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• Re: Barton Grammar School 1955-1962 by Lynda Evans (Member 10214374) on 28-Sep-2007
  We must have been in the same class as I remember those pupils you named along with some others. Kathleen Lait, Christine Goodman, John Lacey, Graham Carlisle, Joy Ellerby, Susan Smith, June Carter plus many faces come to mind but only first names remembered. I have spent the last 30 years in Canada. I am a resident of White Rock on the west coast a few miles north of the US border

• Re: Barton Grammar School 1955-1962 by Dave Field (Member 10212857) on 17-Oct-2007
  Linda Evans? I don't remember your name. I'd trade pictures with you but I don't have any of me at that age. I can try a mental association thing. When Miss Proctor was trying to get us to understand Macbeth, Elsie Wilford was at or near the right rear corner of the classroom. I was at the other side of the room, about two desks down from the back. Can you remember where you where?
  
  Actually I D
  O remember the name Linda Evans, but not the face.
  
  Speaking of Macbeth, I vividly remember John Lacey being disruptive in class one day and Miss Proctor demanding he explain what the play was about - we'd been reading the thing for about six weeks. After a great deal of humming and harring, he replied, "Some fellers 'avin a fight."
  
  Miss Proctor wasn't impressed.
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• Re: Barton Grammar School 1955-1962 by Lynda Evans (Member 10214374) on 23-Oct-2007
  My maiden name was Pugsley back in those days. Yes, I remember John Lacey. He and Sam Bontoft were usually up to no good in class. I presume they went on to great things once out of school. Can't say they were the happiest days of my life. I was painfully shy probably because I was my full height (5'7")at 13 years old, skinny with unruly fair hair! I don't have any pictures of myself, left th
  em behind in England when I emigrated to this neck of the woods. I remember being terrified of Mr Goddard, with good reason as I think he was a sadist. I always remember him slapping class mate, Vivienne,across the head. sorry I can't remember her last name but I think she came from Barrow. All she did was giggle over a french verb "laver" to wash. If he had done that today he would have been charged with assault.
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• Re: Barton Grammar School 1955-1962 by Dave Field (Member 10212857) on 1-Nov-2007
  Hi Linda,
  Don't remember you, but never mind. John Lacey went to work at the Scunthorpe Steel Works as some kind of engineering technician. I went to visit him from Oz some years back, but the relationship sorted of faded away. I think Sam Bontoft may be a fireman in the Humberside area, but I'm not sure. All I can really remember about him was he was swarthy skinned and could make his nose blee
  d by blowing his nose, and did so to get out of classes. Goddard was a swine - his nickname was Goster. I've seen him hit kids too. I confronted him once when I got into a dispute with a horrible French teacher who accused me of talking in class when I wasn't. He tried to punish me by ordering me to write out 200 French verbs. I refused and had to face Goddard over it. Apparently he believed me because I got away with it. But I can still hear that French teacher, a tall, ugly Welshman, saying, "You'll do me 200 verbs, boy."
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• Re: John Stephen Mccarthy by JULIEMCCARTHY (Member 10202730) on 12-Feb-2007
  ABOVE MESSAGE CONTAINS TYPING ERRORS. BELOW IS AN AMENDED VERSION. APOLOGIES FOR ANY DISTRESS CAUSED DUE TO MY TYPING ERROR
  
  The message regarding JOHN STEPHEN MCCARTHY who died in an AIR CRASH in ELMDON AIRPORT BIRMINGHAM ON APRIL 15TH 1951 is very significant to my family. We are trying to trace more information regarding this person who is believed to be my grandfather. JOHN STEPHEN had a br
  other called Dennis and his mothers maiden name was either TRACEY or TRAJEY.
  Are there any other Pilots who were also flying at this base who knew of JOHN STEPHEN MCCARTHY?
  Please either post a message or reply if you have more information Thanks Julie-ann McCarthy
  
  Reply
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• Re: Blairland, it's pronounced Blairland by Reader (Member 10122086) on 16-Oct-2006
  Also http://www.urbanrim.eu

• Re: Blairland, it's pronounced Blairland by Reader (Member 10122086) on 16-Oct-2006
  List price is £7.99. Buy it, read it, sell it to a friend for a fiver. (Might be cool to try the Tesco book site.)

