Cousin Kay

Hello Joan, Will do. K

Yes, that's why I couldn't send a private reply - not enough posts. I must up my game! Btw soft ayperth there is a thread on Friends Reunited about Abbeydale Girls' School. Maybe someone there can help you.

Good to hear from someone in my class, Sydney Girl, but don't know your proper name. I don't remember Vicky but do remember Veronica who had long fair plaits and was a lovely girl. I also recall Pauline Roebuck who had a good singing voice. I wonder if she made it her career? My best friend was Linda Jackson who joined us in the second year. She had thought I was the most popular girl in school because on the first day of term everyone crowded round me as I had been in Lodge Moor Hospital ill with polio throughout the summer holidays! By chance I worked with Linda's dad when I was doing some temping at Firth-Vickers. After doing various secretarial jobs I became Production Assistant at the Crucible Theatre then moved to Coventry to the Belgrade Theatre and eventually ran my own theatrical agency. Moved around a lot including Gozo and finally ended up here in rural France. ---------- Post added 24-03-2015 at 07:03 ---------- Sydny Girl, I've just seen your earlier post - Hi, Joan!

Hello soft ayperth, Apparently I am not allowed to send you a private reply to your message about Abbeydale School for Girls which is why I am writing on this thread. I certainly remember the name S.H. but I'm afraid I have no further information for you. I do hope you find her. If she has married you could try finding her married name on Free BMD. Good luck, K

Hello again, Pudfred. I'm Kay Willgoose. Were you in the same year as I? Btw I made a slight typo - it was Miss Bone who went to Devon, not Miss Bunch. I still have a photograph of the entire school, pupils and staff, with Dr. Green sitting in the middle, actually smiling. I think we were a very lucky generation to receive the education that we did.

How lovely to find this thread! Pudfred, I remember all those teachers. I was there from 1954 in Cavell House (following my big sister who had left by then). Our first form mistress was Miss Williams who also taught music along with Miss Childs. Both of them had crushes on my dad who had the music shop in Sheffield. Miss Woodland was an inspirational teacher of Maths and she also supervised the gardening group. Miss Hancock was our first French teacher but then we had the marvellous Miss Varah, a tiny lady with a wonderfully husky voice due, no doubt, to smoking! I now live in France and think of Miss Varah often as it was she who gave me my love of the language. I too recall Miss Fairey as being very elegant and then there was Miss Bradshaw who taught Art - she left to get married and moved to Rutlandshire. Miss Bunch was sweet and left to move to Devon to live with her sister. Miss Long with the red hair taught history and was in love with the then Shah of Persia. Like most of the girls, I was in awe of Doctor Florence Mary Green who wore a mannish tweed suit in winter and a print frock in summer. At one time I worked at the Crucible Theatre; the theatre archivist was a friend of Dr. Green and she arranged for us to meet. She had hardly changed (I think she was still wearing the same suit!) and was utterly charming, remembering both my sister and my father. When he died she sent me a very kind letter. They don't make 'em like that any more!

Hello Ian, I'm afraid I don't know Byron but if you find him please point him in the direction of my family history website, A Gaggle of Geese. Many thanks. Cousin Kay