After the National School was demolished, a one-room temporary (?) school building was put up to house two classes of probably 30 pupils each side, facing each other, with the teachers in the middle back to back.
The alleyway at the right was always known as Blue Ball Lane and towards the bottom of the lane, before you got to the arched wooden gate into the Blue Ball yard, was a flour hoist where cockroaches fell through the wooden floor into the lane.
I attended that one-room school in 1935/36 until we moved to Wisewood and I went to Wisewood school and then Marlcliffe.