• Re: Blairland, it's pronounced Blairland by Reader (Member 10122086) on 23-Oct-2006
  A copy of 'blrlnd' is available from Hull Central Library. Worth crossing the bridge for.

• Re: People.. by David (Member 10212540) on 9-Sep-2007
  Hello Susie.
  I am from Barton on Humber - born and bred there, but I - unfortunately - live in Hull - across the water on the north bank of the R. Humber. I`d love to live back in Barton, and go there often. The George Hotel has i`m afraid, gone to the dogs. I remember all those quaint little rooms where one could sit and have a quiet pint. Now it`s all one big room, and very loud. The best pubs
  in Barton for a quiet life are The Volunteer Arms, and The Wheatsheaf.
  david
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• Re: People.. by Susie Somerville-Franz (Member 10220310) on 26-Jan-2008
  Hello David,
  Well, it's been a very long time (a few years) since I've been on here. I had to create a new account. It's so good to hear from someone who is fimiliar with Barton. I adored the George Hotel and The Volunteer Pub. I'm sure things have changed - for the better I hope, unfortunately, I'm not so sure it sound as though it has. I left my heart in England. My memories of England are
  so great and important to me.
  My Aunti Irene owned the beauty shop on the Market Place. My cousin Karen McKay is her daughter.
  
  My friend Colin Blanchard and I and his friend Colin used to go to the little tea shop down the corner. I have pictures still-and a poem that Colin B. wrote. Do you know is he still around or what has beccome of him?
  There was also a Conservative Club, I believe that's what it was called. Is that still there? My Uncle used to take us there sometimes. I haven't seen my relatives since the bridge was being built in Hull. I would love to visit again-and hope to in the next couple years. Now, i live in St. Thomas, USVI - just moved here and want to show my husband where I spent so much of my time.
  Okay, I know that's alot of information - but I want to reply to your message and if you grew up there we may know people in common.
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• Re: People.. by Colin Blanchard (Member 10222866) on 11-Mar-2008
  Well Susie - here I am! I don't know what happened to the (23?) cents and red hair slide, or to the years that have passed, but I'm still around and (doing OK I think) living in SW Scotland with my wife Heather who is an artist and I'm (still!) working as a University Lecturer in North Cumbria. I do hope you check this website and we can get in touch again. You sound like you're having a nostalgia
  attack and I must say my heart gave a leap when I came accross this message thing by accident. The www is truly amazing - or perhaps there's something else going on here? So really hope to hear from you soon. Colin Blanchard.
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• Re: Tina Peace by Nikki Reynolds (Member 10178252) on 24-Feb-2006
  Yes I saw Tina Peace two evenings ago, she has a daughter who is friends with my daughter.

• Re: barton locals web site by terry hoodless (Member 10073202) on 2-Feb-2004
  always interested in contacting old school mates
  from our final year of 1956 and some of our neighbours when we lived in butts road in my primery school years

• Re: THE WINDLE FAMILY by Adele (Member 10168290) on 6-Nov-2005
  Hi, Ralph and Pauline Windle are my uncle and aunt, and they still live at 26 Tofts Road. Hope this is of help, Adele

• Re: THE WINDLE FAMILY by BobDowne (Member 10111719) on 18-Dec-2006
  Hi, can you please provide me with an email adress to contact you on if possible. Thank you.

• Re: hello to old friends by lesley tynan (Member 10110498) on 16-Nov-2003
  Would like to contact Linda Sanderson and daughter Paula who lived in Bayswater in 1991. and moved to Nile Place, Beechboro, I think? Do you remember Lesley, David (aged 2) and Caroline(aged 3)on holiday from Ireland.We met at mother and toddler group. Would love to get in touch as I will be in Perth on the 8th December 2003 for 3 weeks. Please email me at lesleyatlynn@hotmail.com if this is you!
  Write soon as I leave Ireland on the 26th Nov.
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• Re: Help Us Get Barton On The Broadband Map! by Paul Gibson (Member 10015451) on 14-Jul-2003
  i have heard that it will be available from 20th august 2003

• Re: Old Bartonian by Tracy King (Member 10219558) on 13-Jan-2008
  Hi Carole, my name is Tracy King (nee Couchman) my uncle is Harry Couchman. And my mother was Ann Turner is was also at BG at the same time as my uncle. Did you know her. I will forward your message onto my uncle. Regards Tracy