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| Thread Topic: All Saints' School Stamford Topic Originator: Chris Post Date March 22, 2006 @ 4:45 PM |
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| Chris |
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I attended All Saints and started there when Miss Wharton was the headmistress, prior to Miss Sharpe who arrived during my 2nd year. We had to line in the playground to wash hands in 3 or 4 portable enamel bowls (we all used the same water) before dinner, the school dinners were delivered in big metal containers, we queued up while they were dished out, then we sat at our desks to eat them. I remember the 'Roll of Honour' board with the names of all pupils who had passed the scholarship (11 plus) on it. I passed the scholarship and went on to Stamford High. Kate: Thanks for that contribution Chris. I will also post it on the Stamford Memories Gateway.I wonder where those boards went to? Are they still on display somewhere? |
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| Lynda |
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Does anyone remember the old church rooms in Foundry Road where All Saints' school held the Christmas show. Each year acted out their own 'play' or singing. We would walk up to the hall for our rehearsal many times during early December. I remember the two solid fuel boilers each side of the hall, if you happen to sit near them they were very warm. There was a kitchen at the back and toilets in the entranceway, which were always very cold. In the summer we would do our country dancing on the lawn in Torkington House gardens during the summer fete. Kate: Thanks Lynda. Can anyone remember the Foundry Road churchrooms? (was this the "TinHut"?) |
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| betty |
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I think Kate is right the rooms you are talking about Linda is the Old Tin Hut. I too can remember going to Torkington Street to Doctor Holts garden where we used to hold the Summer Garden Fete. Does anyone remember Mrs Holt's daughter Sally? She always loved it when we were at her house. |
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| christine pattinson |
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Yes Lynda I remember the tin hut in Foundry Rd. and being walked in classes from AllSaints School. I also remember the coke heaters that gave out terrible fumes that made us cough. I attended the school 1947-1951. My maiden name was Painter. A few weeks ago I added a comment on the Tin Hut Foundry Road Stamford site started by Philip Rudkin. |
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| Mike Laughton |
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I lived in Austin Street next door to All Saints' School which was a junior school for girls. Our 6ft garden wall adjoined the school playground. During the mid-1950s when I was about 11-years-old I had a pair of Punch and Judy style glove puppets so Dave Rose and I used to climb on top of the garden shed and give the girls a puppet show over the wall at playtime. Needless to say, the puppet show would continue even after the teacher had rung the bell for playtime to end causing the little girls to giggle. We would then get an admonishment from the teacher along the lines of "Go away you naughty boys - leave the little gels alone!" |
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| jill eljadi |
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My Mum is Miss Brown. Still alive and living in Rutland. She eventually taught all her life and had four girls. She was from a large Stamford family and my father was son of one of Lord Burghley's park game keepers and lived at the Lodges (ex police from Peterborough). My step granny was one of the guides at Burghley house. This Memories Gateway is truly fascinating to me as I remember family tales of all these times as if it were yesterday! Kate: Thanks for those comments Jill. So good to hear you are enjoying the memories - makes me keen to carry on adding the comments and photos. |
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| Phil |
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Jill,About 25 years ago a friend and I were out for a drink in Kensington.We decided to go to the antique fair at Olympia.Although slightly wrecked I noticed a silver pocket watch by Warren of Stamford.I bought it,it was quite expensive,my friend said your mad!!The watch was dated 1852.The next day when inspecting my buy, which I was very pleased with, I found scratched(not engraved) inside the back cover which opens to wind it" Fred Brown Burghley Park".This may have belonged to a great great grandfather of yours as sons used to follow on into their fathers proffesion.To much of a coincidence don't you think? anyway it's still part of my Stamford collection and ticking away happily.Regards Phil. |
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| jill |
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Fantastic story Phil - or could be the watch belonged to .. 'Miss Brown's' uncle i.e. my great uncle, was Fred Brown subsequently q. big property owner in Stamford. His brother,my grandfather was John Brown all from easton I think, living at Roman Bank, T'well rd.with Annie Brown nee Jackson from Greatford. Only problem is, not sure what link was with Burghley Park as that link was more on my father's (Matthews) side. I'm only guessing, but this Fred Brown was born in around 1875-80. |
