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Please e-mail
Malmesbury Memories
with all your memories of doing time in any of Malmesbury's Schools and maybe let us know how your doing now.
Get in touch with old friends here and remind us of old teachers and things you used to get up to with that hastily forged, on the back of the bus, note !
Which house were you in ? Who was your favourite teacher ?
Did you marry someone you spent all that time with down the bottom of the school playing field, or was it their best friend ?
Do you remember Fred the Caretaker ? or the Dinner Ladies ?
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I remember leaving school early one Friday with my best friend Ginnie to hitch hike to Southampton in order to go to the Isle of White Pop Festival!
Lin Packham (Linda Webb)
LPhillips@Maritz.Co.Uk
Linnie & Ginnie
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During the time I went to Bremilham I lived at Lea with many other ex-pupil,
Lynne Catley, Linda Ratcliffe, Sharon Whale, Barbara Neville to name but a
few.
During the winter months we used to hope and pray that the school bus would
be later than 8.50am so that we could go back home and not attend, this
happened very rarely, but fun when it did!
My favourite teacher had to be 'Scan', my form teacher for most of my later
years at Bremilham. My first year there it was not comprehensive and I was
in 'Holyrood' house.
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Mike Scanlon
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Mr Thompson was also one of my form teachers and I am still in possession of
a letter he wrote to my mother stating that I had been absent from school
for quite a while, did she know? This was when I was petrified of taking my
oral english test!
Some of the pupils I remember who were in my form (Form 5B) are:
Pam Lawford, Elizabeth Evans, Pete Ody, Paul Neal, Lester Foxall,
Garry Avis,
John Pritchard, Michael Rawlings, Michael Hutchins, Shirley Lane, Amanda
Irvine, Judith Brind (for the 1st year), Danny Bailey, Robert Evans.
According to my Spring 1975 school report there were 38 pupils in my class
at that time, if only I could remember all of their names, perphaps someone
out there can!!
Bye for now, I will continue to visit this site, what a good idea, thank
you.
Mandy
Johns (nee Nash)
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Elmer's Flight by Douglas Mitchell
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After reading your article about our famous flyer Elmer the monk, I thought that I might add a little local history about this famous flight which those of us who have lived here a few years will be well acquainted with, but newer residents may not know about. Well, as you know when Elmer made his flight from the highest point of the Abbey, which had a spire higher than that of Salisbury Cathedral, he landed in a small street called Oliver's Lane and on impact did break his legs, and up until recently on either side of Oliver's Lane were two shops, one was BOOTS and the other was KNEES and apparently this was in recognition of that famous flight, because on impact his boots went one way and his knees went the other.
This is true. D.M. |
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Malmesbury School 1962 to 1967
Dear Malmesbury Memories,
I really enjoyed looking at Malmesbury again on your site, it's been 33 years since I was
there it has not changed very much. I am hoping to go home next year if things work our for me, I have a lot of family in Minety.
Did the floods do very much damage?
I have never seen Malmesbury in flood, only the snowdrifts. I liked it in the
winter as we had time off from school as the bus could not get through.
Bye for now
Sonia Charewicz
(nee Humphries)
Australia 09/12/00
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The Cross Hayes Infants School Spot
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Send in your memories, photos, requests for information etc.
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Dave Forward Aged 5
58-61
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Old Pupils
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Mark Newport
1958 - 1961
Born in Malmesbury Hospital in January 1955, I attended Malmesbury Primary School then located in the Cross Hayes, where I was taught by Mrs. Ella Hinder. We lived in Belle Vue, Tetbury Hill Gardens until I left Malmesbury with my family at the age of six and moved to Stratton St. Margaret, Swindon, where some of the trains in 'Train Story' ran past the bottom of our garden. My parents met on the top of Malmesbury Abbey and it was here they were later married. My father used to work as a projectionist in Mr. Mott's Athelstan Cinema. I can remember going to a birthday party of the Rogers Twins, Clive and Bobby. I also remember there was a girl at the primary school called Ingrid who I liked a lot. I have a brother Gerald Newport, sister Jennifer Newport, and my parents are Reg and Pearl Newport. I discovered the malmesbury-memories site whilst trying to find any information on my Great Grandfather Edward Newport, so if anyone can help me there I would be most grateful.
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Belle Vue
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