Eventually we would arrive at Secombe Ferry where there was a white funnel topped with black and full of holes. He was a carpenter and worked at Harland and Wolfe, the ship builders in Belfast. They were fairly light in weight, but harsh to the hands. Birkenhead on Wirral Memories, a website that displays pictures and photographs of Birkenhead and the Wirral, past and present. The Birkenhead Park School. This story has been placed in the following categories. The Co-op drapery shop was in Grange Road, selling wool, clothes towels and even bicycles. This is a list of all the school photo albums available in the Facebook group "Merseyside School Days".Click or tap on the name of a school to view the album within Facebook. This meeting will be virtual. Visits to the Children’s Hospital on Woodchurch Road are recalled when seeing small blue medicine bottles. The market was a busy place, especially on Saturdays, with characters like Eli who sold crockery and displayed plates and saucers by letting them slide down his arm. I remember having to take a very scrawny unwell baby bird to the shop for advice as to what to do with it. We painted the walls with green coloured “Wallpermura”, a new form of distemper, which most probably was the forerunner of emulsion paint we have today. It was very simple. The coalman used them to deliver coal into the coal shed in the yard. I loved the bus conductor’s outfit I had at Christmas complete with ticket punch and peaked hat, and cherished the green metal yacht which I had for a birthday with its two white sails, which I sailed in the boating lake at New Brighton, or in the lake in Birkenhead Park. The tree must be visible just below, not on, the knot. Bombed houses were flattened into piles of rubble, or left standing with floors and walls precariously balanced. From time to time we practised wearing them in case we had to wear them for real. The views expressed are theirs and unless specifically stated are not The house was rented, and Mr. Bolton, the landlord, came regularly to collect the rent, and to do any running repairs, like replacing, or fixing the roof slates. He wore a railway uniform. The throb of aeroplane engines droned on for what seemed like hours, and the guns pounded the air as bombs whistled towards the ground. I never took a letter from her home, as some of the other children did. In the cellar was the large tin bath which we used to have baths, the hot water coming from the boiler. Park High Grammar School for Girls (formerly Birkenhead Girls Secondary School) Date: 1952-1964 Held by: The National Archives, Kew: Former reference in its original department: School No: 454/4003: Legal status: Public Record(s) Closure status: Open Document, Open Description Access conditions: As my father was an Orangeman and a Protestant I was not encouraged to find out about them. My father was working away from home. The bulb wattage was always low to save money. Please do not drop off or pick your child at the school gates. Smoke, steam and noise filled the air. The headmaster was Mr.Dickens. A flask was used for carrying hot tea. These were wrapped up in white tissue like paper, which I used to trace pictures as it was so transparent. Below the speaker two doors revealed the storage for the records. We allowed them to fly around the room but it always was a problem trying to return them to their cage. They were fed with Spratts Budgerigar Mixture which we bought from a pet shop in Borough Road. I was not very happy, though my mother was there to comfort me. They had matching gold coloured frames and hung down from the picture rail on cord. Usually the air raids were at night, but there was double British Summer Time in operation which meant that night time was later and people could work longer daylight hours. Along Grange Road the shops remained open as did the cinemas (or Picture Houses) in the town. The playground for the Juniors was on the top of the building, with a panoramic view of the park and the docks and a covered area in case it rained. We went to a church and came back to 4 Vanburgh Road for eats. I can remember reading to her from a book, but she was not very impressed. We went to the Village school, and I can remember being a shepherd in a canvas sacking dress in a nativity play. If it was hot my father made head protection from handkerchiefs knotted at the corners and put on our heads. Get directions, reviews and information for Friends of High School Park in Elkins Park, PA. Friends of High School Park 7910 Montgomery Ave Elkins Park PA 19027. He spoke in quite good English about the Germans and where he came from. On occasion we were sent home from school carrying our gas masks to see how quickly we could get there. I went to them all, even though the Queens was known as “The Flea Pit”. It was a “Federal”. Jackie was doing his Home Guard duties and my mother, brother George and I were on our own. Autowirral.co.uk - The Northwest's Biggest forum of Motoring Enthusiasts. I do remember bluebells in a glass vase, but they wilted and died so quickly but the bulbous green seed heads fascinated me. I’ve recently read some of the postings of my dear home town Birkenhead (pronounced Berk – In – Hed); in my personal view they do not appreciate