Malcolm can be seen in the background in his gown. Please let me know if you recall the article at the site email address: Can anyone remember in the late 50s the Daily Mirror publishing an article supposedly from the residents of the houses opposite the yard complaining about the balls landing in their front gardens and the abuse the lads gave them when recovering the balls. In the following year, Mr Wynne Hughes decided it should be Rugby that was played, because Rock Ferry and Park High Schools played this sport. There was the Corner Shop on the corner of Claughton Road and Coventry Street which sold sweets and newspapers which had a distinct mouth watering aroma with the combined smell of sticky toffee, boiled sweets, liquorice and powdered sherbet . Granny and Grandpa always seemed to be dressed in black. He also taught us the elements of book stitching. presence at Whetstone Lane when I left school in 1973.) Does anyone know if it is Keith in the picture? Through this contribution, I just wanted to say how thankful I am for what I learned while at BI. My eldest brother Jackie was sent to his grandparents in Northern Ireland who lived in Donaghadee. I remember having a red jacket and being warned not to go near fields because bulls were attracted to red!! Mr Cartwright. Search. I remember having my first comic. Go. I went to them all, even though the Queens was known as “The Flea Pit”. Former B.I. The School's magazine for July 2012. The cubs met in a church in Price Street. Mr Webb joined us as French teacher in the upper sixth form about the end of World War II, new to the school. The face was fun to paint on the white tissue covered shape. MEMORIES PAGE Here are some pictures from the B.I., including an old school report, the school rules in 1963, the complete school photographs from 1960, 1965, 1968, and the complete Speech Day programme from 1961. Lots of sandbags were placed around the school at ground level especially around the windows of the classrooms. R. A. Homan (Chaplain) , Published 1983 by Birkenhead School; This record comprises all information held by IWM’s War Memorials Register for this memorial. Change was returned back to the assistant in the same way. for Kirkdale. Another way was to have the apples in a bowl of water on the table, or floor, and trying to get them out with your teeth without using your hands. When I visited their house near Victoria Park, Higher Tranmere, the baby was hemmed in by Idris’s large watercolour paintings of places in the Far East, taped to glass. Included in this site, there are links to two areas containing Pupils' Memories, as well as an area dedicated to the B.I. There were lots of people watching. I remember going to the park and playing games with the other cubs, as well as the dib dobs and “promises”, but now all rather hazy though I do remember the neckerchief which was light green with a yellow border. at the end of the 1960s, recalls some memories from his days there. 302 likes. In this room was a grey patterned moquette covered 3 piece suite that my father had made, and by the fireplace was a small copper kettle which I played with. The sound was everywhere. I also remember my surprise to see that teachers were not supposed to leave the school once they had completed their lessons in the classroom, as is done in French lycées. It may or may not have been a Grade II listed building, but it had to go. Grand Tour Where The Heart Is Jamaica Sunlight Liverpool My Dream Bridge British Tours. He was a good teacher and had a wide command of the language. A Chorley-born ex-grocer and a former Blackburn tea merchant, both with successful businesses in Chizzy (though dealing in vastly different commodities) ended up backing a hospital and a school together. Invigilating. My father was good at making things like that. The shops opened for business as usual, and people queued for hours if there was something special on offer. Imagine, if you will, two 19th century businessmen setting up factories within a few yards of each other. Having already pointed out that he was “a well-known philanthropist, liberal and founder of Birkenhead Institute”, the author notes that “George Atkin… had made his fortune firstly as a tea merchant in Blackburn and secondly as an asphalt manufacturer in Liverpool.”. My mother was a great knitter and I was shown how to knit at an early age. Where we hold a names list for the memorial, this information will be displayed on the memorial record. * 587 * images to date Fri 15th January 2021 9:17 am GMT www.wirralmemories.co.uk The railway lines always seemed full with goods wagons with large letters painted on the sides. Eventually we would arrive at Secombe Ferry where there was a white funnel topped with black and full of holes. The courses are open to all and we welcome children from all schools to join us during their school holidays. The staff room was then full of teachers who read the papers, occasionally adding coal to the fireplace, or played bridge at lunchtime, which was an even more surprising sight ! In many respects, my school year in Birkenhead was even quite decisive in my life. We built a tool box, a compost heap and grew lots of vegetables. Mr Paris ruled in the Art Room in my early