Walking to school in the 60s and 70s

borolad259 said:
You'd have had Frank O'Connor as head? Remember the colossal snowball fights between the three schools?
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I was there in 71 to 73. Cannot remember much about the teachers or the headmaster.

Played some footy there. I have a photo somewhere of one of the teams from around then. It used to be on Friends Reunited with a list of the players. If I remember rightly.

Tried to not get involved too much in any agro. So would not have taken part in the snowball fights.
 
Liamo said:
Used to walk to St Mary's College in the late 60’s and early 70’s. I never timed it but according to Google it's a 35 minute walk which sounds about right. I sometimes caught the bus but not always.

The other thing I remember about it is that we never used to wear any weatherproof or waterproof clothing. I distinctly remember one winter's day, walking into the teeth of a howling gale with sleet and rain driving into my face with only my school uniform and a 6th form scarf wrapped around my face to protect me from the weather.

I must have arrived at school drenched to the skin and freezing cold but just went straight to class and continued on with my day as normal. Couldn't imagine doing that nowadays.
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I was there 64-71. Came on the bus from Redcar. I have absolutely no recollection of owning anything waterproof or warm.
 
oops seemed to have screwed that one up !! My first school was only half a dozen doors away from Coatham Road to the Back Street behind Church Street.

Then I had to walk maybe half a mile to the start of Coatham Road adjacent to the Town Centre, 'til we moved to Corporation Road when it was newly built. It was not a great deal further

Short trousers until part way through the 2nd school year when I got a pair of my granfathers trousers that had been altered to fit me. My dad had died so there was little money around and no food banks. My mother's widows pension was ten bob a week 50p in new money
 
Sorry I started junior school in 1949 and secondary school in 1956 to 1963 I played my final game for the 1st. XV as captain and still have the High Pavement G.S. pennant on my wall framed. I've never lived permanently in Teesside proper since although I did have 12 months in Hurworth in 70/71
 
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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Good photo that. Surprised to see Joe Hurst (no 28) in there, because as head he was looking out his window in most other photos.
 
Rishworthian said:
Sorry I started junior school in 1949 and secondary school in 1956 to 1963 I played my final game for the 1st. XV as captain and still have the High Pavement G.S. pennant on my wall framed. I've never lived permanently in Teesside proper since although I did have 12 months in Hurworth in 70/71
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I say, you must be a jolly old chap.
 
JackG said:
I was there 64-71. Came on the bus from Redcar. I have absolutely no recollection of owning anything waterproof or warm.
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I was there 64-69,Ma Baker was my 1st year form tutor.Walked from top of Berwick Hills to Saltersgill every day,long way,and if you timed it wrong had to run the gauntlet of St.Thomas lads on that infamous white bridge.
 
Rishworthian said:
Nah miserable old b***r really. I'd love to get there at least once this season and I'd have been attending matches for 70 years. I've only missed attending at least one game each season and that was the covid season

Enough to make anyone miserable really
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You have really dry sense of humour Rishworthian. I love it
 
Rishworthian said:
Nah miserable old b***r really. I'd love to get there at least once this season and I'd have been attending matches for 70 years. I've only missed attending at least one game each season and that was the covid season

Enough to make anyone miserable really
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Message me, and I might be able to sort that.
 
spanishman said:
Barefoot, you had it easy. It was just socks for me. My mum used to darn them and leave the needles in to toughen me up.
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Luxury.

We had to crawl on our bellies like army commandos (to prepare us in case the Cold War actually kicked off my Dad said) to school, a journey that took us through a huge glass recycling yard.
Oh, and because we were pi$s poor, all our trousers were 5th hand and as would be expected the flies on every single pair of them were all fooked and gaping open.

Socks ha! We used to dream of walking to school with socks with needles in them.
 
Ipad1977 said:
Luxury.

We had to crawl on our bellies like army commandos (to prepare us in case the Cold War actually kicked off my Dad said) to school, a journey that took us through a huge glass recycling yard.
Oh, and because we were pi$s poor, all our trousers were 5th hand and as would be expected the flies on every single pair of them were all fooked and gaping open.

Socks ha! We used to dream of walking to school with socks with needles in them.
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I wondered how long it would take.
 
Blf said:
Borolad Can you remember the name of the shop on Tollesby Rd( the one on its own not the ones next to the Dev.). Drove past it the other day and said to my Mrs that the house on the corner at Lunedale Rd used to be a shop I went into on the way to school but couldn't remember it's name .
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Was it Open All Hours? Think it was shut when I saw it mind.
 
Nearly every primary school has around 50 cars outside and around it nowadays @ 3pm - there seems to be as many kids picked up in vehicles as ones that walk. I can understand parents feeling concerned as the media and certain other groups love to portray paedophiles hanging about school gates with bags of sweets and toys. However a high concentration of vehicles can often pose a greater safety problem for the children and lack of exercise/obesity. I can understand parents who live say 2 miles away bringing a car, but many live within 30 minutes walking distance.
 
Redwurzel said:
Nearly every primary school has around 50 cars outside and around it nowadays @ 3pm - there seems to be as many kids picked up in vehicles as ones that walk. I can understand parents feeling concerned as the media and certain other groups love to portray paedophiles hanging about school gates with bags of sweets and toys. However a high concentration of vehicles can often pose a greater safety problem for the children and lack of exercise/obesity. I can understand parents who live say 2 miles away bringing a car, but many live within 30 minutes walking distance.
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We all walked to our local primary school because they were on or around the estate where you lived, with the exception of the religious schools. Also, most families didn't have cars, certainly not where I lived in Low Grange.

Now estates are built without schools or any other facilities because the authorities know that the majority have access to cars.

We have also had choice introduced. It's not necessary for kids to go to the local school, they can go to schools well away from where they live so long as there's space for them.
 
I've just stumbled on this thread. I used to walk 30 minutes at 10/11 years old in Ferryhill up the bank to "seniors" and before that along the road to "juniors". Then in Boro, from Linthrorpe to Boynton via the artie? the tree lined path. That shop in Tollesby use to sell cigarettes to kids, you could get 1 for, I think 20p

I was never dropped off once or picked up once. Rain, snow, whatever, you just cracked on with it.
 
sadgit said:
I've just stumbled on this thread. I used to walk 30 minutes at 10/11 years old in Ferryhill up the bank to "seniors" and before that along the road to "juniors". Then in Boro, from Linthrorpe to Boynton via the artie? the tree lined path. That shop in Tollesby use to sell cigarettes to kids, you could get 1 for, I think 20p

I was never dropped off once or picked up once. Rain, snow, whatever, you just cracked on with it.
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If you were at Boynton in the early 70s I was next door, at St Georges.
 
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