Penny Tray,
1963 doesn't sound right. I remember having 2 teachers at Eglinton - Mrs Skelly & another woman whose name I forget. In Mrs Skelly's class we were in I think a pre-fab building by the fence next to the main road & my last class was round the back of the main building in a classroom sandwiched between 2 others. In other words you had to go through one of the other classroms either side to get in or out of our classroom. I recall telling our teacher in the latter classroom that I would be leaving shortly as we were emigrating to N.Z. & had passage booked on the Southern Cross leaving Southampton on 28.5.1963.
One day in Mrs. Skelly's class we had a student teacher there as well & we had an arts lesson where one of the girls sat up front & we had to draw her - I think it was Susan Farrer but I'm not sure. After we handed in our efforts I was told mine was very artistic & the student teacher was going to take it back to the teachers' college to show her tutors. Never heard anymore about it & my artistic endeavours fizzled out there.
Bob
Eglinton Class Photo - around 1956-60
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Re: Eglinton Class Photo - around 1956-60
Bob, Robert Slessor is still in Queensland, Australia. I can put him in contact with you if you like, NettaBob Bryden wrote:I agree that extreme right hand end of back row looks like me but can't remember when it was taken. I started at Winton School in 1956 when I was 5 but forget when I moved up to Eglinton. So if I started at Winton in 1956
when would I likely have moved to Eglinton? I'm afraid I don't recognise any of the others in the photo. I recognise myself in the Eglinton photo as I look the same as in my first N.Z. class photo.
Names I recall as Eglinton classmates are:- Tom Brookes, Betty Wilson, Anne McKinnon, Susan Farrer, Harvey Smith, Ian McKenzie, Robert Slessor, Moira Kerr, Jean McDougall, Hugo Harper & I think Angie Mills. Can't remember any more. I met up with Tom Brookes & Moira Kerr on my only visit back to Ardrossan in 1974. At that time Tom & his wife were living in either Seton or Winton St. & I met Moira & her husband at a relative of theirs just across from my old home in Churchill Drive. I've sinc e seen Hugo's name mentioned in connection with Winton Rovers - he & I sat next to each other in my last Eglinton class. Also several years ago I had a brief e-mail from Robert Slessor after he'd seen my name mentioned but that contact didn't continue. I seem to recall that at that time he was in Australia. I know Ian McKenzie's been in Victoria, B.C., Canada since 1979 but have lost touch with him too.
It's such a long time ago. After all it was 52 years on the 1st. of this month since we first set foot in N.Z. Originally 5 of us but now just me.
I left Eglinton on 22nd. or 23rd. May 1963 as we left Ardrossan on the first stage of our voyage to N.Z. on 24th. May 1963.
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Re: Eglinton Class Photo - around 1956-60
I had a blether with Harvie Smith on Friday evening about this class photo . He was more than certain that it was taken at the end of term 1961, the class teacher was Mrs/Miss ? Seggie.
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