http://voicesofpostwarengland.com An oral history of the working-class Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:33:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://voicesofpostwarengland.com/education/whitley-abbey-comprehensive/#comment-51 Amanda Walton Sat, 18 Oct 2008 18:13:08 +0000 http://voicesofpostwarengland.wordpress.com/?page_id=187#comment-51 Like you I went there in 1955 and I cried because no one in our family knew what a Comprehensive school was and my brother was going to Bablake and I thought I had failed my 11+ Anyway I loved the school, fell off the bridge because they had not put the guard rails up straightaway - actually we jumped off to see if we could get thedayoff- I remember Mrs Duffy head of Warwick, who taught English and terrified me, Mr Poole who read us Sherlock Holmes every time we had English Literature and Mr Satchwell who we all thought incredibly handsome and were madly keen on . Thanks for the reminder about the cooking I had forgotten that... we were also taught how to starch and iron properly, which I hated. We used to dig up pignuts at the edge of the sports field and eat them something else I have never done since! Like you I went there in 1955 and I cried because no one in our family knew what a Comprehensive school was and my brother was going to Bablake and I thought I had failed my 11+ Anyway I loved the school, fell off the bridge because they had not put the guard rails up straightaway – actually we jumped off to see if we could get thedayoff- I remember Mrs Duffy head of Warwick, who taught English and terrified me, Mr Poole who read us Sherlock Holmes every time we had English Literature and Mr Satchwell who we all thought incredibly handsome and were madly keen on . Thanks for the reminder about the cooking I had forgotten that… we were also taught how to starch and iron properly, which I hated. We used to dig up pignuts at the edge of the sports field and eat them something else I have never done since!

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