Comments on: Chambersbury School memories from the 1970′s

By: Rose Maslen

Rose Maslen — Wed, 26 May 2010 17:31:37 +0000

I’ve just found your site and it brought back memories.
No, Mr. Rees and I never did “have a bit of a thing going”(!) but we loved taking the annual field trip to the Brecon Beacons. I remember the year we were snowed in and slid down the field on the tin trays from the kitchen…

I still meet once a year with some of the staff I taught with although I left in 1990.
I now live in Somerset and am great friends with Mrs. Davison, who lives in Derbyshire. I shall tell her about your site when I visit her next month.
Mrs. Twelftree taught in the Infant Department, by the way.

By: sue

sue — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:51:30 +0000

Thanks Rob, good to hear from you. Yes I remember the “party line” phone arrangement well but not exactly how it worked – Mark used to leave the phone off the hook by mistake sometimes and we’d pick it up and be able to hear the goings on in your house (very voyeuristic!!) Dad would have to run up the road to let you know to replace the receiver so we could make a call.

I also remember your cat (Sooty?) sitting on our bay windowsill outside – causing our dog to knock both phone and Dad’s painstakingly made model ship flying in an effort to jump through the window after him. Happy memories!

By: Rob Taylor

Rob Taylor — Mon, 01 Oct 2007 10:08:59 +0000

Sue, oddly enough I mentioned to somebody only yesterday about the strange phone arrangement we had at our respective houses (245) and yours (239 I think). we both had the same surname – Taylor – although we have never been related and for reasons never explained we seemed to share the same phone line. If we wanted to make a call we lifted the receiver and pressed a button, likewise the same for youselves. In practice how did this work if we received a call for Mr Taylor – was it for my dad or your dad! What did we do press another button or run down the street! This seems such a bizarre arrangement surely it can’t be true!

As for green sofas at school I remember none of it. Apparatus yes, and the strange climbing frame with the big drop definately yes! You have such extraordinary memories!

By: una

una — Sat, 29 Sep 2007 14:10:53 +0000

hi sue,
well what can i say fancy deaming about ashley edwards and bruce cooper (i can think of a lot better to dream about)hahaha. what more can i say but i do remember after reading this a couple off times most if not all the names you have mentioned. i did get intouch with lisa hammond and hopefully we are meeting up soon,so i will tell her to have a look at your web pages. also read about your page about hemel in the 60′s 70′s,my goodness what a memory. it was nice to remember the old hemel.
going bsck to the infant playground do you remeber at the top off it was a load of logs cut up that you could jump from one to the other,well sort off i think i fell off them more then jumping on them. also remeber climbing on the frame and singing mud songs “tiger feet” with claire batton and some one else who i can not remember. i remeber in the play which i think was the carnival of the animals i think, i was the lady womble madam sho-lay? (not sure on the spelling off that).i had to dance with louise saddler who i think was a tortoise?. and yes i think mr rees and mrs malsen had a thing for each other. if i can think off anything else then i will email some more.
love una x
ps: i always thought that robert poyser’s name was robert poison. oh well no i know.haha