days in the Senior School. It was characteristic of the man who had done so much for education in his own city, and its main purport was to advise the directors not to proceed with the buildings until the financial position of the company was reasonably safe. Alongside the floating roadway was some form of water pumping which produced noisy torrents of water which flowed into the River Mersey. However he spoke perfect fluent French which may suggest he had spent some time in the country during the conflict. But in spite of the fact that by December 1885 two of the directors had resigned, Mr Atkin nobly stuck to his task, and in an endeavour to attract subscribers, a new prospectus was issued in January 1886, with a frontispiece designed by [Mr T. Mellard Reade, F.R.I.B.A., a well-known school architect], showing the perspective of the proposed buildings; but in June, the number of shares had risen by only 55, and Mr Henry Tate wrote advising the abandonment of the scheme. It was a relief to go home. As a French assistant, I had very small groups of pupils (three or four in a classroom, sixth formers mainly) who, at the beginning, were very shy to speak French. Sugar was weighed and poured out into blue coloured bags and the tops sealed by folding. Birkenhead in the 1950s – it bears no resemblance to how it is today – it does’nt even look the same. Throughout 1886 the future of the uncompleted school was still in doubt; “At this critical period, it was apparent to Mr Atkin that the necessary funds could not be raised in Birkenhead, and he must have written to several influential citizens of Liverpool, urging them to take shares in the company. Buses ran during the war, as did trains. Some of the ships had tethered barrage balloons flying above them. He somehow coped with the fact that our mother was with us. In the cellar was the large tin bath which we used to have baths, the hot water coming from the boiler. They lived in Liverpool, in Shiel Road , a house I remember, especially the Jewish Star made in brass which sat on the table in Aunt Sarah’s house, alongside a small brass candle-stick holder for small candles. from Edinburgh. However, websites commemorating the school have been of considerable assistance in my investigations of the links between two industrial giants of Chisenhale Street. I thought blue tits were so beautiful seeing them so close. We waved and cheered as they passed us by. The local pond was frozen and sliding and attempts at skating was the order for the day. My eldest brother Jackie had one purchased from there. From our new home I walked to Cole Street School and back, though by now I could just manage to ride the black painted “Federal” bicycle, but it was a little too big for me. Empire Day was a half day holiday. Skipping was fun, as was Hopscotch, Bowling Hoops (usually old discarded bicycle wheels) and using a stick to keep it moving, using pieces of slate to make “Clappers”, “Diabalo” and making “Whizzers” using carboard circles attached to string, or large buttons, and “Pat a ball” using small wooden bats and a rubber ball attached to a length of thin elastic trying to beat the record number of “pats” either vertically, horizontally or upwards. I can remember winning National Savings Stamps for “Wings for Victory” week with a model Spitfire I had made ( with some help from my father) which was displayed in the Town Hall and awarded 1st prize, in a competition for schools, as was a poster which had also entered which won 3rd prize. Uncle Albert bought his Gallagher cigarettes from there. Money paid for purchases were placed in a cylinderical shiney metal container and attached to an overhead wire and pulled by a wooden handle by the shop assistant. Art Teacher Dave Jones:-, B.I. Burnt skin from the sun’s rays was quite normal and acceptable for having a tanned skin. The course also included practical objective drawing and painting, and poster or commercial art. Subjects 341 to 360 of 541 <> Today's messages are highlighted in red: … Let’s assume they did. Jessie White ( whose birthday is the same as mine), Joyce Davies, Stephen Stone, Gordon Edwards, Raymond East, Leslie Blackwell, Ronnie Roberts, Gordon Edwards, and Rex Marlow. Some … I can picture the whole journey in advance. He was very interested in the development of modern town planning. Sadly the initial recipient of the Tate Scholarship was one of the first Institute Old Boys to be killed in the Great War.” [Other First World War casualties connected with the school included Wilfred Owen, the school’s most famous former pupil, killed two weeks before The Armistice; and G.D.H. It had a long tail, and it flew. Mr Smith was later in "Remove J" with Mr Lewis as Form Master. Atkin. He took up the story of history from the Great Reform Bill into modern times, and his witty characterisations of great Victorian statesmen really brought them to life. Star Activities is run by Birkenhead School and offers an exciting range of activity courses for girls and boys aged 4 to 15 years of age. We usually had a cabin, and the journey, quite often, was very rough. In 71 were the Threlfall family. He was a good tutor to students looking for a career in the design world, or  keen to develop artistic