the full ****-ness of which I call home. That’s another story to be told later. There was a war. I had measles and was kept in bed in a darkened room. There was a distinct rubber smell, and the air was forced out at the sides. I clearly remember going to the Liverpool Eye Hospital and seeing a Mr.Gorst who placed a patch over my right eye to improve the sight and insisted that I wore glasses. We as children remembered it as “The Daft School”. Park High School is known for its quality of education, its exceptional faculty, and its 21st century facility. Julia Millar was born 22nd July 1902 in Leeds and my father was born in Belfast on 18th November 1894. We waved and cheered as they passed us by. Caryl Levin & the Melrose Park Neighborhood Association. Just down the road he built his own bungalow called “Sans Souci”. Mrs. Rogerson was my mother’s best and closest friend and she lived with her daughter Olive around the corner in Claughton Road. Haircuts by Mr. Smith in his shop near to Exmouth Street was performed by hand clippers and could be painful. We went by boat from Liverpool, either from Princes Dock, or from the Pier Head Landing Stage, and sailed overnight. It was about this time that another incident occurred which I saw. 1959. I used to do some knitting at school, as well as weaving. I remember going to the wedding of my cousin Maggie in Liverpool. Down the cellar steps on the right was the gas meter which supplied the means of lighting. Birkenhead Park School is a co - educational 11 16 secondary school with academy status located in Birkenhead on the Wirral Peninsula in England. At night the smoke screen vehicles pumped smoke into the air to try and confuse the position for the bombers to bomb their targets. On the other side of John Street was the Co-op Greengrocery, a public house, Co-op meat shop, Co-op Dairy, and Co-op Bread shop, and facing them was John Street School, which had a spooky dark small entrance. My father chose his cheese from here. I never saw him giving back money!! Olive, Mrs.Rogerson’s daughter, has often recounted the occasion that one day in the pram I just yelled and yelled, until her mother bought a dummy and stuck it in my mouth. Another sound like the regular whoosh of a steam locomotive starting was made by bombs attached to parachutes as they glided to earth. Park High SchoolGB Alumni.NET enables people to connect using messages, photos, discussion boards, wiki pages, and maps. It was kept in a stout cardboard container with a shoulder strap. There was a tremendous thud then silence. Children will leave Park High School with the skills, confidence and drive to achieve their future aspirations and to make a lasting contribution to the communities in which they live. HistoryofPHS_20170623092746_00001.jpg. Rosey Brooker sucked her thumb and Johnny James was slightly mentally handicapped. Records included Gracie field singing “Our Avenue”, George Elliott ( The Chocolate Coloured C**n) “ In my old Kentucky Home”, “Wonderful Amy” (about Amy Johnson, the aviator), Enrico Caruso singing, and Nursery Rhymes — “Mary, Mary ,quite contrary”. High School Pages Liked by This Page North Harbour Blue Light Swerve City Lead Scholarships Recent Post by Page Birkenhead College December 6, 2020 at 12:31 PM It's our final newsletter of the year! Warm olive oil was used for earaches, and peroxide for cleaning waxy ears. * 587 * images to date Fri 15th January 2021 9:17 am GMT www.wirralmemories.co.uk I do remember a dark maroon coloured pram clearly and having a flash recall of being in it as a small child with the hood up protecting me from the rain. Life went back to normal and I went to the Junior School at Cole Street. There was a large metal framed mangle with wooden rollers which I loved to turn by the handle on the side, whilst the wooden roller’s pressure was controlled by a wheel on the top, and the water from the wet clothes oozed out and dribbled into a basin below. My earliest memories are inevitably confused with the passage of time. Reconnect with friends from Buena Park High School, find reunions, view yearbook photos and more. The nurses had long white headresses and dark blue aprons. I had never seen building construction on this scale before using brick and concrete. The front room was for visitors, or when my relatives came. We were lucky as my mother came along as a helper, unlike many other children who didn’t have that privilege. Birkenhead School is an independent, academically-selective, co-educational school located in Oxton, Wirral in North West England. Home; Birkenhead Park School; Birkenhead Park School. I had my first remembered car ride. public. I had my mother’s special fountain pen which was filled with Stephens Blue Ink for the examination, to bring me luck. Licquorice pipes with their glowing pretend red ends, and laces were always a treat. If we had a cold Mrs Rogers made a concoction of something called “paps”, but I can’t remember the recipe. Why I should remember a blue coloured wooden cart with shafts, and a light blue coloured metal pedal car, I do not know. I can remember a Street Party which was organised to celebrate the Coronation of George VI. Cammell Lairds was a large ship building yard in Birkenhead and I can