Wigan Album

Miss Haydon back row third from right. Lovely teacher.
Miss Howard front row third from right. A right old tartar.

Been caned by Joe McArdle and by Rosie Howard. lol.

Back row far right. Is that Mrs Doherty(Spelling?)

You are right Kieth it is. She never caned me. lol

mr murphy caned me many times, i must of been a bad lad cos he was a true gent

mrs darwin back row 3rd left had red hair with a temper to match lol

back row 2nd from left Miss McFarlane ?

other fellow on fromt row Peter Christopher, Miss Fleetwood 3rd from end back right, had the cane from Joe Mc, Mr Murphy and Mr Christopher. Mr Christopher went to St Peters Orrell later.

Back row left, Mrs Hall.
Front row left, Miss Miller

went to cuthberts in late 50"s early 60"s,remember most of them.last year was in mrs darwins class ,right about the temper,lol.32 in class 31 passed 11 plus great school

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My Mum is 1st left at the back next to Miss Magee......She was Rose Hall and she took the choir.....it would be in the 1950's.....Sadly she died in 1992.....she left myself and my brother &6 grandchildren.......she had a beautiful singing voice and she loved teaching...

I remember MRS hall - taught me in junior 4, she wasmy favourite teached, really kine - I rmember with great fondness - taught me in 1970 though.

joe mcardle used to smoke like a factory chimney

hi, on the bottom row in the middle of brendon murphy and smokey joe mcardle i think its miss howard.

gerard finan back row

Wierd to see that so many of my teachers from the mid seventies went back as far as the 50's! I was there up to 1976 and remember Mrs Docherty, Mrs Hall, Miss Darwin, Mrs Magee, Mr Murphy - others there were Mr Toman, Mr Dean, Mrs Hanley (my Dad's cousin), Mrs Barton (really nice) - excellent time!

My mam Ada was a Dinner lady here for many years. I left in 1965 and also had three older stepsisters who went to the school, their names were Kathleen, Pat and Margaret Flood.

went to st.cuthberts infant and jnr 1954 to 1960 joe mcardle great teacher firm but fair,had brill time with my best mates alan cocharan (corky)and terry byrnes

I remember mess ing about with a school chair, put my head through the bar at the bottom, and got it well and truly stuck, teacher was livid and sent me to Mr Murphy, I had to walk down the corrider holding this school chair in tears, wondering what the headmaster would say, he was lovely, got the caretaker to come and relieve me of my headgear, thought I was going have a coronary, when I glimpsed the saw in his hand, and Mr Murphy lifted the waste paper bin up, and said it was so the blood wouldn't go all over the floor, I didn't do that again, I can tell you

Mr McArdle was a tuff teacher who I think became very bitter as he aged, he got seriously ill in the late 60s and my mother was his nurse while he was in hospital and all the other teachers constantly got updates about his condition from my mother via me, his illness was smoking related as he was a chain smoker. He ruled the class with an iron fist and he used to punish pupils by making them lie down flat on the floor and make them raise their feet a couple inches off the ground with straight legs, if your heel touched the ground you got a whack with a ruler on your legs. I have to ask my mother when he eventually passed away. Mr Murphy got the MBE or OBE and he proudly showed it to us all at a special school assembly in honour of his award, a great headmaster. I have a class first communion photo taken I think in 1967, I will put the photo up in the next few days as soon as I work out how to. Mrs. Lowe used to be my art teacher in the annex and I am sure she rather be called Ms Lowe. Playing marbles in the school yard was a big deal and I used to love ringing the bell at the end of recess and at afternoon recess we used to sneak around to the canteen and they would give us any left over food. My family emigrated to Australia in 1971 at the age of 12 and I was in second year at St Thomas Mores when we left and I can assure you schools were very different down under and I am still here at 56 years of age and loving it.

Correction, I just found my first communion certificate signed by Canon Carney and the year was April 3rd 1965 (My birthday) not 1967 as stated above, I will submit the class communion photo with as many names as possible (my memory is fading) and a copy of the certificate. My email is sgmc@adam.com.au

Although most teachers were kind, Hurst and Darwin could be sadistic bitches. If you ever lost your ruler and Hurst found it, she would wack you on the hand before returning it. Darwin kept a cane in the window ledge. I was well behaved and never received it but as I was about to leave, she toyed with giving it to me merely because I had not had it.