View from Plateau
Here is a view from the old plateau today looking north...dead centre in the background of the photo you can see the site of where the glorious pyry was , alas now horrible greenery betwixt the flats (with the shops below) and Kenton Bar school :(
In the foreground there is a smashed goalpost, no doubt smashed by ghastly peasants from the bottom of the estate(if things are like what they were 30 years ago...)
Amazing how many trees obscure the junior school block. I seem to remember it had eight classrooms and ours was the one bottom left, Mr.Brown. It had some windows onto the other side where we could see the kitchen deliveries and the workmen finishing the big gas meter cupboard under the upper Plaza. (The Infant school wasn't quite finished in 1968).
ReplyDeleteI know exactly which classroom you mean, having served time in that cell myself! My last year was spent in cell bottom right, view south:the endless field and plateau now hidden by the trees as you pointed out and view north: Mr Johnstone's office and hartburn walk bungalows over the 'ha ha fence'...
ReplyDeleteMy first day there, I was taken into the office with my Mum to meet the Head Mistress whose name escapes me. One of the office ladies stood on a chair to push the button on the fire panel high up on the west wall- to ring the school bells for registration.
ReplyDeleteWe used to go upstairs top right classroom for French last lesson before break in the morning. One day Gavin Atkinson fell over the bannisters pissing about and knocked himself unconscious.
ha ha ha!...il est la imbecile!
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