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School Dinners
"I remember the Orwell Place
School circa 1950.
The School Dinners were ghastly,
particularly the potatos
. They
arrived in big aluminum churns and the smell that permeated the whole
building
,
I can only describe
as being
like boiled rotten cabbage
. -
ugh!.
"
School Writing
"
About
that time
,
the class were all given a ballpoint
pen
(Biro)
,
but Miss
Smart
(always the traditionalist) would not let
us use it because she said it would lead to sloppy and bad handwriting.
I liked writing on the slate
boards with the slate pencils
.
Mistakes
were easily rubbed out
.
Later,
we graduated to
pen and ink
,
using the inkwell on the desk.
"
Rationing
"
Of
course
,
it was just after the end of the Second
World War and rationing was in full force
.
I can remember not seeing a banana till I was about seven
years old -
but there were few overweight children."
George Ritchie, North Gyle, Edinburgh:
September 1, 2014
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