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| Old Photos of Berry Hill, Broadwell, Clearwell, Coalway & District | Christchurch Infants School 1935 | ||||||||||||||
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Courtesy of : |
Maurice Thomas | ||||||||||||||
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Row 3 : 1 ? Jones , 2 Brian Harris , 3
Graham Harris, 4 "Daddy" Baldwin, 5 Bob White , 6 Miss Dunkley. Maurice Thomas remembers the school as "A typical Victorian type
building adjoining the churchyard with outside "bucket" toilets.
The largest room housed top class juniors and had an open fire to the
rear
and a tortoise stove
at the front. You hoped to be seated within range of one or the other
in winter!. It was not unknown for mice to poke their heads from a gap
between floor and wall on the churchyard side. The playground was Forestry
land across the road. Celebrated Forest author Dennis Potter
attended the same school in 1940. He described
it
as "one-storeyed,
ramshackle ..... .with windows too high for a child to look out ....
had a bucket
to catch
the
wet from
the rotting roof. And five more buckets at the bottom of the sloping
yard as toilets" (1) |
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