A trip down memory lane around Manchester....

[crazyg]

What about the flyby from the police helicopter most evenings? Does that not count?

See it most nights flying around Brinny, less than a mile away from where I live. I don't even look out of the window now.
If the Antonov 225 came in - I'd be at the airport, just like last time. It makes the A380 (aka Big Bugger) look tiny.

 

[LongsightM13]

I went to Bishop Bilsborrow, up until my second last year in primary school, when we moved to Longsight and I ended up at St Robert's on Hamilton Road. Can't remember anything of my time at BB, only that (I think) a Mrs Quayle was headmistress there at that time (early 1970s). I lived on Claremont Road, near the junction with Broadfield Rd.

Only the very, very best people went to St Roberts in Longsight, pal

 

[jimharri]

Only the very, very best people went to St Roberts in Longsight, pal

Obviously. Same as St Greg's in Ardwick.

 

[LongsightM13]

Obviously. Same as St Greg's in Ardwick.

Oh. And you were doing so well…

 

[jimharri]

Oh. And you were doing so well…

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Ah well; that hovel was for the lesser folk who failed their 11 plus, eh?

;-)

 

[LongsightM13]

Ah well; that hovel was for the lesser folk who failed their 11 plus, eh?

;-)

No 11-plus when I went to school, Gramps
Though tbf, yes to the general point…

 

[jimharri]

No 11-plus when I went to school, Gramps
Though tbf, yes to the general point…

"Gramps"?

Where's that ban button?

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Obviously. Same as St Greg's in Ardwick.

Only the very best went to both Bilsborrow and Greg's.

 

[jimharri]

Only the very best went to both Bilsborrow and Greg's.

Goes without saying.



Glad you said it, though!

 

[jimharri]

Only the very best went to both Bilsborrow and Greg's.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

Wow, you've still got the tie! Good lad.

 

[jimharri]

Wow, you've still got the tie! Good lad.

It's all I do have from that time (mid-late seventies). Remember those maroon jackets, and the grey jumper with the maroon and yellow band on the v neck?

 

[Marklr]

My high school.....Yew Tree High in Wythenshawe. It went on to become Arden college and then got demolished. Fcking terrible school...but good memories!
I used to live on the estate just behind the school so it was dead easy to wag it.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

It's all I do have from that time (mid-late seventies). Remember those maroon jackets, and the grey jumper with the maroon and yellow band on the v neck?

Loved that uniform, especially the jacket and tie (although not the briefcase my mum sent me off to school with when I first started). I'm not on Facebook myself but there is a page on there dedicated to Greg's with some familiar names and photos from the 70s. I started in '76 myself.

 

[Paladin]

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My high school.....Yew Tree High in Wythenshawe. It went on to become Arden college and then got demolished. Fcking terrible school...but good memories!
I used to live on the estate just behind the school so it was dead easy to wag it.

My dad taught there.

 

[BertTrautmann'sParachute]

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My high school.....Yew Tree High in Wythenshawe. It went on to become Arden college and then got demolished. Fcking terrible school...but good memories!
I used to live on the estate just behind the school so it was dead easy to wag it.

A lot of my friends went there in the 70s. Fucking rum place that was.

 

[Marklr]

My dad taught there.

What years?

 

[Marklr]

A lot of my friends went there in the 70s. Fucking rum place that was.

It was. Brutal.

 

[Paladin]

What years?

Sixties and seventies. He also taught at Sharston and South Wythenshawe when they all merged. He taught RE.

 

[Marklr]

Sixties and seventies. He also taught at Sharston and South Wythenshawe when they all merged. He taught RE.

My RE classes at Yew Tree were between 1978 - 80. I can only remember one RE teacher...some oldish guy with yellow hair?