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by Jackdaw
15 Nov 2016 20:07
Forum: Town Cafe
Topic: Any ex pupils of St Bartholomew's Primary School?
Replies: 4
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Re: Any ex pupils of St Bartholomew's Primary School?

Sorry to have missed the St Bart's Big Birthday Summer Fair but I now live near Inveraray in Argyll and it would have been a long journey! I attended St Bart's 1946-1952 and well remember the tarmac playground and the outside toilets - especially in winter... The teachers I most recall were 1) Miss ...
by Jackdaw
27 Jul 2015 15:05
Forum: Town Museum & Gallery
Topic: Earlsthorpe Road WWII bomb 1943
Replies: 8
Views: 18447

Re: Earlsthorpe Road WWII bomb 1943

I was living (age 2!) with my mother just across and further up the road when the bomb fell. My mother told me my head was cut by broken glass from the blast. We evacuated temporarily but returned there in late 1945. I remember the bomb site well and it did indeed stretch from Earlsthorpe Road to ...