Steer
Street School - 1908-1910
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is a picture of Steer Street School, off Spencer Street, taken
about 1908/10. All my mother's brothers and sisters went to
this school and in fact the younger of her brothers was killed
falling off the roof in about 1912. Which of the family is in
the picture I am not sure. |
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More
memories of Steer Street...
I attended the school from about 1946-8, and can remember a few
things about it. Firstly, the school had a Girls and a Boys entrance-
each on either side of the school, so the entrances were in different
roads.
My
mum used to tell me to "come straight home" after school,
but I used to go through the school and exit via the boys' playground,
just in case mum was waiting for me outside the other gate!
During
the war they built a brick air raid shelter in the girls' playground;
it was long and narrow with an entrance/exit at either end. After
the war we would dare each other to dash through it, from one end
to the other; it was full of echoes and dust and we'd scare ourselves
rigid.
One
summer it was very hot and all the tar melted on the road outside.
Us kids would get down on our hands and knees and crawl along the
road, bursting tar bubbles with our fingers (no traffic then) and
getting yelled at when we got home for being covered in tar.
With best wishes, Hazel Redgrave (nee Miller).
PS
I used to live in Fitzclarence Street, it's no longer there now,
and had a best friend, Sheila Grant.
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