remember quite clearly the day that the aircraft carrier “Ark Royal” was launched. I cannot remember being sea sick, but remember being kept awake by a very persistent cough on one of the journeys. We usually had a cabin, and the journey, quite often, was very rough. Mon 18th January - all year groups attend school in person. My mother was of Jewish origins, but having married my father, she was ostracised by her parents. Mr Threllfall was white haired and elderly and his wife looked old as well. * 587 * images to date Fri 15th January 2021 9:17 am GMT www.wirralmemories.co.uk I took my scholarship exam at Hemingford Street School for a Grammar School place when I left Cole Street School when I was 11 years old. Sometimes it was a Wallasey Corporation double decker bus in its yellow livery. It seemed very large as it slipped down the slipway into the River Mersey. There was an alley way which served the rear of the houses. I think it sold cakes, but I never saw anybody going in to it. She took us out into area for pond dipping. Apples purchased from the market were used for “Bob Apple Night” and they dangled on strings and suspended from the clothes airer, or “pulley” as we called it, which was above the fire and cooking range in the living room, the object being, to try and eat the apple with your hands behind your back. The promenade was usually full of people walking to, or from New Brighton which had a permanent fair ground, a very large attraction for people on both sides of the Mersey. Was it an isolation hospital, and did I really have diptheria? Park High School also offers students the opportunity to take part in fine arts, or join one of over 80 sports, clubs and organizations, with the mission of developing character, becoming well-rounded citizens, and achieving excellence in their activities, school, and community. It was magic. In between there was Woodsons ( a grocery shop), Waterworths ( greengrocers), Timpsons (shoe shop), Pykes (jewellers), The Maypole (dairy products), St.John’s Church and St.Werburghs (Catholic Church), Woolworths (3d to 6d store), and many more. I remember the opening of the Ritz Cinema at the bottom of Claughton Road and the corner of Conway Street, where there were lots of people waving and cheering. I think it died. Manor Primary School Oxton St Saviours Cofe Aided Primary School Park Family Centre Playgroup Park High School Parkwood Nursery Prenton Methodist Church Playgroup Prenton Pre-School Playgroup Prenton Preparatory We had a check number at the Co-op for the “dividend”, or the “divi” as it was generally known by. I found it very hard work. . One had cherry tree patterns in red on a white background and the other had a similar pattern, but in blue. The railway lines always seemed full with goods wagons with large letters painted on the sides. The ceilings to the wall paper borders were painted with ceiling white. Quite often we went down to Woodside and walked down the floating roadway which was about 100 yards long, past the Lairage , which led to a landing stage for small vessels, like tugs. I think this was a gun emplacement guarding the entrance to the river, but I am not sure. I often played with them as the lived in Claughton Road, just around the corner from us. My Uncle Albert, I vaguely remember, picked us up once in his car and I sat in a seat that pulled out from the back. Change was returned back to the assistant in the same way. Our first project, LOVE LETTERS, invites you to express your love for the park and for your The Head at Cole Street was disappointed as he was certain I would pass with flying colours. The names of the boats I recall were the “Ulster Queen”, the Ulster Prince” and the Ulster “Monarch” The had a black topped red funnel. Behind our house was a large tree in the church grounds which was interesting to watch over the seasons. Originally the Tower Fairground it had a tower like the one that still exists at Blackpool, but I never saw it as it had been removed earlier, though the base building still remained and the name remained. I can remember being met by my mother from school one day to take me to see “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs” but somehow we didn’t see it and my mother was not very happy about it, as I recall.We eventually saw the film at a proper cinema. We could hear them rowing and arguing frequently through the walls of the house. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features It was as much fun in the older trams with the slatted wooden seats and the driver exposed in the front to all the elements . A Spitfire came flying over our house quite noisily and low then it seemed to climb banked and came hurtling towards the ground. They were great to read. loved ones with whom you share the park in hand written letters to be deposited in the mailbox. 1959. I remember going to Prestatyn in North Wales to see him outside an Army Training area. He was the brightest one in the family, having won a free scholarship place to Park High School from Cole Street School at the age of nine. It was polished and the grain of the wood showed through. Chip “butties” always sets the mind racing to these times, and buying pots of tea to drink to quench the thirst of hot sunny days. To encourage the War Effort people were encouraged to grow their own vegetables, and my father obtained a plot near to Tranmere Rovers Football ground just off Borough Road. Lots of sandbags were placed around the school at ground level especially around the windows of the classrooms. 