If You Could Change Something From Your Past

[PRESLEY]

Not being nicer to Padders and Flapper.  Retract that statement!  the pair of Hooligans.  

[echo beach]

2 hours ago, pattricia said:

Not going to university. I was so unhappy in The Convent High School For Girls that I left early. If my parents had left me in Shirecliffe school I would have gone.

I, like you pattricia never got chance to go to university when I was 18. 
Did get accepted later in life however when I was married with two children.

It was hard financially but we’ll worth it.

Never forget the expressions on the faces of the youngsters in my group when this ‘old bloke’ got the best marks in our first written assignment. Perhaps they learned a lesson then that experience counts for a lot in life and you’re never to old to learn!😀

 

echo.

 

Edited January 25, 2024 by echo beach

[Draggletail]

Great thread...

 

If I could change something from my past, I would not have left Sheffield for warmer climes.

[pattricia]

1 hour ago, echo beach said:

I, like you pattricia never got chance to go to university when I was 18. 
Did get accepted later in life however when I was married with two children.

It was hard financially but we’ll worth it.

Never forget the expressions on the faces of the youngsters in my group when this ‘old bloke’ got the best marks in our first written assignment. Perhaps they learned a lesson then that experience counts for a lot in life and you’re never to old to learn!😀

 

echo.

 

What kind of degree did you take ? I was top in English in school so would have taken an English Literature degree I think. My parents were working class and didn’t know anything about how to apply to University.

[pattricia]

Another thing I regret from my past was turning a footballer down. I was at The Locarno dancehall one Friday night. This man came up to me and said he couldn’t dance but would I mind sitting down with him on the seats surrounding the dance floor. I thought it was strange that all these men were coming up to him asking for his autograph. He said he couldn’t take me for a drink as he was playing football the next day. I said “ Oh, do you play in Longley Park “ He said “ No I play for Sheffield Wednesday.” He said you can come tomorrow and get in free”  I said “ No thanks, I don’t like football “ !       Big regret on my part !

[Al Bundy]

20 minutes ago, pattricia said:

Another thing I regret from my past was turning a footballer down. I was at The Locarno dancehall one Friday night. This man came up to me and said he couldn’t dance but would I mind sitting down with him on the seats surrounding the dance floor. I thought it was strange that all these men were coming up to him asking for his autograph. He said he couldn’t take me for a drink as he was playing football the next day. I said “ Oh, do you play in Longley Park “ He said “ No I play for Sheffield Wednesday.” He said you can come tomorrow and get in free”  I said “ No thanks, I don’t like football “ !       Big regret on my part !

I doubt it, they probably lost 5-0!!

Edited January 25, 2024 by Al Bundy

[Guest]

I would have liked to have been able to talk to my grandparents about growing up in Sheffield during the interwar years, their experiences of WWII, and of Sheffield in the 50s and 60s.  We were never a family to do much in the way of talking to each other; I wish someone had done something about that, too. 

[echo beach]

3 hours ago, pattricia said:

What kind of degree did you take ? I was top in English in school so would have taken an English Literature degree I think. My parents were working class and didn’t know anything about how to apply to University.

A BEd at Leeds and then a career in teaching.

My parents also were working class and I’m sure didn’t know a great deal about education.

I do know that a few of my peers, the ones I have contact with, have done very well for themselves since leaving secondary school. One is a pilot and another a director of a dozen companies.

 

echo.

3 hours ago, pattricia said:

Another thing I regret from my past was turning a footballer down. I was at The Locarno dancehall one Friday night. This man came up to me and said he couldn’t dance but would I mind sitting down with him on the seats surrounding the dance floor. I thought it was strange that all these men were coming up to him asking for his autograph. He said he couldn’t take me for a drink as he was playing football the next day. I said “ Oh, do you play in Longley Park “ He said “ No I play for Sheffield Wednesday.” He said you can come tomorrow and get in free”  I said “ No thanks, I don’t like football “ !       Big regret on my part !

You might have missed a bullet there pattricia.

It might have been one of the infamous three!😀

 

echo.

[pattricia]

3 minutes ago, echo beach said:

A BEd at Leeds and then a career in teaching.

My parents also were working class and I’m sure didn’t know a great deal about education.

I do know that a few of my peers, the ones I have contact with, have done very well for themselves since leaving secondary school. One is a pilot and another a director of a dozen companies.

 

echo.

You have done very well. What does BEd mean ?  What subject did you teach ?

[francypants]

13 minutes ago, pattricia said:

You have done very well. What does BEd mean ?  What subject did you teach ?

BEd means Bachelor of Education.