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[warringtonsaint]

Anyone any memories of Parish Church Junior School? I was a pupil there from 1965 to 1969.

I remember the head - Mickey Myers, who used to live at the top end of Oxford Street. Some of the teachers I recall are:

Miss Green, Mrs Ashley, Mr Sudworth, Miss Batten, Mr Millington, Miss Bradbury, and the fierce Miss Kendrick!

Great school though, I have many very fond memories of it.

[wanderer]

Yes I certainly remember Parish Church. It was a good school when I was there between 1956 and 1960. Mickey ruled with an iron rod and I wonder how he would manage now that corporal punishment has been banned. It never did me any harm however and I think it would have been impossible to keep control without real discipline - there were 46 pupils in my class.

The only teacher I remember other than the ones you mentioned is Mr Swift.

Did they still have school trips to Blackpool illuminations, the Pantomime in Liverpool, Chester and York when you were there? We used to have to walk to the Parish Church on Ascension Day and those going on the trip to York would get on the coach waiting outside after the service. - Happy Days!

Edited by wanderer, 17 April 2006 - 03:15 PM.

[warringtonsaint]

Yes, they still had the trips just as you remember! Mickey Myers leading a rendition of "They'll be coming round the mountain.........."

[TedN]

Going into Holy Cross for school dinners

[Mr.Yat]

warringtonsaint, on Apr 9 2006, 04:17 PM, said:

Anyone any memories of Parish Church Junior School? I was a pupil there from 1965 to 1969.

I remember the head - Mickey Myers, who used to live at the top end of Oxford Street. Some of the teachers I recall are:

Miss Green, Mrs Ashley, Mr Sudworth, Miss Batten, Mr Millington, Miss Bradbury, and the fierce Miss Kendrick!

Great school though, I have many very fond memories of it.

Aye good memories (left in 1962/3) and still have a lump on the back of my head off the wall from being the last in "Long Tailed Fish".

Don't beleive Micky would get away with the corporal punishment aspect nor the habit of stroking our legs - thank God shorts weren't that short in those days!

My mates from those school days? Keith Parr (deceased), Brian Johnson, Leslie Winstanley, Neil Shankly, Raymond Bradbury, Frankie Preston and had a crush on Lorraine Brown and Brenda Lawrenson ... all of them kids from in or around Roland Ave, Litherland Crescent or Chadwick Road.

Edited by Mr.Yat, 27 June 2006 - 12:31 PM.

[norman]

i remember parish church school was there till 1971 then went to cenny mod till 1978 any old pupils remember me

[Olliebeak]

Just a thought ........................ Have you checked on Friends Reunited to see if it's listed on there. You may find other people from when you went to it.



I got a copy of an old school photo from my Friends Reunited site.

[Connyected]

Memories of Parish Church in the '50's and 60's.......Miss Bradbury making you stand on a chair to rattle your legs with a ruler ( she couldn't bend down )

The tin bath being dragged out on Wednesday afternoons to soak the willow for making baskets.

The threat of being made to draw a line without a ruler when you went into Miss Kendick's class.

and best of all ...the little emblems we woudl have in nursery to denote our belongings....a little buch of flowers or a clown on your peg, comb and PE bag.

There was a girl in my class who, when she woke up after the afternoon nap that we had to have in nursery saw the basket of flowers on her bed cover and said 'by showers '
This title became her name...'by showers' and we called her this all the time.

I can remember feeling really miffed when we were told years later that we were not to call her by this name any longer and that we were to call her Pat.

Why ? we all thought.

[Graham]

I was at Parish Chuech 1961-65 and still have my "Leaving Certificate " signed by all the staff

Edited by Graham, 04 December 2006 - 11:41 PM.

[burrowz]

Yes Mickey Myers!! Used to check if you had underpants on as part of a school uniform check!!

I was ther until 1959. Mickey Myers took us to Morecambe on a school camp on several occasions. Also to Aberdeen and my first flight -the Isle of Man. He was a strange old geezer but my dad was dying and he took me for nothing!! Kindness itself.

[Graham]

burrowz, on Dec 11 2006, 08:03 PM, said:

Yes Mickey Myers!! Used to check if you had underpants on as part of a school uniform check!!

He wouldn't get away with that Today!

[warringtonsaint]

I remember going on the Morecambe trip............in a sleeping bag in some draughty church hall, jam butties and hot chocolate before "lights out"........those where the days!

[gashton]

I started there in 67 and left in 73...used to walk there every day as I Lived on the same street

[kaz]

warringtonsaint, on 09 April 2006 - 03:17 PM, said:

Anyone any memories of Parish Church Junior School? I was a pupil there from 1965 to 1969.

I remember the head - Mickey Myers, who used to live at the top end of Oxford Street. Some of the teachers I recall are:

Miss Green, Mrs Ashley, Mr Sudworth, Miss Batten, Mr Millington, Miss Bradbury, and the fierce Miss Kendrick!

Great school though, I have many very fond memories of it.

I was at Parish Church Juniors from 1965 to 1969 and remember those teachers too. Miss Bradbury was so shaky - she could never properly hit the target when trying to smack someone's leg! Mrs Ashley's daughter Janet was in my class. Some of the others I can recall were Shelagh Cresswell (my best friend from Chapel Street), Susan Leyland, Susan Mills, Caroline Thorpe, David Cheetham, Alan Yates, Pauline Dawson, David Prescot, John Galvin, David Mitchell, Ian Bradbury - I remember being paired up with Ian to dance round the maypole - he was the tallest in the class and I was the smallest! I remember the outside toilets, queuing up to buy Rich Tea biscuits from the tuck shop on the stage at playtime and Mickey Myers showing old black and white Laurel and Hardy movies as a christmas 'treat'. What was that poem he used to recite that everyone loved because he did it in a broad Lancashire accent - something about a trip to Blackpool zoo?

[gilly]

I went to holy cross 65/69 but knew a few of those you mentioned,i remember micky myers as well ,he used to send us packing if we were caught in parish church playground