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. I can readily recall singing in the Junior School hall in Cole Street School the hymn “Eternal Father” when the submarine “Thetis” sank on trials in Liverpool Bay. There was a distinct smell of rubble dust and smouldering wood. There was that very easily recognisable sound when the wagons were being shunted and the buffers clanged and clattered into each other in metallic sequence. We were moved to another school, just off Borough Road, for a little while until the bomb had been dismantled. The clothes pegs were large wooden ones. Park High School Birkenhead friends has 1,988 members. Tie: Park High School tie. Park High School, Colne, in Lancashire, England; Park High School (Racine, Wisconsin) Park High School (Cottage Grove, Minnesota) Park High School, Stanmore, in the London Borough of Harrow, London, England; Park High School (Livingston, Montana), in Livingston, Montana, United States Park High School (Birkenhead), one predecessor of Birkenhead Park School, … Park High School Birkenhead friends 有 2,017 位成员。 All ex pupils a Birkenhead Park High School are welcome.. please include the year you started at the school to be approved. Olive was more of a contemporary to Jackie. The War actually arrived in Birkenhead when the air raids started. I learned about double digging, sowing seeds, transplanting and the importance of horse manure, watering and spraying derris powder as an insecticide using a brass hand pump. When the “clay” was removed there was left a hard sculptured shape of the original shape. I remember having a red jacket and being warned not to go near fields because bulls were attracted to red!! I can remember going to the library in Borough Road to see a bust of King George V. Was it a memorial ceremony? I swapped them with friends for other comics like The Dandy and The Beano. Somewhere there is a photo of my mother, father, brother George and me in the rear garden near the Anderson Shelter that they had in the back garden, in our “best clothes”. Playing tunes on combs with tissue paper on one side , as well as mouth organs, and “Gazoos”, (a metal cigar like shape which produced a musical sound by humming down it) were all part of my childhood. Lives in Birkenhead, United Kingdom. Looking back I have flashes of incidents that seem to be readily recalled without any reason or logic. A walk which I remember well was walking from home down Park Avenue and straight down towards the docks, crossing roads like Conway Street, Park Road and Cleveland Street which was part of the grid iron road system with the roads running at right angles to each other. What battles there were. 646. This is a site where "old boys and girls from Park High School, Birkenhead could share stories (good and bad) and re-kindle old friendships (from many years ago or just a few months ago)." It was renamed University Academy Birkenhead in 2011 from the merger of Park High School and Rock Ferry High School and was based at the former Park High School site. The local pond was frozen and sliding and attempts at skating was the order for the day. The birds were always freed. 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. The Big Read Book Leads and Miss Dawes, Assistant Headteacher. I remember having some teeth extracted when I was young at the Schools’ Dentist which was near to the Children’s Hospital. The smell mingled with the aroma of smoked bacon. Contact Us The Birkenhead Park School Park Road South Birkenhead Wirral, Merseyside CH43 4UY Tel: 0151 652 1574 Email: offices@birkenheadparkschool.com My name is Mrs Thomas and I have the privilege of being the Head Teacher of Mersey Park Primary School. URN: 136411. Warm Up on Saturday, February 13th, 2021 at 7 pm where the letters will help us to celebrate Sometimes we went by the electric underground train from Central Station, or Hamilton Square, Birkenhead to James Street Station, or Central Station Liverpool. Finally, in 2004, a start was made with an £11.3 million restoration of the park, with funding support from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the Euro - pean Union, and English Heritage, while the Metropolitan Borough of Wirral Our metal railings were cut down from the front of our house, the windows were taped with sticky paper and two air raid shelters were constructed in the street. Mr.Jones, the manager of the Co-op Grocery Shop on the corner of John Street and Grange Road, quite often served us. You had to test it and was shown how to put it on. Ingredients for rice puddings, tapioca and steamed puddings came from here as well as Fennings Fever Cure, Extract of Malt and tins of syrup and treacle. I went with my mother. All ex pupils a Birkenhead Park High School are welcome.. please include the year you started at the school to be approved. I can remember my father telling me that the NO SMOKING sign in the carriage was used by a well known comedian who called himself Nosmo King, who apparently performed at the Argyle Theatre/Music Hall, Birkenhead, but I think it had ceased as an entertainment venue, by the time I can remember, though my mother talked about it with some affection every time we walked passed it going to the large covered in market, or the General Post Office. 