Holy Trinity
Primary School
martyx13 - 3 Mar 2010
From Holy Trinity, the use of slates
and a stylus seems to be a memory, posters of ABC and 123 adorning
the walls, up aged wooden stairs to some classes, craft lessons
with tapestry panels and wool, making cement bricks in matchboxes,
milk duty and after school visiting the tuck shop on the corner
on the way home along South Place.Holy Trinity Primary School
1953 - 1955 Headmistress: K.M.W.Taylor Class III teacher: S.Long
Spranglebolt - 3 Mar 2010
Incidentally, Erin Dors taught at Holy
Trinity - and loved it - right up to when it closed and all the
sprogs were moved to St Stephens.
Thanks to Hamptons for this image of the former Trinity School.
martyx13 - 3 Mar 2010
The slates and stylus were in use in
the classroom decorated with the posters, this has been confirmed
by an old school chum.Well, the photo looks very nice but it's
not the way I remember it. However, judging from the angle of
the building against Ward Royal in the background, then the image
shows the 2 storey classroom which formed the right hand corner
of the school when viewed from the entrance gate in the alleyway.
Opposite the end where the car is parked was a toilet block,
without a roof. At the other end of the school yard and close
to the gate was where the milk crates were set and milk duty
done. At the left of the frame and at right angles to the buildings
shown was another building, probably a hall but the classroom
referred to earlier. This completed 3 sides of the school, no
recall of the 4th side. Leaving the school from the side gate
was a side or end wall of a house painted black and I think maybe
some small gardens, turn right after the gate and a short walk
down the alley and on the left is the corner sweet shop. Across
the road is the west end of South Place.
Given the somewhat unusual and rather
fetching architectural style, (ecclesiastical perhaps) I'm disappointed
that the 'planners' allowed for the remodelling of the building
facades and that horrible paint.
Clewer St Stephens
Primary School
The wrought iron gateway to the
school.
The larger gates have been replaced but the pedestrian gate is
almost certainly original
Thamesweb - 27 Apr 2008
I have received the following memories
from Anne Hill who had read our Clewer
St Stephen's School article.
I have enjoyed reading memories of
two ex pupils of St Stephen's School: I too remember it with
fondness. We lived opposite the school in Arthur Road (Gardeners
Cottages, featured elsewhere on your site) I started in Miss
Bennett's Nusery at the age of three and a half, and stayed at
the school until I passed the 11+ to Windsor County Girls' Grammar
School. In Miss Bennett's class we had a rest after lunch on
fold up canvas beds. Our headmistress at that time was Miss Winfield,
and I can remember queuing outside her office (situated halfway
up some stairs) to get the extra clothing coupons for my school
shoes because my feet were larger than average. Mr Bayard was
the teacher for the top boys' class, and I remember being astonished
that the boys could get the cane, but not the girls. Miss Kersley
took the girls' top class and she was a colourful and flamboyant
woman given to wearing purple and orange clothes and a lot of
makeup. She was very strict and was known to throw the blackboard
rubber at anyone who talked or didn't pay attention in class.
I am glad to say that I didn't get that treatment, probably because
I was always in the front row where she seated the pupils in
order of their attainment in the weekly tests. I left the school
top of my class and remember how cross my mother and father were
when I came 20th in the first year at the Grammar School. At
that time all the schools in the Windsor and Ascot area sent
their pupils there if they passed the 11+, and I was in the 'A'
form, but they thought I'd been slacking. I can't remember the
dinner hall, apart from the smell of the steam coming from the
drains outside, because I went home to lunch, but every Friday
we went to St Stephen's Church before lessons started. I can
remember feeling faint when the incense wafted over us, something
I wasn't used to at the Baptist Church I had attended with the
Girls' Life Brigade. In 1947 after the big freeze, the subsequent
flooding meant that all the exam papers were floating down Arthur
Road, and the 11+ exams were delayed. My sister and I thought
it was great fun as there were punts coming along the road throwing
bread and dried goods up to us. We thought it was great because
we got tins of Horlicks and Ovaltine tablets, as good as sweets
to us in times of rationing. It seems sweets play a great part
in my childhood memories, perhaps that's why I've had a lifetime
weight problem! We moved to the castle when I was 11 as my father
was promoted to Castle Turncock which gave him a house in the
castle grounds. I have memories of attending the Staff Balls
at Christmas with my mother and father, watching the Garter Procession
on several occasions and too many memories to record here at
11 pm and time for bed. I have lived in Scotland for the last
35 years, but at 71 years old I remember Windsor with affection.
Thanks to my cousin Chris Bourne for bringing the site to my
attention.
martyx13 - 20 Apr 2010
Of the school excursions I recall, we
boys from St Stephens went swimming to Maidenhead, some of us
taking our certificates (and often our swimming costumes). For
me the landmark outing was to the railway workshops at Swindon,
and the smell of steam engines lingers still!
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