I started at St Bart’s in 1969 and it was already located at Peak Hill. The single storey building next to the top playground wasn’t yet built/finished. And the turf alongside the lower playground hadn’t been laid.
What was great when I started was that everything was or seemed to be new. The ...
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- 8 Apr 2013 04:47
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: old St.Bart's primary school
- Replies: 27
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- 12 Mar 2013 21:59
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: St Phillip's Infant School and St Barts junior school
- Replies: 73
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Re: St Phillip's Infant School and St Barts junior school
Miss Redmain, was my first teacher at St Barts, and remember her as being very friendly. One thing I can recall about her was keeping the class up to date with the Fischer v Spassky chess match which was going on at the time. It seemed everyone caught the chess bug, this lead to a chess competition ...
- 27 Feb 2013 00:24
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: anyone remember this at Cobbs Corner?
- Replies: 1
- Views: 3290
Re: anyone remember this at Cobbs Corner?
I do! I think it was outside the electricity showroom.
- 26 Feb 2013 21:23
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Taylors Lane / Rowland Grove
- Replies: 12
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Re: Taylors Lane / Rowland Grove
What a remarkable picture. Mr Scrobie looks just as I remember him and if I think of Mrs Scrobie, it's standing behind the meat slicer at the end of the shop.
Did they have a daughter? She might have lived near the corner of Taylors Lane and Longton Grove.
Sometimes you'd walk past the yard at the ...
Did they have a daughter? She might have lived near the corner of Taylors Lane and Longton Grove.
Sometimes you'd walk past the yard at the ...
- 19 Sep 2012 03:16
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Taylors Lane / Rowland Grove
- Replies: 12
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Re: Taylors Lane / Rowland Grove
This is a great picture.
I don’t know how many times I was sent to Scrobie’s by my mum for bread (stacked on the shelf on the left hand side as you went in, ‘Mother’s Pride’ and unwrapped / unsliced ‘Hovis’ loaves) or for cigarettes (“Ask Mr Scrobie for two tens of Gold Leaf”).
In the summertime ...
I don’t know how many times I was sent to Scrobie’s by my mum for bread (stacked on the shelf on the left hand side as you went in, ‘Mother’s Pride’ and unwrapped / unsliced ‘Hovis’ loaves) or for cigarettes (“Ask Mr Scrobie for two tens of Gold Leaf”).
In the summertime ...
- 24 Nov 2009 02:13
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: St Phillip's Infant School and St Barts junior school
- Replies: 73
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I don't remember a country dance called 'Brighton Camp' but distinctly remember one called 'Black Nag'.
On the subject of music, the first movements of Beethoven’s 5th symphony and the Moonlight Sonata and Mozart’s 40th symphony are very much tied in with my memories of St Barts (1969/73) as they ...
On the subject of music, the first movements of Beethoven’s 5th symphony and the Moonlight Sonata and Mozart’s 40th symphony are very much tied in with my memories of St Barts (1969/73) as they ...
- 26 Jun 2009 04:22
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: St Phillip's Infant School and St Barts junior school
- Replies: 73
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- 26 Jun 2009 03:50
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Milk Machines
- Replies: 23
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I’ve recently seen the movie, ‘Sparrow’s Can’t Sing’ at the Sydney Film Festival as part of a retrospective of women film makers. It was made in the East End, around Stepney (sorry, not Sydenham) and though not a great film it does include some great shots of the old terraced houses being knocked ...
- 26 Jun 2009 03:29
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: SAINSBURY'S IN SYDENHAM ROAD?
- Replies: 19
- Views: 27531
I used to go shopping at Sydenham Sainsbury’s with my Nan. I seem to remember the queue moving up one side of the shop and down the other.
Two things stand out in my mind. Watching the cheese being cut with a wire and wrapped in white paper. Also the delicious square-shaped fruit pies they used to ...
Two things stand out in my mind. Watching the cheese being cut with a wire and wrapped in white paper. Also the delicious square-shaped fruit pies they used to ...
- 13 May 2009 03:49
- Forum: Town Cafe
- Topic: St Phillip's Infant School and St Barts junior school
- Replies: 73
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I think Mrs Cheetah was headmistress at St Philips when I was there. She also ran a after school drama group there in the evenings in the early 70’s with a few ex-pupils involved. We put on a play and only two people turned up one of them was my mother! Some of the pupils I can remember are Paul ...
- 20 Apr 2009 03:46
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: 2 Church Halls previously at the top of Taylor's Lane?
- Replies: 21
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- 28 Nov 2008 03:29
- Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
- Topic: Danger in the grove!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 7521