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All Saints Primary School
Glen Street,
Edinburgh |
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Recollections
1.
Margaret Cooper
Colindale, North
London, England |
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Thank you
to Margaret Cooper who wrote: |
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Gas Mask
"I thought it would be nice to
write a little bit about what it was like going to school in the
early-1940s.
On my first day at All Saints School,
Glen Street, I arrived there with my Mickey Mouse gas mask over my
shoulder, only to find all the other kids had graduated to black
ones. How i hated that pink mask with the wobbly nose and all
the stick I got from the other kids. I did eventually get a
black one but I feel the pink one left me scarred for life. ha
ha."
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Apples
"School was
good sometimes. Boxes of apples would arrive. It was
said they were a gift from Australia. We would line up and we
would all receive three apples each."
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Coupons
"Periodically,
someone would come to school and measure our feet if our toes went
over a certain mark we got extra clothing coupons."
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Margaret Cooper, Colindale, North London, England:
Message posted in EdinPhoto guestbook, June 23, 2011 |
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Recollections
2.
Margaret Cooper
Colindale, North
London, England |
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Thank you
to Margaret Cooper for posting another message in the EdinPhoto guestbook.
Margaret wrote: |
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Former Pupils
"I'm still hoping that I might hear from
someone who attended
All Saints' Primary School at Glen Street, Edinburgh between
1940 and 1944. 1944.
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Teachers
"Teachers I
remember were:
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Miss Forrest
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Miss Finlay
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Miss
Livingstone
- Miss
Lawson (sewing teacher).
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Sewing
"Miss Lawson
would look at my stitches
and say ''Cat's teeth again,
Miss Cooper' I still do cat's teeth!"
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Christmas
"It was
a good School Christmas. Because of
rationing, we would all be asked to take
some sugar, raisins and flour,
and our teachers would make cakes and
toffee for our
Christmas Party. We were all so happy then with so
little"
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Margaret Cooper, Colindale, North London, England:
Message posted in EdinPhoto guestbook, October 24, 2011 |
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Reply to Margaret?
If you'd
like to send a reply to Margaret Cooper,
please email me then I'll pass on your message to her.
Thank you.
Peter Stubbs, Edinburgh, October 31, 2011 |
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Recollections
3.
Jeanette Nisbet
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Thank you
to Jeanette who read Margaret Cooper's comments above and replied: |
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1944-51
"I attended
All Saints' Primary
School from 1944 until I went to Boroughmuir High School in
1951. I was 4 1/2 years old when I
started. at All Saints. My name then was
Jeanette Nisbet.
(I don't know Jeanette's name
now.)
I remember the teacher.
Miss Livingston was headmistress. (I was terrified of her.)
My friends were:
- Hazel
and Norma King (twins)
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Margaret Oliver
- Grace
Inness
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Michael Bain
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Laurence Cowen
- etc..
We all lived on Drumdryan Street."
Jeanette: March 5, 2012
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