@Kaytee posted:

Don’t think we did in detail….but can’t really remember🤣🤣

could have done a different syllabus

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

we had a log burner with a safety guard around it...ours was stacked on there

@Baz posted:

Yes, cos it was left in the crates , in the sun , and waxy straws

And frozen solid in the winter…..or shoved next to the stove in the corner and went off🤮🤮🤮

@Kaytee posted:

Mine was posh but then I wasn’t in the UK…..bit of a culture shock when I had to go to school here🤣

my first two schools were Victorian

I remember my mum threatening me that if I didn’t work hard at school I’d end up in the workhouse

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

could have done a different syllabus

More like I’ve forgotten🤣

@Kaytee posted:

And frozen solid in the winter…..or shoved next to the stove in the corner and went off🤮🤮🤮

yes

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

my first two schools were Victorian

So we’re mine Dame ….

@Kaytee posted:

And frozen solid in the winter…..or shoved next to the stove in the corner and went off🤮🤮🤮

Yes🤮🤮🤮🤮🤮

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

my first two schools were Victorian

Primary was….senior had radiators…..milk was still horrible though

@Kaytee posted:

More like I’ve forgotten🤣

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

yes

It was bliddy awful🤣

Wow , those inkwells and pens take me back

@Baz posted:

So we’re mine Dame ….

I remember the inkwells too, we had to fill them each morning

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

I remember the inkwells too, we had to fill them each morning

Yes , if you were ink monitors

We had inkwells and dippy pens…….grammar we could use fountain pens

@Kaytee posted:

It was bliddy awful🤣

it was, to this day I still can't drink milk

@Baz posted:

Yes , if you were ink monitors

Dodged that🤣🤣🤣

@Baz posted:

So we’re mine Dame ….

mine was built in 1906  and still going

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

it was, to this day I still can't drink milk

Nor me dame ….….. only milk I have is in my tea …and then it has to be straight from the fridge , and even then , only a dash

@Baz posted:

Yes , if you were ink monitors

yes

@Kaytee posted:

We had inkwells and dippy pens…….grammar we could use fountain pens

we were allowed fountain pens in the last year in Primary

@Kaytee posted:

We had inkwells and dippy pens…….grammar we could use fountain pens

only ever used fountain pens or cartridge pens

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

it was, to this day I still can't drink milk

Yes…..me neither, not if they paid me🤢🤣

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

mine was built in 1906  and still going

@Kaytee posted:

Dodged that🤣🤣🤣

omg and  me

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

mine was built in 1906  and still going

mine have gone now, infants has been turned into a detached house, the Primary across the road is now a care home

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

yes

we were allowed fountain pens in the last year in Primary

yes so were we

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

mine have gone now, infants has been turned into a detached house, the Primary across the road is now a care home

I just checked …mine is still there.

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

mine have gone now, infants has been turned into a detached house, the Primary across the road is now a care home

awwww

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

only ever used fountain pens or cartridge pens

Think our teachers were Victorian to match the school🤣

@Kaytee posted:

Yes…..me neither, not if they paid me🤢🤣

yep, same here

@Kaytee posted:

Yes…..me neither, not if they paid me🤢🤣

🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Kaytee posted:

Think our teachers were Victorian to match the school🤣

Didn’t crossleys make carpets

@Kaytee posted:

Think our teachers were Victorian to match the school🤣

Ditto 🤣🤣🤣

@Baz posted:

I just checked …mine is still there.

@Dame_Ann_Average posted:

mine have gone now, infants has been turned into a detached house, the Primary across the road is now a care home

Mine has gone too…..new houses on the land….it was a very large plot with infants,junior and secondary on the one site

@Rocking Ros Rose posted:

only ever used fountain pens or cartridge pens

I had stained ink fingers until I was 10

@Kaytee posted:

Mine has gone too…..new houses on the land….it was a very large plot with infants,junior and secondary on the one site

12 people sharing one loo wouldn’t do for Ros and I