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| Janet |
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My great grandfather (my mother's mother's father) was a Fred Brown at Burghley. He was born approx 1859 ( so not the owner of the 1852 pocket watch) in South Luffenham, but by 1881 he was a shepherd at Burghley. He eventually became the "home farmer" at Burghley. Family lore says that his uncle (no name given) worked at Burghley in the mid 19th century, and escorted a shipment of prize cattle sold to a rancher in Texas. On his way home, while waiting for a ship for the return journey, he bought a Seth Thomas wall clock, which my sister now has. So he is a Brown with Burghley connection that would fit with 1852. |
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| Janet |
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That didn't come out quite right. My great grand father, Fred Brown, could not have been the one who BOUGHT the watch in 1852. But he could easily be the one who scratched his name on it later. |
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| phil |
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Janet,That's that's what I thought,just because the watch was hallmarked 1852 doesn't mean it was sold then H.Warren would have had a lot of choices in stock,could have been 10 or 20 years later.Or he could have bought it second hand or been given it as a present later in life.It seems as though it was his watch.Regards Phil |
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| Janet |
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Do you by any chance have any pictures of the watch? Would you like pictures of Fred Brown? |
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| Roger Partridge |
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According to Lawrence Tebbutt's book "Stamford Clocks and Watches", Henry Warren was in business in St Mary's St from at least 1857 to 1871, possibly as late as 1909. |
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| Kate |
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Have added the following as they were on a separate listing of schools in Stamford and not being seen as easily. I went to All Saints School for a year or two after transferring from St. George's School in Wharf Road. Miss Jones was our teacher in the senior class, she was excellent at teaching us mental arithmetic. She played the violin and when we had dancing in the playground she played the violin and we danced round the maypole. The playground was a bit small and the toilets were a bit basic. It was an "all girls" school. Miss Sharpe was Headmistress. She used to conduct assembly every morning. Sometimes we used to have a special occasion and it was held in All Saints' Vicarage Garden. Mrs Riley was the middle class teacher. She was the wife of Mr Riley who kept an outfitter's shop in Maiden Lane. I passed my "11 plus" at All Saints'. Chris March 22, 2006 @ 3:08 PM Edit | Delete I was also at All Saints and started there when Miss Wharton was the headmistress, prior to Miss Sharpe who arrived during my 2nd year. We had to line in the playground to wash hands in 3 or 4 portable enamel bowls (we all used the same water) before dinner, the school dinners were delivered in big metal containers, we queued up while they were dished out, then we sat at our desks to eat them. I remember the 'Roll of Honour' board with the names of all pupils who had passed the scholarship (11 plus) on it. I passed the scholarship and went on to Stamford High. Kate: Thanks for that contribution Chris. I will also post it on the Stamford Memories Gateway. margaret November 25, 2006 @ 8:23 AM Edit | Delete I think someone ought to write down these old schools, and be kept , my brother and I used to go to the Priory college on Wharf road , which is now flats and new houses. Kate: Thanks Margaret. Anyone else want to contribute to Priory College? I will make a separate entry to cover for it. betty bradshaw November 9, 2008 @ 1:53 PM Edit | Delete I went to All Saints school where I also passed the scholarship. I can remember Miss Sharpe coming to school on a black sit-up-and-beg bike from Casterton Road. The teachers when I was there (1948-1952) were Miss Woodbridge, Miss Aldrige, Miss Barker and Miss Jones. I remember the dinners as we had lovely new plastic plates and dishes. The teachers were very strict and in those days not very sympathetic. Betty Dianne Matthews November 21, 2011 @ 3:23 PM Edit | Delete Hello Betty I also went to All Saints School and I think it must have been about the same time as you as I had the same teachers. Did you become a teacher? the name seems to ring a bell. Dianne |
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| betty |
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Hello Diane No I did not become a teacher I became a Midwife in Chester. Retired now. If I am right you married Peter Primett and you were three years below me as you were a friend of my brother Colin's I have had a busy year Kate but hopefully I will get back on line. Hi Betty. Hope you and yours are well, nice to hear from you again.K |
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