I visited our old home in Canada Drive recently. It had changed a lot: in fact it was unrecognisable. Strange to view that road now and remember my Dad walking up the road at the end of his working day. He used to carry our comics rolled up in his hand - for me, there was Bunty on Tuesdays and Judy on Thursdays.
I also visited my old school, Little London. I started my school life there but my memory of it is of a large austere building with huge classrooms. In reality, it was a beautiful Victorian building with turrets and quite compact in size. It is no longer a school but has recently been converted into luxury flats.
I didn't enjoy my early days in school there. I attended Little London from September 1954 until we moved to Kent in the spring of 1955. Learning the alphabet was of great importance when I first started school. We sat and looked at a large blackboard and a chart with pictures. The letter 'g' was depicted as a pair of glasses so there were two gs together to form the image. We learnt the alphabet by rote along with pictorial images to support this. The 'h' was a sideways view of a chair and the teacher would say 'h....', exhaling air and pretending to sit on a chair, as if tired and needing to rest.
Although Mum had a large family of siblings, I don't have any memories of visiting them, or of their visits to us, apart from that stay at Cora's when Michael was born. My clear memories came of my aunts, uncles and cousins after we moved to Kent and paid frequent visits back to Yorkshire.
I also visited my old school, Little London. I started my school life there but my memory of it is of a large austere building with huge classrooms. In reality, it was a beautiful Victorian building with turrets and quite compact in size. It is no longer a school but has recently been converted into luxury flats.
I didn't enjoy my early days in school there. I attended Little London from September 1954 until we moved to Kent in the spring of 1955. Learning the alphabet was of great importance when I first started school. We sat and looked at a large blackboard and a chart with pictures. The letter 'g' was depicted as a pair of glasses so there were two gs together to form the image. We learnt the alphabet by rote along with pictorial images to support this. The 'h' was a sideways view of a chair and the teacher would say 'h....', exhaling air and pretending to sit on a chair, as if tired and needing to rest.
Although Mum had a large family of siblings, I don't have any memories of visiting them, or of their visits to us, apart from that stay at Cora's when Michael was born. My clear memories came of my aunts, uncles and cousins after we moved to Kent and paid frequent visits back to Yorkshire.
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