Mrs Blinston...

Happy days at Robert Lewis and Mrs Blinston...The greatest teacher I ever had. What a wonderful caring and kind teacher she was.
Never was a woman more dedicated. I blossomed in her class and English was her forte.
She worked so hard during the day that when it came to Storytime at 3 o'clock, she would nod off reading us a story...but somehow managed to keep reading it...with her eyes shut...
What a total professional...
That wouldn't happen today.
The kids would report her for being asleep on the job...

I went to robert lewis mid fiftys.that name rings a bell......

didn't mrs blinston teach at pem primary as well?? i remember her and i didn't go to robert lewis

Jarvo,
Any more information on your favourite teacher....I could be related to her !

Aspuller: she had two children, a boy and a girl. The boy was Gilbert, but I can't remember the girl's name. She used to come to school in a black Morris Minor...
If you go on Album, you will see her on a class photo at Poolstock in the mid fifties.

Judyteen: Yes, I think when we all moved to Pem Primary, she taught Junior 2.

Jarvo,thanks for that.She became my aunt by a later marriage, having married my Dads brother and had two other children,James and Beatrice. Small world innit ?

Aspuller...small world indeed.

thats a blast from the past, i knew from pem primary

She once bought all the class a bottle of orange juice each, on a scorching summer day.

if they did that now the pupils would report it

She'd be in prison...

true that, they would think she was up to something instead of realising she was just being helpful and caring

Best teacher I ever had...

trying to think of some others, i remember Mr Brown he used to hit you with a table tennis bat......i think thats why my backside is flat

Mr Martin was a true gent and Mrs Saunders was a character.

Swifty: I was at Pem Primary after RL closed: 1963-1965. Do you remember Mr Causey the caretaker?

i did, was his wife caretaker of the one on seven drive

Yip....Mrs Causey with the "red" hair...

thats the one, used to ball and shout at you and chase you when you was playing on the field

When did you leave, Swifty?

left pem primary about 1973, then went on to pem middle

I see...I was at the Valve by then...

in 73?

Yip...1969-1981...Home from home.

used to remember seeing the train when we was on our way to the brook and then onto long wall, not a care in the world..........oh happy days,

Last steam train through Pemberton: 23rd June 1968...

no meant the little train at triangle valves then on our way back look at the big stuffed fish on the wall in a building, it was part of Northern Counties, in kilshaw street

Oh, those. Yes, they ran from Main Works to East Works.