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Mrs T remembers...
I started school in 1944 and the war ended in 1945. Up near the tennis courts there were air raid shelters. Most homes in Ashgrove at this time had air raid shelters. I would say that most or all of these have since been filled in.
Our desks were made of wood and each had an inkwell. We would dip our pens into the inkwell to write in our copybooks. I had a teacher called Miss Craven who was very strict on neatness. In fact, if a loop (or any part of your writing) went below or above the line in your copy book, she made you put out your hand and she would hit it with the side of a metal sided ruler.
We also wrote on slates and we had a tin with a wet rag in it to rub out our slates. I remember the rags always used to smell!
When I was in Prep 1, we had a teacher called Miss Tunne, and a bell would ring and she would lower a rope down to the ground out of the window and the fairies would tie a tin of lollies to the rope and she would pull it back up! That is a very fond memory!
We had maroon uniforms with a square neck and three box pleats through from the yoke. It was belted at the waist. Girls wore shoes, but most boys wore bare feet.
The whole oval was surrounded by massive wattle trees. I haven't seen wattle trees that big since.
We used to have a pie cart that came to the school at lunch time each day. It would park in the area that is now the teacher's car park. We could buy pie and peas from the pie truck, but there was no tuckshop. We used to be given free milk at school every day.
At 12 midday every day, dynamite would explode in the big rock quarry where the Gap Tavern is now and all the china in the household cupboards at Ashgrove would shake and the windows of the school would rattle.
There were no big shopping centres in Ashgrove and so I would walk to the butcher (where the Ashgrove West bike shop is now) and get the meat for my mother. Then I would get hot chips from the fish and chip shop and they would cost me Threepence. (3 cents) The Drapers (Fabric and Uniform) shop at Ashgrove West was there when I was a young girl.
I started school in 1944 and the war ended in 1945. Up near the tennis courts there were air raid shelters. Most homes in Ashgrove at this time had air raid shelters. I would say that most or all of these have since been filled in.
Our desks were made of wood and each had an inkwell. We would dip our pens into the inkwell to write in our copybooks. I had a teacher called Miss Craven who was very strict on neatness. In fact, if a loop (or any part of your writing) went below or above the line in your copy book, she made you put out your hand and she would hit it with the side of a metal sided ruler.
We also wrote on slates and we had a tin with a wet rag in it to rub out our slates. I remember the rags always used to smell!
When I was in Prep 1, we had a teacher called Miss Tunne, and a bell would ring and she would lower a rope down to the ground out of the window and the fairies would tie a tin of lollies to the rope and she would pull it back up! That is a very fond memory!
We had maroon uniforms with a square neck and three box pleats through from the yoke. It was belted at the waist. Girls wore shoes, but most boys wore bare feet.
The whole oval was surrounded by massive wattle trees. I haven't seen wattle trees that big since.
We used to have a pie cart that came to the school at lunch time each day. It would park in the area that is now the teacher's car park. We could buy pie and peas from the pie truck, but there was no tuckshop. We used to be given free milk at school every day.
At 12 midday every day, dynamite would explode in the big rock quarry where the Gap Tavern is now and all the china in the household cupboards at Ashgrove would shake and the windows of the school would rattle.
There were no big shopping centres in Ashgrove and so I would walk to the butcher (where the Ashgrove West bike shop is now) and get the meat for my mother. Then I would get hot chips from the fish and chip shop and they would cost me Threepence. (3 cents) The Drapers (Fabric and Uniform) shop at Ashgrove West was there when I was a young girl.
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