Walking to school in the 60s and 70s

homesickblues said:
I also remember this, must have been late 60's early 70's when it was still dark as we walked to school, we got loads of orange sashes and armbands and we wore them as we walked in the dark. I think it was some kind of experiment to see if the country could remain on GMT all year.
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Fun? fact number 1 about Spain - by geography we should in the same time zone as Portugal and the UK. We moved to match German time as Franco wanted to suck up to Hitler.

Number 2 - the Spanish government is considering not changing the time each spring and autumn. Like what I think happened in the UK.
 
I always walked up Redcar Lane to Zetland school, about 15 minutes but you had to negotiate the railway crossing and as soon as the lights started everyone would sprint to get past before they closed fully.
As long as you were past the Ings Road Junction you could make it.
They had 4 gates and they would close 2 at a time so you could cut across if it got close.I remember one time "Puddy" got his Parker hood caught on the gates and it started to lift him up as it opened.Very Funny.
Also I wasn't allowed to wear long trousers until I went to senior school so from 4 years old to 11 it was shorts no matter the weather.
 
Half an hour each way for me on my own. Did the same sort of distance with the kids but I wouldn't let them do it on their own due to the amount/speed of traffic on the roads they had to cross.
 
Just Google Mapped mine. From the age of around 7 I walked 1 mile to school. Was quite the norm. Don't see many 7 year olds doing that these days I imagine, and this was only in the 90s
 
BobUpnDown said:
I don't recall many getting 'lifts' to school - busses lots of them but many walked from Linthorpe to Acklam: Hustler, Boynton, Kings Manor & St Georges, I know I did - first year at Hustler was Linthorpe to Acklam, google maps makes it about 1.5 miles & 30 mins ( though not allowing me to take any short cuts)

Just expected back then.
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This was my daily walk too but did take the short cut that ran down the side of Mill Hill playing fields so probably about a mile or so
 
Liamo said:
For the most part, I would say the same thing. I remember that one particular day precisely because it was so cold and the wind/sleet/rain so extreme, that it stands out in the memory - while simply rainy days (of which there must have been hundreds) do not.
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I remember waking through snow on bitterly cold days. Passing the occasional body of first or second years who couldn't make it but knowing that meant there would be milk bottles going spare later on so be nice to the milk monitor and you would be in clover :)
 
Primary School was 1/2 mile, 10-12 minutes I guess.

Secondary school was 1.5 miles, took 30 minutes. Tended to walk down each morning, but got the bus home half the time.
 
Millbrook said:
Used to walk down Hall Drive to get to Acklam Hall. We had to touch our caps if a teacher drove past - can't remember if that was first year only.
Was Tom Bull the gym teacher when you were there?
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I can’t remember who was gym teacher, but Tom Wise was Maths, GOF was memorable at French and I think Chadwick was English.
 
I lived in Thorntree and went to Lanbaurgh. I used to run to school and try and beat my brother there and back home again.
It kept me fit though. I used to love running back then and ended up in the Army!!
 
Me and a mate revisited our Boro addresses from the 60s and 70s the other week. Everywhere just seemed tiny. Especially those roads around "The Lakes" ... Stanhope Grove etc. Roman Road, Orchard Rd, The Avenue and Linthorpe village all seem to have shrunk. We drove up Appleton Rd and I couldn't believe how small it felt ... and really quiet. When I was a kid, all the streets around there, Abbotsford Rd, Braemar Rd etc would be alive with kids playing out in the street.
 
borolad259 said:
Me and a mate revisited our Boro addresses from the 60s and 70s the other week. Everywhere just seemed tiny. Especially those roads around "The Lakes" ... Stanhope Grove etc. Roman Road, Orchard Rd, The Avenue and Linthorpe village all seem to have shrunk. We drove up Appleton Rd and I couldn't believe how small it felt ... and really quiet. When I was a kid, all the streets around there, Abbotsford Rd, Braemar Rd etc would be alive with kids playing out in the street.
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The only one of those that I used a lot is The Avenue. It used to feel like a long walk down to the church on the right. Then round the corner to St. Edward's.
 
spanishman said:
My final school in the Boro was St. Mary's College. From 1973 to 1977. The shortest school walk of the lot for me.
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If you played footy for them in 76/77 we played against each other a couple of times and you were on the winning side (Yarm Grammar School)


On the Proddy/Catholic front - in the mid 60's I lived half way, on the main road, between St Anthony's and Langbaurgh.
At the end of the final term it was like the wild west in my street. Absolute madness.
 
Millbrook said:
Just remembered that it was Tom Forrest who taught gym - we called him Tom Bull. Was our form master and taught maths as well.

Pickersgill didn't teach gym but took rugby sometimes and played in the matches. Liked tackling the boys. Taught woodwork.

Then I found this;
www.jalodrome.co.uk

Acklam Hall Grammar School Teachers

Acklam Hall Grammar School Teachers
www.jalodrome.co.uk www.jalodrome.co.uk
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My old man is on there. The writer is surprisingly nice about him.
 
1finny said:
If you played footy for them in 76/77 we played against each other a couple of times and you were on the winning side (Yarm Grammar School)


On the Proddy/Catholic front - in the mid 60's I lived half way, on the main road, between St Anthony's and Langbaurgh.
At the end of the final term it was like the wild west in my street. Absolute madness.
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I was in sixth form by then. Not sure but I seem to remember I was playing more rugby than football by then.

Also, we only had the Catholic girls school next door to us at St Mary's College.

The proddy dog line was more associated with my time at St George's. With Hustler and Boynton next door.
 
spanishman said:
I was in sixth form by then. Not sure but I seem to remember I was playing more rugby than football by then.

Also, we only had the Catholic girls school next door to us at St Mary's College.

The proddy dog line was more associated with my time at St George's. With Hustler and Boynton next door.
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You'd have had Frank O'Connor as head? Remember the colossal snowball fights between the three schools?
 
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