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For INFANT school photographs before 1970 click here
For PRIMARY school photographs from 1970 click here
My father, Michael McCulloch, was born in 1945 and would have attended Lenton Junior School during the early 1950s.
Looking through the school photographs I have tried to spot him in some of the class photographs from this era but failed to find him. If anyone was at school with my father and remembers him perhaps they could double check the photographs and let me know if they can find him.
Peter Swallow - England
I left Lenton Junior School in 1959 and should have gone to Margaret Glen-Bott, however my family moved from Dunlop Avenue to Lincolnshire in that year and I attended a grammar school in Grantham instead. I only have good memories of being at school in Lenton, everyone got on well together and there was no bullying or disciplinary problems so prevalent in schools today.
Something I do remember about my primary school education quite clearly is the emphasis placed on handwriting using a steel-nibbed pen loaded with ink by dipping it in an inkwell. We were taught to form letters using Marion Richardson writing patterns - these were printed on cards which we copied. Marion Richardson writing patterns were quite influential at the time and I believe they were still used in schools until the 1980s. The Senrab Street School in Stepney, east London was renamed Marion Richardson Primary School in her memory. By a strange coincidence my father, Geoffrey Swallow, began his teaching career in 1937 at the Senrab Street School.
Barbara Sinclair (Nee Shelton) - England
At the outset of the Second World War I had reached the age of 6 1/2 years and my family lived on Park Street Lenton.
During the war I remember going to Lenton Primary School and if there was an air raid because there was not enough shelters at the school some of us used to have to run home and I was one of them.
During one of these raids I was on my way home with shrapnel from the anti-aircraft guns falling down around me when a bomb landed on the church but did not explode and another landed where Clements Piano warehouse was. It was believed the Germans were after the Ordnance factory or the Power Station.
Other memories of the war were of the rationing in particular the sweets ration, my mother used to only get our sweet ration once a month, and during this time when we had the sweet we would gain extra friends!
Another memory of the war was the National Food Restaurant in the church hall on Church Street, where I used to go and get two puddings instead of school dinners. This was not supposed to be allowed as you were only supposed to get one but we somehow got around the rules.
Tony Ashford - England
I'm trying to find out what became of Mr. Cook of Lenton Junior School. He was there in the mid 1950s.
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