Shiregreen school aka bracken hill school

[mark1971]

If my memory serves me right Gary was into judo

[clinteastwoo]

anyone remeber mr innman

[mark1971]

anyone remeber mr innman

 

Oh yes i think he was the deputy head.

[nuttycow13]

i think gary and my brother did judo at concord for a while. I remember mr Inman, he was deputy head when i was there.

[deeno]

anyone remember Mr innman

 

Oh yes oh yes me and Norman go way back hope hes still alive and kicking

would love to meet up with the old fellow now.

 

 

P.S he may be shocked to see how i turned out.

[nuttycow13]

hiya dean

seem to remember you had a few runins with mr inman , did you ever get the cane from him or had it just been stopped when we went to hind house? When you look back, wasn't school brill.

[phenom1994]

i used to go to braken hill and when it used to rain in a morning we would all sit and listen to stories and vagly i remember this but one tme it started to thunder and we were doing our nativity and it started to thunder and all of a sudden a chair was tipped over and the lights started to dim. someone said they saw a figure flot across the room.

[beady]

Went through most of the 3 schools in th 50's/early 60's. The Nursery Infants was located on the ground floor of the 2 storey block at the top of Bracken Road. Miss Lynch was the head then, Mrs Lee? in charge of the Nursery. The Juniors were housed in the single storey building lower down Bracken Road, Headteacher in the late 50's was a Mr Ron Raynor, deputy Mr Norman Coombs, other staff from memory - Mrs Betty Hill, Bernard Priest (later to become head as mentioned above). He started there about 1958/9? The secondary was located on the 1st floor above the Nursery Infants and had a relatively high number of pupils in hutted accommodation between the school playground and the old quarry / brickworks. Headteacher was Mr Harold Lamb, succeeded by Mr Smith. Teachers again from memory - Mr Broadhead, Mr Moss, Mr David, Fred Collins replaced as PE teacher by Mr. Naylor, Mr Watkin, Mr Burgin, Mr Lawton, Miss Fincham, Mr Heywood, Mr Martin, Mrs Mosely etc etc. The schools at that time I thought were very good, most were very good teachers, good discipline in a catchment area where there was a terrific mix. The enclosure was built around 1961/2 - a rectangle all weather play surface (compacted grit sand) enclosed by a 9 foot or so chainlink fence. A great boon to the sports department. The hutted accommodation were old Nissan huts housing the kitchen, art room, science lab, the HORSA huts (concrete block, pitched asbestos roofs/metal casement windows) housed music, woodwork and general classrooms. About 5 double blocks built right on the school boundary in a line overlooking the quarry. Playgrounds - the juniors had 2 - 1 to the side of the buiding adjacent to Wincobank Avenue, the other behind the building. Air-raid shelters (blast shelters really) surrounded the perimeter of the yards. The secondary school had 2 playgrounds - 1 to the rear (boys) and 1 between the 2 storey block and the junior school shared by the infants and senior girls. Play-shelters and external toilets were in both the latter yards - the juniors didn't have a playshelter. I was always led to believe the original 2 storey block was built to house (or was used) for 1st World War casualties. Loads more in my memory banks if anyone's interested or might have bored folks enough? Happy days back then:)

[tebort]

I went here in the 90's when it was Bracken Hill Primary. Tony Laycock as Head, later Mrs Burgess (I can never remember her first name)

 

I stayed here until Y5. I remember the yellow staircase was creepy as hell, and if you were brave enough to go down that staircase instead of the red staircase on the other side of the building, you used to run like hell, so the Green Lady would not get you.

 

That staircase to the attic was scary....

 

I'm also interested in finding out more about the hospital it was before it was a school.

[lestuck]

i went to shiregreen school from nursery up to leaving school .my father went to shiregreen from being 8 years old i have the pics if he were alive he would be 93 that gives you some idea on the age