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Post by lin on Jan 9, 2007 9:01:39 GMT -1
Hi all..here's another one. What was your favourite subject at school? or what did you excel in? Mine was art,  spelling, which seems to have left me these days  must be an age thing ? I also liked the games, swimming etc...so come on guys, lets get this thing rolling  Lin |
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Post by vivien on Jan 9, 2007 10:00:50 GMT -1
Hi Lin
My best subject was English - I hated maths and my maths teacher despaired at me (my brother was so much better he was always quick to tell me). Our art teacher was a Percy Reece who used to make me very angry because he was so sarcastic about the class. I realised many years later he was only trying to get us to really look at objects and not take them for granted. I liked sport and always wanted to be in the netball team but I wasn't good enough and was too small. The girls said I could be the mascot and the only time I was supposed to go with them to a match, which was a Saturday I slept in !! Ha well story of my life. My school was Miles Platting Sec Mod known to us lot as "Holland Street". They were really ahead of their time, teaching us golf (we only joined that club because the teacher was dishy) and then letting us loose on the red rec in a MSM car teaching us to drive !!! Years later I was watching an old black and white film and recognised our school. I think Albert Finney was in it. I have lots of photos of school but the last year we had them taken and for some reason never got them. Fred Williams was our headmaster. Does anyone else remembers these days ?
Viv
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Post by lin on Jan 9, 2007 11:22:48 GMT -1
Hi Vivien,
I didn't like maths myself, although I seemed to get by ok.
I used to be in the netball team and hockey team etc...I remember our teacher, Mr Ellis, loveliest guy you could wish to meet, he caught me in a bit of rucus with a lad and he got the both of us in the gym saying, now we'll do it proper...He made us both put on boxing gloves and I broke the poor lads glasses and knocked him out...the teacher was in fits of laughter about it but I wasn't....but do you know my favourite thing to watch now, apart from Man-utd is boxing.
Lin
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 12:53:13 GMT -1
Hi Viv, Have you had a look at www.images.manchester.gov.uk. You'll be on there all day. Just type in the name of the street, school, road etc. on the Home page and away you go....... |
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 13:10:18 GMT -1
Hi Lin, Guess what? I excelled in TALKING at school   No surprises there !!!!  I liked English, mainly because the teacher Miss Proctor was always nice to me, and Art. I hated Maths, and still do; French, because the teacher Miss Hood was slightly off her rocker. Loved RE because I liked the teacher Mrs. Oswald. I also liked one of the only male teachers in the school, Mr. Smith. Cant remember what he taught though. We were really badly behaved in his class and one day we all decided to embarrass him by staring at his crotch and he lost the plot completely and turned a bright red. It couldnt have been easy teaching a load of pre-pubescent girls !!!! ;D  |
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Post by vivien on Jan 9, 2007 13:28:00 GMT -1
Have looked at the page you suggested Lisa and yes you are right I was on it all day. Found my Grandads shop on it that was how I knew it was on the corner of Shears Street. One of my favourtie subjects was also TALKIN - think you must have been quite a naughty girl at your school !!!!!! I am making up for it now by being quite rebellious as I have got older !!
Viv
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 13:57:34 GMT -1
Hi Viv, I guess you could say I was 'naughty' at school. One of the many 'things' I did was to get stuck between two cupboards in Domestic Science and the Janitor had to be called out to free me. The other was flingling my overhead plug, which hung from the ceiling, into all the other plugs and tangling them all up. The Janitor was called in AGAIN.......The DS teacher was called Miss Pearce and I used to call her "Miss P I S S" and she never caught on - at least I dont think she did....... Oh, yes, and another one was turning up for a school photo in my bridemaids dress. The teacher promptly put me on the back row so they couldnt see it. I could tell you loads more but I cant type for laughing...... ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 14:29:06 GMT -1
Does anyone remember the rhyme about SCHOOL DINNERS?: Here goes:
School dinners
School dinners
concrete chips
concrete chips
soggy semolina
soggy semolina
I feel sick
Fetch the bucket quick
Its too late
I've done it on my plate.........
Can anyone remember the song or nursery rhyme it was sung to?
