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Yes, I remember Whitsun very well. It was one of the major days in the calendar along with Christmas, birthday and bonfire night. On the Sunday we had new clothes and went around the neighbours showing them off and they would give us money. On the Monday it was the Whit Walk. We went to Western Park. I absolutely loved it, marching behind the Sunday School banner and the Scout band. All the children who were in the Children's Hospital were at the windows to watch and we all waved madly at them. In the afternoon we went on the Sunday School picnic - I don't remember it ever raining but it must have done some years and then in the evening there was a Social when all the parents got dressed up and we got to stay up really late. All in all it was a great day - what a shame it has gone. (As you can probably guess, I am very old!!!)

Thank you so much for your input. I will certainly do something with it - the point about copyright is taken. My next task is to read her diaries - kept from the 1930s up to when she began to suffer from dementia in the late 90s. Should be fascinating. She taught at Duchess Road school for her entire working life so there may be people out there who remember Miss Furness - she certainly remembered them.

I was in 1x and 2x (they had to put in an extra form for our year because, being the biggest baby boom year (1949) there were more of us). I think I was then in 3H and 4H but I would need to dig out my old reports to check - it's all gone a bit hazy! Miss Griffiths was my form teacher in year 1 and I've just remembered Miss Littlewood who taught "housecraft" was my form teacher one year - she turned out to have been at school with my mother!! They spent parents' evening huddled in a corner giggling!!

I have been sorting through the papers of my aunt who died earlier this year. She was a meticulous record keeper and I have found a notebook containing a record of everything she bought from 1943 to 1971. It lists the items, where bought and price paid; for instance a corset could be bought from Sheffield & Ecclesall Co-op for 19s 3d. It occurs to me that this is a wonderful record of a time gone by and might possibly be of interest to historians, local or otherwise. Does anyone have any thoughts?

I was at King Ecgberts from 1960 - 1966. Yes, Mr Salway was Chemistry, Fred Shaw taught me in the secretarial sixth, along with Mr Harrison. There was a Miss Cole who taught Geography and I remember Miss Griffiths who taught Maths and definitely couldn't control a class. There was a male teacher who was famous for throwing the blackboard rubber at pupils who weren't paying attention - can't remember his name might have been Chambers. My favourite teacher was Mrs Hunt who taught English. She was a wonderful teacher who allowed us to read books which Miss Coates (Kitty) probably wouldn't have approved of. There was a French teacher called Mr Jones, who I saw a couple of years ago in the Noahs Ark at Crookes.