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. Five layers were applied then allowed to dry. I was persuaded to take them back to one of the lakes in the park and let them go. This was the place for the forefinger to enter and control the head movement . Briardale Road was on a slight slope and had Borough Road at the bottom of the road, and Woodchurch Road at the top end. 10 June 2020. This was attached to a cardboard tube which was stuck to it. The winter there was exciting with the snow and the ice. When we had visitors we had the best china brought out. New Brighton was the attraction with its fairground. This was part of the world I knew and took for granted. Did this start me off having an interest in photography, much later in life? The war continued. I can remember my father having to replace the mantles when they became fragile and burnt away, so different from electric light, which I can remember being installed and the magical meter being placed in the front downstairs room and fed with money and the electric light glowed. ( The Smith family took over 2 Coventry Street when we moved in 1943.) At school I learned how to make paper mache puppet heads using plastacine as the basic detailed shape, and covering the “clay” with a layer of small pieces of tissue paper stuck together with flour paste then followed by a layer of small pieces of newspaper. Prenton High School for Girls is an Academy school based on the Wirral. It was very crowded, and we did not go there again. He wore a black coat and an apron around his waist. Sliding down a snow covered hill on an enamel butcher’s tray was fast and exhilarating and in the main uncontrollable and looking back, extremely dangerous. There were two largish bedrooms and a single room, or box room, and a very small room just big enough for a metal enamelled white coloured bath. Please be aware that we operate a one way system so please approach the school via Burnell Gardens and exit via Thistlecroft Gardens. Despite the war life continued and we became the proud possessor of a wireless which used electricity rather than the wet batteries which powered earlier sets like Mrs. Rogerson’s. A list of the Examination boards and the course specifications for Year groups following certified courses is shown by clicking the Year Group below : 1959. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features The other assistants wore white coats. It was a terraced late Edwardian house with the rear facing the trees and grounds of St. Michael’s Church which were bounded by Carlton Road on the other side. This sent the container to the cashier who sat in a raised area in the centre of the shop. Park High School Birkenhead friends has 1,177 members Jump to Sections of this page Accessibility Help Press alt + / to open this menu Facebook Email or Phone Password Forgot account? Pomegranates with their edible pips extracted with a safety pin from the blood red interior was fun. “…Our Park is a beautiful investment in our future. The expected immediate war did not happen, and after a period of time, my mother decided to go back home, leaving my brother and me in the safe hands of Mrs. Rogers. He was very strict. There was Aunt Bella and her husband Uncle Jimmy ( one of my father’s brothers ) with their two children (my cousins) Billie and Maggie who lived at 4 Vanburgh Road, Liverpool. In the event that you consider anything on this page to be in breach of the site's House Rules, please click here. On the opposite corner to the sweet shop was another shop. Birkenhead School is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference, which is a UK-based association of leading independent schools. Instagram, and use the hashtag #FHSPLoveLetters. Report this profile Experience Senior Chef Partie Macdonald Hotels & Resorts Feb 2018 - May 2018 4 months. The lid was quite heavy and when opened it rested on a hinged catch. When the whistle of bombs dropping was heard we went into the cellar and not into the air raid shelter because a street shelter had been hit by a bomb nearby and mother thought we would be safer in the cellar. I went with the family to Borough Road near to the Library and Balls Road East, and saw the tram all lit up in the evening coming down the steep hill and wending its way along Borough Road towards Central Station. Shortly afterwards my brother George became very homesick and so we were collected and re-united at home. The shops opened for business as usual, and people queued for hours if there was something special on offer. I remember having a Sunday School Treat at the park. At strategic points around the town large EWS (emergency water supplies) open tanks were filled with water in case they were needed. 645. Park High School, Birkenhead, services a community in the Wirral that is affected badly by deprivation and unemployment. My Aunt Sadie (my father’s sister) came with them, so it must have been a bit of a squeeze.