Jump to content

LesJ

Members
  • Content Count

    9
  • Joined

  • Last visited

Community Reputation

10 Neutral

About LesJ

  • Rank
    Registered User
  • Birthday 24/10/1947

Personal Information

  • Location
    London
  • Interests
    Drawing, graphics, reading
  • Occupation
    Professor
  1. I lived at 138 Carbrook Street which was just past the weirs head as you walked down from the 'cliffe. 12 houses past Rothwell's papershop. Reading around a bit, I realise that of course there were a few Kemps and I might be mistaken about it being Ian Kemp, although I think it was. I think his street was a dead-end street off the 'cliffe that backed onto the rec' near the Carbrook Hall. Don't remember the name of the street. The boys of the family had light hair, perhaps blonde. I don't remember Ian physically too well, I'm sorry to say. His nick name was Kempy. Les
  2. My elder brother is Ray Johnson (I'm Les Johnson 3 years younger). One of his friends was Ian Kemp who I knew because they let me hang out with them from time to time in the school holidays. Ray lives in Cole Aston now. ---------- Post added 14-11-2013 at 07:19 ---------- Hi Fred, I think I remember you. Did you have sandy blond hair? Or, light brown? I'm not sure if we were friends, in the sense of going to each other's house, but for some reason I have this strong image of what I take to be you as a boy; were we in the same class? I was in a class with a Len Johnson, no relation to me, Les Johnson. I went to the infants school and junior school but left to go to Coleridge Road for senior school. But, I still lived in Carbrook Street for many years. I have seen a photo of one of our classes on Friends United. I think you're in it. There's quite a few faces I recognize. Look up the school name in FU and you should find the photo. Regards
  3. I was there 1959-62. My name is Les Johnson I lived on Carbrook Street and was up and down Broughton Lane every scool day as I went home for lunch. My first teacher there was Mr Knowles. I remember most of the teacher with warm regard: Wilde, Young, Naylor, and my favourite Mr Dixon. He was my favourite for no reason connected with him being "nice", just his presence and what he taught. One story I tell of Mr Stribley, the headmaster, was of a time when I was sent to him for a caning. I nervously waited outside his office. He kept me waiting. I nervously started to sing gently to myself. Self soothing I suppose. He came out of his office and said "is that you singing?" Gulp, "Yes, Sir". He gave me a penny and told me to sing in the next street! When I when back to class and was asked by the teacher what happened I merely told him - truthfully - that the headmaster had given me a penny. The look on his face ... We had "cross country" running o'r locks; swimming down at Attercliffe Baths, woodwork just off Attercliffe common (only half the class had woodwork lessons in the school premises), sports on the field next to the school. Out quite a bit! We played football in our first years near the girls netball pitch which was the boys side of the dividing wall between the boys and girls schools. Mr Stribley walked pass every lunch time to have his lunch with his wife who was head of the girls school. We had the Christmas concert in the girls school as it had a stage. I was in the choir and loved the event. I attended the youth club that was held in the annex within the grounds of the boys school. The youth club had access to the girls school for things like 5 a side football in the hall. We never used the boys school for the youth club, apart from that one prefab annex which had table tennis and snooker tables. Ou vaccine jabs were done in there but otherwise I didn't know of it being used by the school. Any one remember me or these events?
  4. Thanks for the update. Yes, it was Dennis Pike. I remember now. All the other names are familiar too. I think I was friends with Keith Socket at one time. Regards
  5. Thanks for letting me know. Give my regards to Lew when you next see him. I'd like to think he remembers me, but he may not. We were very young and I moved to another Coleridge Road School; I saw Lew in my teens at least once and we knew each other. You live near my brother Ray who lives in Aston. I visit him from time to time. Last I knew, Lew had gone to live somewhere on the Manor, but we all move around a bit. Apart from a few years in York, I've lived most of my adult life in and around London but in quite a few places. Did we know ueach other? I now think I remember your first name and family name but can't recollect anyone of that comdination of names in my classes. One way or another, we all knew each other to a degree degree of friendship. But, I'm not good at remembering names. I remember Lew because I like him a lot and Tony Barlow because our Parents used to know each other because they drank in the same pub occasionally. (I had a Step Dad and so my mother was known as Mrs Travis). There was a Fred Green that I was friendly with and someone called Pike who I remember because we bumped into each other when our families happened to have took a holiday at the same resort. It's been good trying to piece together memories and make a coherent pattern. I'm sad that the physical props of memory have long since been demolished although the roads are still there and the weir on the river Don looks much the same. Tell Lew I hope he and his are well and happy. The same goes for you.
  6. We moved to Blackstock Road for a couple of years and then returned. I lived at 138 until it was knocked down when they cleared the area. Just to add to my last post: One of the names I remember was Lewis Bower, his parents had the corner shop opposite the school entrance. I was friends with Lewis.
  7. Thanks: I remember so many of the names you mentioned that were in your classes at Carbrook CofE; my brothers name Ray Johnson was amongst them. Ray is 3 years older than me. My name is Les. We lived at 138 Carbrook Street in the next yard but one to Rotherwell's paper shop. There was another family called Johnson who lived further down the street and a son named Len was the same age as me. We were in the same call at one time and were sometimes confused in people's minds. Ray was in the school a lot longer than I and that's - I guess - is why I remember his class mates names more than mine. Apart from Len, I remember Tony Barlow (nicknamed Barr Lamb), Louis ?, Fred Green, ? Pike, Alice ?, John Bell. There's a class photo somewhere in Friends Reunited.
  8. Yes, I once go six of the best; three on each hand. This by a teacher from another class and so I was able to go to the toilets and put my hands under cold running water and cry my eyes out there. He has hit me so hard that my hands were severely bruised and very swollen. So bad, my mother when down to the school to tackle him about it in his class: that shows how bad it was because parents just didn't complain about you being caned. She dragged me in the class and showed him my hands in front of his class. All he could say was he (me) didn't cry as I caned him. My mother was furious saying well they don't do they is that what you wanted to do humiliate him too and hit harder? She said that he was never to touch me again in any circumstances or she would come down to the school and cane him. I never got the cane again by any teacher but she pulled me out of the school at the end of that year. From then on she was against corporal punishment. My hands were badly hurt for days. My worst childhood memory. Yet I don't remember why I was being punished.
  9. Hi I lived on Carbrook Street near the weir head, in the the same yard as Glennis Fothergill. Just a couple of yards down from Rothwell's the papershop. I went to Carbrook C of E but then went to Coleridge Road for my secondary school while continuing living on the street. My memory of things is a little loose and so I appreciate these posts as they bring back memories and fill out the picture of my life. Thanks. I remember the doc Ivy Nichols very well: her hair; her stockings; her cheerful manner; her bags and bustle. The headmaster "Cornflake" who was white haired, well groomed and wore gold rim glasses. I remember the teachers who were sisters Miss and Mrs Edginton; Miss being the elder and a dragon. The Jackson's chippy and the great fish n chips.
×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.