skills. Beresford Road. Photo of Birkenhead, Ferry And Bus Terminus 1964. It still is. The Head was Mr.D.H.Cooper who became an important figure in Birkenhead’s Education development later, and a great influence on my life. The budgerigars were housed in an outside aviary with a nesting box attached to the wall. When I first heard him speak French, I could have taken him for a Frenchman, so excellent were his accent and his pronunciation. We collected milk and eggs from Nox’s farm just below “Sans Souci”. The newly opened Tate Laboratory was so named in his honour in 1892. But I much preferred Liverpool and the short trip across the Mersey. Most of the places I remember are gone. As I write these reminiscences I realise the time scale and chronological order of events are somewhat jumbled, but nevertheless worthy of recording, even if only to satisfy my own ego, as well as giving an insight into my childhood life. The smell mingled with the aroma of smoked bacon. Here are his memories of Mr Edge:-"I remember Mr.Edge very well. We grew vegetables and marrows and even loganberries. At the back of my memory there is a picture of being put into a brown wooden sided light brown coloured ambulance and taken to a place which had a bed looking into the night. Mr Hall was my regular English Literature master through the senior school ‘A’ stream. Atkin. (The fourth of the original B.I. But as time went on, I noticed that they were making progress and that their French came out more easily. http://www.biob.co.uk/AdVisor%202012.pdf “AD-VISOR”, Issue 17, Autumn 2012. Small and slim with wavy dark hair, he wore heavy spectacles as he was rather short sighted. I travelled a bit – particularly in Scotland and London. THE … The meat shop had large wooden benches for preparing the cuts of meat. Attendance at school was somewhat disrupted, especially when it was discovered that there was an unexploded bomb just near the entrance to the park, about 50 yards from the school. She also interviewed me for admission in her small office under the stairs in the old building. Subsequently, the Whetstone Lane site went through its own Eldonian Village-type “Phoenix from the Ashes” experience when the pupils of nearby Woodlands Primary moved into a fine-looking new school which was built there. At the Grange Road West end was “Robbs” a large departmental store and was rather up market, to Allinsons at the other end. You could enter the shop from Grange Road as well as John Street. We went with my brother’s evacuation school group, Hemingford Street School , which was a Central School. The clothes were dried on a line in the backyard which had a pulley so that they could be raised high to catch the wind. Re: Park High School, Birkenhead, [Re: MerseyMan] #201005 26th Jan 2008 12:58pm 26th Jan 2008 12:58pm: Joined: Aug 2007 Posts: 2,989 Birkenhead, United Kingdom. These short notes reflect my personal memories of  staff who taught me during my time at the school. Facebook is showing information to help you better understand the purpose of a Page. Birkenhead School Chapel 1883-1983 (Booklet), Centenary historyof Chapel by Rev. Jackie came home in the thick of the air raid saying that he had helped to put out an incendiary bomb. We ate dried eggs, spam, and on occasion, even used dried milk. The Ritz cinema had an electric organ which rose up, as if by magic, from below the screen level and was visible by the whole audience. School continued. Pomegranates with their edible pips extracted with a safety pin from the blood red interior was fun. See more ideas about old photos, merseyside, birkenhead. Western Rhyn was a small place, and we stayed with a Mrs Rogers. This was part of the world I knew and took for granted. Most places we walked to locally, and it was only on the “big” adventures did we use public transport . George recalls that in his first year at the B.I., he payed Soccer in a jersey with narrow vertical black and gold stripes. I wonder who did buy them? One had cherry tree patterns in red on a white background and the other had a similar pattern, but in blue. His obituary describes George as a “prominent Liverpool and Birkenhead Liberal”, and also notes that G.D.H Atkin attended Birkenhead School - rather than Birkenhead Institute.]. Birkenhead on Wirral Memories, a website that displays pictures and photographs of Birkenhead and the Wirral, past and present. referenced. I saw masses of roses growing everywhere and the smell was exquisite. She owned and ran a newsagent’s shop in Brownlow Hill. OO Are Eye". I remember him as a well built friendly man with a great gift in his teaching area. The windmill fascinated me as did the Observatory, but did not really understand how important the Bidston Observatory was until I was much older. Official Facebook page for Birkenhead School, Wirral's only selective, co-educational school- a leading school for boys and girls from nursery to sixth form. Mr Jones was a round short Welshman, my Lower Sixth Form Master, and taught Chemistry in the large and gaseous Chemistry lab which occupied the central part of the school’s main façade. Tank tops and bell bottoms-memoirs of a Birkenhead lad I was born in Birkenhead in 1954 at the back of Central Station, opposite the