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Post by vivien on Jan 9, 2007 14:46:34 GMT -1
Hi Lisa
Dont remember the song but have a feeling it would have been sung to the tune of ....wait for it cant spell it....Frara Chacker !!!!!! you know the french song
Viv
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 14:56:20 GMT -1
Hi Viv, That's the one FRERE JACQUES.......I've been in the kitchen singing the song but couldnt remember where the tune came from. Thanks. |
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Post by vivien on Jan 9, 2007 14:57:35 GMT -1
Lisa
It was a wild guess and you better than me 'cause you can spell it !!!
Viv
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Post by lin on Jan 9, 2007 15:01:03 GMT -1
Hi Lisa R... Think I could join you, I excelled in talking myself What can be worse that a load of pre-pubescent girls? I got worse the older I got, must admit I didn't like school really, I had plenty of friends but I think I went through that stage of anti -establishment if you know what I mean? Lin |
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 15:05:38 GMT -1
How about Pre-pubescent boys........ Hi Lisa R... Think I could join you, I excelled in talking myself What can be worse that a load of pre-pubescent girls? I got worse the older I got, must admit I didn't like school really, I had plenty of friends but I think I went through that stage of anti -establishment if you know what I mean? Lin |
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Post by lin on Jan 9, 2007 15:08:34 GMT -1
Hi Lisa R.
What happened here? I only replied once but it's come up as a quote as well....now I can't see your message.
Lin
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Post by Lisa on Jan 9, 2007 15:19:57 GMT -1
Hi Lin, It was me replying to your pre-pubescent girls bit and put it in quotes, If you look at the top of quote box you will see what I put.
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Post by lin on Jan 9, 2007 15:56:53 GMT -1
Hi Lisa R It's really weird because I've refreshed, gone off mm and tried again, but for some reason there is no text showing on my computer....I think I'm totally losing the plot here Lin |
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Post by clancy on Jan 15, 2007 3:10:02 GMT -1
Lin  i didn't excel in anything in school only dreaming and playing soccer ;D i used to stick up for the underdog in the school yard other wise i was very quite tommy ox |
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Post by lin on Jan 15, 2007 14:13:16 GMT -1
Tommy, all I can say is you must have excelled in flirting, ok I'm teasing you now I used to always stick up for the underdog as well, hated to see ppl being bullied. Lin |
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Post by bodzy3 on Feb 13, 2007 12:11:47 GMT -1
Mine was maths I used to love it ,I used to give myself homewrk and tell my mam"teacher told me I have to do it by mornin" just to stay up at night It worked cosI left school top boy in the class gettin 20 out of 20 in mental arithmatic later came in useful as I spent 30years as a top bartender and later 15years as a taxi driver
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Post by avros on Feb 18, 2007 22:35:05 GMT -1
I excelled at being quick witted and also the fastest guy on two feet pushing a crate of milk at my first school Bowker Vale. One of I disagreeignments ay school was to deliver a packet of tea to the tachers each week. I liveded on Dexter Road and opposite a grocery shop. Pick up the tea place it in the school caddie and of I went. Prior to classes starting one day, some of the boys - including me, were swinging over the rails above the toilets. Mr. Horsefall the headmaster came in just then. what the devil, you , you, you to my office looking at me next, I retorted. "Here's your tea Sir" handing him the tea caddie. Thanks Blevins The rest of you. Get out.
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Post by avros on Feb 18, 2007 22:48:31 GMT -1
School milk -That great standard drink that produced so many bonny babies. Delivery at the canteen, distribution allocated to the boys usually 4 of us. Can you see this young tearaway head down both hands on the crate of milk pushing like a bat out of hell along the concrete flooring, the noise must have been something else. How could a small, shy boy cause a racket like that. It was sure a good drink though - and lets remember to save our cardboard tops. The things we made out of them milk tops. Joe.
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spelling, which seems to have left me these days 
must be an age thing ? I also liked the games, swimming etc...so come on guys, lets get this thing rolling 
No surprises there !!!! 
I liked English, mainly because the teacher Miss Proctor was always nice to me, and Art. I hated Maths, and still do; French, because the teacher Miss Hood was slightly off her rocker. Loved RE because I liked the teacher Mrs. Oswald. I also liked one of the only male teachers in the school, Mr. Smith. Cant remember what he taught though. We were really badly behaved in his class and one day we all decided to embarrass him by staring at his crotch and he lost the plot completely and turned a bright red. It couldnt have been easy teaching a load of pre-pubescent girls !!!! ;D 
i didn't excel in anything in school only dreaming and playing soccer ;D i used to stick up for the underdog in the school yard other wise i was very quite tommy ox