feemcg Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 All my daughters have attended one of the local primary schools, which happens to be the school I attended, across the road from my house. They are having 80th birthday celebrations - an exhibition of old school photos, registers etc. and a 'production' of Joseph. We went over the road tonight to see all the photos and there's mummy and elder daughters pics up on the walls, much to wee Anna's amusement . Also my entry into the school register in 1970 - with the same address I live at now (my beloved dad left me the house when he died 3 years ago ). I wonder how many people live in the same house they grew up in? The exhibition was in the gym hall which still has the original floor that my grandpa helped to lay as an apprentice joiner when he was 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Couperman Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 The primary school I attended has just had it's 130th. When i was there 25 years ago we had a look through all the old school logs! Very interesting! No excuse for not going to school in those days! Until recently you could see where the kids used to sharpen their slates, and also the quickest way out of school (the most worn piece of sandstone) The most interesting part of the log as I remember it was a young boy who was caned in 1899 for playing truent to see General Tom Thumb whoever he was! Kev. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Egluntyne Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 The most interesting part of the log as I remember it was a young boy who was caned in 1899 for playing truent to see General Tom Thumb whoever he was! Kev. He was an American Circus midget "discovered" by Phineas T Barnum and hawked about Europe at the end of the 19th Century. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lesley Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 How lovely to live in the same house Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowy Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 That's amazing Fee - and how lovely to have that family history to show the children! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AmandaR Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 That's lovely. I too live in the same house that I grew up in, passed onto me when my Dad passed away (at home) 10 years ago. Both of my children were born in this house and they both go to the same primary school that I went to! There are even some members of staff at the school that are still there from when I was attending school My neighbours either side have been in their houses since year dot and have known my grandparents, parents, watched myself and my brother grow up and now my two children grow up. I couldn't bear to leave here and can see it being passed onto my children in the future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 What lovely stories Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 My father still lives in the house that he was born in. My grandparents bought it, brand new, back in 1932, and my father was born in the back bedroom in 1933. He moved out when he and my mother married, but moved back in with my grandmother when his father died, 2 months after I was born. My parents still live there, the last of the original 'Belmont Gang', after their next door neighbour died last year, aged 97. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jules. Posted November 21, 2007 Share Posted November 21, 2007 I have no desire now to move house, & I would find it such a wrench if I did since Ethan was born here. Our work on the house starts soon, with the new combi boiler being the first job. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