Haymarket, and still remember being hungry all the time. My visit to him at home after he was married to Hetty left an impression, when I had brought in my small landscape painting of the Dee estuary. Jan 11, 2020 - Explore Ella Higginson's board "old photos of wirral" on Pinterest. I remember being shown how to trap birds to look at them close to. I remember a sketching day with her in Wirral at Woodchurch, and also taking her home to tea. The bulb wattage was always low to save money. So two of those heavily involved in the foundation of the Homeopathic Hospital had Birkenhead Institute schoolhouses named after them, and it’s not unreasonable to assume that J.C. Stitt had a family link to someone who was similarly honoured. ‘Dickie’ eventually moved to another school in Lancashire in the years after World War II. School Photograph in four parts, with some names added by James for pupils and staff. I had never seen building construction on this scale before using brick and concrete. Williams. Why? The victories over The Birkenhead School and Wade Deacon Grammar School were the highlights of the season for me. Across the Mersey Liverpool University was developing one of the first post graduate planning courses, inspired by Professor Sir Patrick Abercromby, at that time attached to the school of architecture where I was to graduate in the 1950s. The loudspeaker was big enough to put your arm down and feel the vibrations when a record was playing. It stood on a tall elegant wooden Edwardian stand. He had a good sense of humour, even when chastising a slow mover with the end of a climbing rope. The throb of aeroplane engines droned on for what seemed like hours, and the guns pounded the air as bombs whistled towards the ground. George Edwards, (B.I. There was an alley way which served the rear of the houses. Shops Cars Health Fitness Eco Money Business Faith. I don’t have a ‘sat-nav’; my car is stuffed with OS sheets. George Atkin and Henry Tate; asphalt manufacturer and sugar refiner. My earliest memories are inevitably confused with the passage of time. There was always the pervading smell of dampness associated with cellars, which I can readily re-call, even today, and the cement covered floor always seemed to have a permanent shiny film glaze of wetness, and it was mustily dark, even with the light coming through the grating and windows at ground level. KEITH SEDMAN, PUPIL 1942 - 1949 . Miss Hetty Rosenbloom. The picture shows Miss Bowers and Miss Booth with pupils in the Junior School garden. I must say I rather missed the bangs and crumps and did not really settle in my Glasgow school, although I did have a very good Physics teacher for my stay there. Bowers. Cousin Billy showed me how he could make a photographic image appear on a piece of paper by holding it to towards the light. I think this was the first time I had actually been outside in a storm. Tall, rather gangly, with a slightly long sad face which hid a high sense of humour, he was always in his well-worn gown. I very much look forward to receiving your memories, recollections, thoughts and impressions of a very fine Grammar School: Birkenhead Institute. If anyone else remembers him, please let me know at the site email address:-, Here is the 1943 B.I. These include the school cricket and rugby teams, along with Keith's medals which he won in 1949 for his successes in Cross Country. I hope to be able to add some more interesting items from former pupils and staff shortly. He eventually handed over the art course to Nancy Price who joined us straight from Art School. I can remember my paternal grandfather and mother staying with us, when they visited us from Donaghadee, Northern Ireland, but I can’t remember the sleeping arrangements although the house did have 3 bedrooms. My father didn’t approve in case I damaged the wireless. My father was an upholsterer and apparently tried to set up his own business working from home, but it failed with the recession. Walking along unlit lanes, and roads at night in the full moon cloudless sky with my mother and brother has always remained vividly with me. Building a sandcastle and making tracks for a small ball to meander through and out of the structure still has a fascination for me. Post Toasties and Porridge Oats were part of the diet. At the bottom of the lane crossing the main road was the beach and the sea. It was an open topped car. My parents had the front room and George and I slept in the middle room, whilst Jackie had the box room when he was home on leave. The Boy from the Black Stuff and the Boy from the White Stuff. George was still at school and so was I. Jackie became a member of the Homeguard, and my father seemed to be away working on ships at Barrow-in-Furness, or in Glasgow and sometimes he returned to work in Cammell Lairds. Sometimes we would take the bus home. The flush toilet was a small outside affair with an ill fitting door at the top and bottom, complete with scrubbed wooden seat. This plant ceased working about 1931 and the land on which it stood, together with the empty buildings, was acquired by Tate & Lyle…”. But that is another story…. This story has been placed in the following categories. 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