Bishop Ullathorne Schools (girls, boys and grammar school)

Photo was taken around 1960/2. I was at the grammar school between 1957 and 1962. I am 2nd left on back row and know all the girls.

Welcome to the forum jenbloxham. I'm sure you will stir some replies from that clear photo.

I have a couple of photos from Year 1 and Year 2 of the Grammar School. The first year after the girls move to Wiseman. So we were first all boys stream. I'll try to remember and post them.

As promised first photo of class 1a 1960 I can remember some names: Front row: Baker; nk; nk; nk; nk; Teacher?; nk; Me; nk; nk; nk

Hi Dave Was 1a housed in the main building or the huts when you were there?

Had to be main building, don't recollect huts. I believe Latin teacher was our class teacher. He used a wooden ruler to rap knuckles

Fred Feighan by any chance? I don't entirely recognize him from the picture but it was a few years before I first saw him and there is a strong resemblance.

That's quite surprising since according to planning records they were first erected in 1957 then considerably extended in 1959. There is no way you could get from the main building to the playing fields without passing the huts. By the time I went there in 1965 all of the junior years were housed in them. Perhaps it's a misunderstanding of phraseology? You do understand I'm referring to the eight temporary classrooms next to the girls' school but used exclusively by the grammar boys? All the time I was there they were referred to as "the huts" although you may have had a different name for them.

In 1957 the huts were used by the girls' school for shorthand, typing and office practice.

Thank you Tricia I'm assuming that was back when it was just a pair of classrooms, before the other six were added later. Imagine spending most of the school day in those huts, our stream did for four out of the five years we were there. They were occupied by girls again from 1969 onwards but were finally demolished some time in the 1970s. They were only ever supposed to last for five years.

It must have been awful to spend so long in the huts. We were only in them 2/3 times a week and I didn't like it. I don't know if I'm getting confused but I seem to remember they were heated by a smelly oil stove.

They may have been originally Tricia but by the time I was there they had central heating radiators in every classroom. No toilets though, we had to use the ones in the main building block which were some distance away. I believe the radiator boiler gave trouble in later years and was one of the reasons the huts were finally knocked down.

Gibbet Hill Signal Cabin I spent almost every lunch break up that oak tree in the playing fields. It's not obvious from the picture but there is a very steep slope between the school playing fields and the railway line.

I attended the Grammar School the first year it was opened, 1957 I think, until 1960. I would like to contact anyone who was in the "C" class at that time. Two of my class mates were Sheila Wankling and Christine Scanlon. Age and time have erased some most of the names but many faces are still fresh in my memory .

Blimey! Ullathorne eh? I was one of the scruffs that attended the Boys Sec. Mod. from 64-68. So a bit younger than you lot by the sounds of it! My older sisters attended Ullathorne though. Jacqueline Adams (born 1949, now deceased) and Yvonne Adams (born 1952). They were probably there from 1963 - 1967. We'd moved from a convent in Birmingham in December '63 so we were at Ullathorne at varying times.