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I wonder if Miss Underwood was related to Donald Underwood who commented on a different photo of Scholes. I hope he sees this and can tell us if she is a relative.

I did ask him once Irene and he did say she may be a distant connection. She was a lovely teacher and so was Miss Holland. She lived at Boars Head. Miss U lived off Darlington St.

Looks like the same Miss Holland who was headmistress at St John Fisher girls school, I never knew that she taught at St, Pat's.

She must have gone up in the world Tuddy . She was an ordinary teacher at St Pat’s. I could never have imagined her in a mixed school.

The reason I say that Tuddy was because she was always trying to make us girls behave in a ‘ lady-like’ manner. She was forever tut- tutting. I don’t know what she would make of some of the girls today with the tattoos and trout pouts!

Hi Veronica, she was headmistress of the girls school when I was next door in the boys school, We went mixed for the last two years, but I don't remember her teaching us.

Happy new hats, ladies.

This must be when schools/ education became comprehensive then Tuddy?

miss underwood was a neighbour of mine she lived at no 2 harper st and we lived at no 11 harper st 40s/50s/60s

miss underwood could often be seen in bottling wood, collecting knitbone near yellow brook.

That's right Veronica, it would have been about 1972 when the two schools went mixed.

Avec Fer, yes, I remember Miss Underwood collecting knitbone. She used to call it nip-bone. How we laughed.
By the way, are you French?

Those teachers would have known the girl who was stabbed to death a few years ago by the retard in Leeds. We lived a few doors away from her family.
What teachers are faced with these days Tuddy is beyond understanding.