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Q. Is there anyone else in the village who
could remember coming to school here?
A. Old Sid Evans.
Q. Did you do P.E. and/or dancing?
A. No, no dancing. We had music. I remember one day we had the
inspector there and he tested us on all other subjects, and then
we had to sing a scale. I could never sing, just make a noise.
Presently he put up his hand to his ear like that and said,
‘There’s somebody grunting so lets have it again.’ He ses,
‘It’s you,’ he ses, ‘you can’t sing so don’t try!’
Because although I say it myself there wasn’t a thing that
could catch me out on anything else. Nearly every time when he
came, he used to |
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stand in the front (with a lot like that all
you could do was to stand in front and ask the classes in the
whole room and ask the questions on the subject whether it was
history or geography or anything of the sort) and usually I had
me hand up before he had the question out of his mouth. He would
say, ‘Keep your hand down! Let somebody else answer.
Q. Did you write into books?
A. Yes, we had copy books when we were small and then ordinary
books afterwards.
Q. What did you write with?
A. Pen and ink. There was inkwells in the desks. |