Here is a photo I found during more extensive research in a library... I remember the football team played for the 'Bagnall Cup' and played 'derbys' v St Cuthbert’s and also v Mountfield, North Fawdon, Wyndham, Montague and Snow Street (we and everyone else always thrashed Snow Street at least 12-0-their home pitch was at an angle of 45 degrees...) Note the' flag pennants' which were inspired by the Leeds United strip from the 1973-74 season on the socks of some of the kids in the front row...these had the numbers of the players on. the 10 first team players are all wearing the blue top with yellow hoop:the' subs' are wearing... whatever! It looks like they must have won the Bagnall cup that year! Anyone recognise themselves or any of the players?... (The tecka is Mr Brownlaw, a true gentleman...) PS:Photo not taken at Kenton bar school-note the basketball net-maybe taken at Kenton school?...) Kenton Bar Pyramid Appreciation Society
Memory 1: Anyone remember the mobile dentists van that visited the school twice a year? I remember it being a sinister looking grey van that used to park at the bottom of the ramp near the back entrance to the school kitchens. It always emitted a kind of weird chemical smell. It was like a cross between an Airstream caravan and a mobile library wagon. I was never unlucky enough to be a patient at the mobile dentists because I went to another one in West Denton for some reason. However – I was always scared that my name would be called and I would disappear into the grey van……………. never to be seen again. The windows were opaque – spooky……….. 
I remember this prefab building...it faced south and was placed in front of the lower west south facing classroom of the junior block(actually to the east of the infant block)...incidently, according to Rutter's Ryder & Yates book, the infant classrooms were originally designed to be those of the ground floor of the junior block...when I arrived there this was not so:there was a purpose built infant school separate to the junior school to the west of the original school...but back to the prefab block...
ReplyDeleteIt's purpose?...maybe to accomodate the extra influx of pupils when Kingston Park Estate was built where there was no school?...I dunno, but I do recall that ruffians and bounders from down the bottom used to shelter in the porch bit in the dark notchy of winter, bog knows why...(I vidddied them with mein telescope from the top of the plateau whist studying for mein cub scout astronomy badge...but I've already told you bout that...) explain all Mr Johnstone!
It faced EAST you dorf.
ReplyDeleteThe dentists van looked like a horse box.
ReplyDeletehear man yu little dafty El Patron...Menzy is reet...it faced sooth...tuwaads the plato man...
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