O" levels. So off to the Royal Navy...where I learned (amongst other things)..how to drink, smoke, go with women, and do dirty tricks, have fun, travel the world, and all at the taxpayers expense. Unfortunately, there was a catch-----discipline. Anyway I survived and ended up with 6 "O" levels and a HND (Higher National Diploma). So school was a (a) good start (b) bad middle patch (c) and a leader to the real world.
Take heart kids.....life is around the corner!!
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19-05-2004, 21:17
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Re: old school friends
Aye them were the days Darby.Remember them well
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19-05-2004, 21:53
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Re: old school friends
LOL Mik do you remember David Bowie at the Texico petrol station now them were the days LMAO
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20-05-2004, 06:27
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Remember that and the ones at the top house on Leyland street.Still can not get over that car!
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20-05-2004, 16:22
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Re: old school friends
Aye them were the days..I miss Leyland street and the sense of community we all shared...now a days you cant even get to know your next door neighbour..they were good old days but bad old day too..does anyone remember making your own brand of juice from spanish and water yuk..or perfume from rose petals and water..hhmm water was used a lot back then..but then again it was free LOL..I knew a family who lived on Blackburn road who used to get their bowl of weetabix cornflakes whatever and run it under the cold water tap instead of milk...my mum was horrified when I told her..oohh yes same family used soot and salt to clean their teeth with..any one else remember this sort of stuff I love to talk about it...Linda
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20-05-2004, 16:37
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Re: old school friends
Aye...them were t'days....a nice cobblestone for t'christmas dinner...a tin bath, every 4 years (whether you needed it or not)..one pair o boots betwwen us ..20 sleeping to a bed & another 20 under it...lovely stuff. Aye, we'd not much, but we were 'appy.
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20-05-2004, 21:16
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Re: old school friends
BOOTS, i prefared the clogs we had, always felt bigger when it snowed & loved sparking um on the flags , eh eh eh.
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21-05-2004, 07:14
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Re: old school friends
Had the clogs and the tin baths.Not to forget the jerry under the bed ( potty ) to all you yung uns, and the toilets in the back yard.Plank wi a hole in it put over a big hole
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21-05-2004, 12:40
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Yep. . None of this indoor plumbing rubbish. The term for it was a "Tippler", (Read carefully, you young 'uns, because you've never lived unless you've sat on a proper Bog). The principle was quite simple: the waste fell down the hole (usually) and was collected in a metal, 'V' shaped container; when the container - the tippler - was full (usually after about a week) the thing tipped over on springs and deposited it's load into the main sewer pipe. Sometimes, though, it got stuck - and this is where the washing line prop (also kept in the back yard) fulfilled it's secondary function - as a large poking stick, down the hole, on order to assist the tippler in the disgourging of it's contents. Ah, those were the days.
There was none of this nonsense either with "Andrex" or similar Asda own label. We used the previous days Daily Mirror, each page making 4 sheets. Still, somethings never change; thats what it was fit for then, and thats all it's fit for now.
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21-05-2004, 20:18
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Will agree wi ya there Tealeaf.Used to get all the news then and some extra use out of it too.Thinking about it after they banned wrapping up the stuff from the chippy in newspaper then our bums should be well toxicated eh?
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22-05-2004, 06:34
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Re: old school friends
My Nan had a toilet in her yard, it was freezing, also that hard toilet roll that didn't really absorb anything, it was awful.
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