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Fred
How on earth did you manage to keep these all these years!!!
Can't be as careless as they say ! lol.

Brilliant report - so sad such things were produced with such judgemental comments for kids at that age. I don't remember school reports being issued until we were in secondary school in Liverpool.

Thank you Trish. Quite illuminating, isn't it.
Rev Long, also thanks. My mother was Hilda Long from Worsley Hall. Any relation to the Longs from Briar Road, WH?

Just look at the class sizes though. Right after the war. Baby boomers...Yes, that's us.....

With 47 in a class we still learnt something & we also learnt how to sit still for 5 mins....something children these days seem incapable of. Oh ignore me, I'm just a Grumpy Old Woman this morning !!

Well done Fred, what a great report. The teachers earned their money then with 47 children to teach.

St John's, in those days, had one of the highest success rates when it came to 11 plus passes.

Fred, I wonder if Miss Anderton is the same one who was one of my teachers in the 70's at Mere Oaks. Her brother was James Anderton who was Chief Constable of Greater Manchester.

Im afraid i did not pass on that one Trisia. Nora Anderson was an only child, and lived in Lock street, before moving to Orrell road.

Join the rest of us, Helen. We all feel grumpy sometimes. I'll tell you what, now that I'm an 'owd mon' I see kids in a different light and now know what our parents and grandparents must have thought of us. Ha!!!

Are you in the class photo, Helen?

The nicest thing about this posting is the fact that I have the signatures of Nora Anderton, John Willy Starkey and my father, Walter Mason, R.I.P.