Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
I'd just like to know when the school changed from being the Higher Grade to Stevenston High? I was probably there at the time but I'm bu***red if I can remember! Is this what they call a 'senior moment' ?
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
I don't know when it changed from Higher Grade to Stevenston High but I have in my hand and Intermediate Certificate dated 1915 saying my Mother completed the certificate at Stevenston Higher Grade Public School.
Can someone tell me where that was. As I have told Hugh, I only went through Stevenston on the bus.
Netta
Can someone tell me where that was. As I have told Hugh, I only went through Stevenston on the bus.
Netta
- morag
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 11337
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:29 am
- Location: Stevenston. now in S. Cal
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
The Higher Grade was down New street. It was always referred to as the higher grade while I lived in Stevenston, (up to the early 70's)not that means the name hadn't been changed!
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S.Lewis
C.S.Lewis
- Anne
- leading Poster
- Posts: 523
- Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:37 am
- Location: Pretoria South Africa formerly Stevenston
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Might possibly be wrong but I think it became Stevenston High during the early 60's when we were still there
Anne
Anne
- morag
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 11337
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:29 am
- Location: Stevenston. now in S. Cal
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
A side line about the higher grade, the girls, for phys ed, wore big brown knickers! They played across the street from the higher grade in a field back of the old graveyard. Us wee cafflick lassies were appalled, wearing your knickers in public!
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S.Lewis
C.S.Lewis
- Anne
- leading Poster
- Posts: 523
- Joined: Tue Feb 15, 2005 8:37 am
- Location: Pretoria South Africa formerly Stevenston
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Morag, there weren't BIG in those days. Sorry we offened you good wee lassies ha! ha!
Anne
Anne
- morag
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 11337
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:29 am
- Location: Stevenston. now in S. Cal
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Oh, they were big big, Anne, frae the waist tae the mid thigh , and baggy, to boot!:lol:
but I think I was secretly in awe of the lassies 'brass' to do that!
but I think I was secretly in awe of the lassies 'brass' to do that!
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S.Lewis
C.S.Lewis
- John Donnelly
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 2955
- Joined: Mon Mar 05, 2007 7:31 pm
- Location: The Netherlands
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Morag,
I think that your wee statement, that is always at the foot of your posts, is not entirely in keeping with your views here.
JD.
Has that wee statement got some kind of name?
I think that your wee statement, that is always at the foot of your posts, is not entirely in keeping with your views here.
JD.
Has that wee statement got some kind of name?
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Being one of those lassies, I can tell you first hand that we were more appalled, and embarassed than anyone! LOL. I wonder who it was that decided what we should wear for gym! Anyway Morag, we all were about ready to die from embarassement when the boys from the science class, /woodwork class would look out the window and watch us in the playground........don't remember what we were doing out there....basket ball...maybe.morag wrote:A side line about the higher grade, the girls, for phys ed, wore big brown knickers! They played across the street from the higher grade in a field back of the old graveyard. Us wee cafflick lassies were appalled, wearing your knickers in public!
Betty
- morag
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 11337
- Joined: Thu Jan 06, 2005 12:29 am
- Location: Stevenston. now in S. Cal
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Oh, the indignity of it all! We thought you were all dead brave!
J.D....no way those would be considered 'lingerie'!
"You don't have a Soul. You are a Soul. You have a body."
C.S.Lewis
C.S.Lewis
- little plum
- Mega Heid Poster
- Posts: 3360
- Joined: Tue Mar 18, 2008 12:51 am
Re: Higher Grade - Stevenston High
I think you will find they are both one of the same depending on who is making the quote, Stevenston Higher Grade as far as I'm concerned was shortened to the "Higher Grade" without any official change. The Tech and Woodwork classrooms did have a panaramic view of the basketball court. And when the girls were playing netball in their brown knickers, not as long as some would suggest, the boys in the tech/woodwork classes would have a bit of fun letting the girls know they are being watched. The elastic in them was better than any internet firewall.
The Higher grade in it's final demise.
B.DARG might have a photo of the school in all it's glory.
The Higher grade in it's final demise.
B.DARG might have a photo of the school in all it's glory.
------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off - Abe Lemons
The trouble with retirement is that you never get a day off - Abe Lemons
Re: Higher Grade / Stevenston High ???
Only picture of Higher Grade I have: