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Title: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 12, 2012, 08:27:31 AM
Hello ALL in Belfast Forum,

I'm just wondering if any folks out there went to Everton Primary which then became Everton Secondary and I believe afterwards it became a Girls only school ?  I'm talking about back in the 50's as I left there in 1957 as a 14yr old and started my first job as a grocery home delivery boy for a grocery store which was up the top end of Woodville Parade.

Some teacher names I recall back then were :  Mr. Cathcart ( I think he was our Religion Teacher ) and Miss Fanny Freeburn ( I think she was our English Teacher ) and Mr. Barnes ( who I know was our Maths Teacher ). Sorry but my wee old grey cells are burning out fast but I also remember when Everton was having some renovations done we were ALL sent up to Wheatfield School.

Anyhow, I would be thrilled if anyone of that era could add anything to this thread :)

Thanks and Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 13, 2012, 09:57:17 PM
I went to Everton School, I left in 1961 i was 15, trying to remember the music teacher's name, Iremember mr Cathcart big man always standing at the door, also remember Mr McCleary he was a good teacher..Liz.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: manitoba on June 14, 2012, 03:18:55 AM
I left Everton in 1956, I was only there for three years transfered from the Henhouse.
Like you I can't remember the teachers but then I didn't really like school. I think I transfered mid term as I remember the first week I was there I had to sit a science test. there were good teachers there. I remember Mr. Barns for math as he tried to drum some learning into me.
Everton wasn't as tough as the henhouse though.
It's too bad I didn't pay more attention as I seemed to have spent the last 40 years trying to catch up.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 14, 2012, 10:03:27 AM
Thanks so very much Liz & Manitoba for sharing in this and yes Mr. Barnes did try really hard Manitoba and seeing my sister was 3 years ahead of me and she had been his star pupil can you imagine his disappointment when I came along and couldn't add 2 and 2 together for quids LOL  :-\

There was a boy there when I was there called Peter and I think his last name was Smith and his Da had the barbers shop in the Ardoyne shopping area near the Forum Picture House ?

OMG do any of you remember the National Health System that use to visit the school    what a balls up was that ?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: nella on June 14, 2012, 01:45:56 PM
Hi Liz17,The music teacher was Miss McCullough. Don"t know if I got the spelling right! Rob,Mr Cathwright taught Maths.I left Everton in 62 . I loved school and had a wee cry the day I left.I remember Miss Hall was the cookery teacher and there was Mr Smith who taught Geography, Mr Redpath,Miss Morrow,Miss Grant who became Mrs Jordon when she married,she was the worst teacher !! Always kept me in after school for one thing or another !I hated gym days having to wear those horrible navy blue knickers out on the playing fields with all the boys having a good geek at us !!!  Mr Keers was the Head Master! Anyone remember his secretary"s name?  Small blond and had a big bust :o  Nella..
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theengineer on June 14, 2012, 09:10:49 PM
Hi Rob and all,
I was at Everton from 1947 until 1952 approx. and left to go to Forthriver. I think my folks new the headmaster at Forthriver and persuaded him to take me on and try and instill a bit of education! It must have worked as I passed the "qualli" from there!
Sadly I dont remember any of my schoolfriends from Everton, but do remember there was a bakery out the back (I think it may have been O'Haras) where we could buy penny baps and hide them up our jumpers.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 14, 2012, 09:37:06 PM
Hello to all x Everton Students, Nella as soon as I logged in remembered miss McCulluck.   All us standing in the side room trying to sing when she was picking out the ones that maybe could sing,  :D  I also remember going to the Forum flicks Sat. morning. good times some of it  ::)  Liz
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 14, 2012, 09:43:54 PM
I've forgot to put in about the navy nickers hated that, we had to make our own purple skirts for second year that was bad,  They would get done for that now..LOL   :o >:D Liz
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 14, 2012, 09:51:23 PM
I got the name wrong nella.Good topic rob  keep it going..
McCLOUGH....
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: jmac on June 14, 2012, 09:56:13 PM
Barnes became the principal of Somerdale Boys Secondary School & Cathcart became the vice principal :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 15, 2012, 06:20:45 AM
Hello nella, jmac and theengineer,

So nice of you ALL to join in this thread and it's wonderful how a collection of memories can twig the ole grey cells into remembering more  ??? .  Nella I sincerely hope I wasn't one of those geeking boys LOL as I was about 5yrs older but I do confess to having a wee look at the girls in my era and the poor things having to wear those navy bloomers  :o .

Now was that Mr. Redpath the one who drove an old MG car ?  Yes theengineer I remember those penny baps as they use to make a real mess under the jumper from the flour that was all over them LOL !  and Nella I do remember Mr. Keers blond secretary   NOT her name but most certainly her BUST   we didn't mind being send to the Head Master's Office purely because of her  ;) .

Thanks jmac it's very interesting to hear that Barnes went on to become Principal at Somerdale, did any of you that knew him know of the tale that he had a steel plate in his head from a serious accident many years back ?

Liz I spent many a Sat morning in the Forum and yes I was one of those [censored] that dropped stink bombs and cause havoc and it was there where I had my first smoke  .. mind you it was a cinnamon stick not a cigarette  :-\

Did any of you guys get the girl's hair that sat in front of you and roll a strand or two onto a match stick then tread the match into the ink well and wait till class ended as they stood up and took the well with them  . I'm sooo sorry girls  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 15, 2012, 11:43:27 AM
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Let's see if this works    Time for a wee laugh at my expense  ;) if this photo gets posted here then it will show my School Photo of 1954 at Wheatfield School during the period we were all sent up there while Everton had some work done to it and the "DORK" five in from the top row is me  ??? LOL

Cheers ALL,

Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 15, 2012, 06:30:08 PM
Hello Rob,  I'm glad one of you has owned up, Great photo very well dressed for the times and not long after the war.Do you remember the bus depot at Ardoyne, I think the bakery was not far from it, Down below the Forum was the chippy we used to go in lunch time to play the duke box :o :o .Liz
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 16, 2012, 05:56:53 AM
Hi Liz,  I only owned up in case someone in here knows me and let's face it I'm far enough away now so I don't think anyone will chase me way down here to smack my head  ;) .  Yes I certainly do remember the bus depot as it was almost right at the top of my street and the bakery I think was O'Hara's where we got penny baps with all that floured topping that made a mess on our uniforms  :o .  There use to be a Newsagents some where close there where I always bought my comics ... it was a wee tiny shop ?

 :-* Thanks for answering Liz

Rob

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 18, 2012, 07:02:25 PM
Hello Rob, Do you remember at Ardoyne the bus conductors had to clock (not sure in or out) and they had to wait a bit before they could go again also the shoe menders, my first pair of slip on shoes where left in, went back to get them they lost them >:D  ended up with lace ups well sick :o  Liz.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 19, 2012, 03:01:29 AM
Hi Liz yes I do remember the conductors hanging around I think they made their runs quicker so they could have a fag while waiting for right time to get back on LOL  :D .  I don't recall the shoe menders but there was a wee barber's shop and the man who ran it was the Da of one of the boys I went to Everton with and he took over from his Da after he retired.  I don't know how long he went on running the barbers ?

Cheers, Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on June 21, 2012, 10:30:19 PM
Just remembered across the road from the shops the fire station and I think the co-op one of my brothers worked there for a while can't think if there was any more feel there might be. Anyway Good night  up in the morning for work at 5am. Liz
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: moteddi on July 21, 2012, 03:23:22 PM
Hi Evertonians! I left in 1967 - Everton was a girls only school by then, and Gladys Richardson was the Headmistress..a.k.a. 'Auntie Glad'! Miss Hall of the grey streak in her hair, not to be messed with..lol..she kicked me out of cookery class for the rest of a term because I refused to handle liver... :o . Ahhh, Mrs Jordan - she taught French and was a dragon, but she also taught History and was a different person - she used to sit on the front desk, put her feet on the seat and just teach history like one big story. Rob I don't know if Mr. Redpath had an MGB, but when I was there he drove a Citroen - very exotic  :)  Also, the rumour going about when I was there was that old Mr. Cathcart, not Mr. Barnes, had a 'plate in his head'..whatever that meant! Does anyone remember Mr. Gibson, who taught English? A lovely gentleman. And oh yes...the navy knickers in first year and the mauve pleated gym skirts from then on. .awful!!  :D
Hi Liz17,The music teacher was Miss McCullough. Don"t know if I got the spelling right! Rob,Mr Cathwright taught Maths.I left Everton in 62 . I loved school and had a wee cry the day I left.I remember Miss Hall was the cookery teacher and there was Mr Smith who taught Geography, Mr Redpath,Miss Morrow,Miss Grant who became Mrs Jordon when she married,she was the worst teacher !! Always kept me in after school for one thing or another !I hated gym days having to wear those horrible navy blue knickers out on the playing fields with all the boys having a good geek at us !!!  Mr Keers was the Head Master! Anyone remember his secretary"s name?  Small blond and had a big bust :o  Nella..
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on July 21, 2012, 07:28:20 PM
hi moteddi
i left everton in 1967 we where in different house names ours was blue for currie
there was red green and yellow.
mrs mc cullough music miss dinnen was typing miss turkington pe miss ferguson maths
i was in 4a what class where you in
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: moteddi on July 21, 2012, 07:56:29 PM
Hello Altoni!   When I left in 1967 I was in sixth form...there were only 7 of us, and I think we were the first class to sit GCEs at Everton. You've reminded me of Miss Turkington and Miss Dinnen, but I can't recall Miss Ferguson. I remember that there were 4 houses, but I can't remember mine.. :( ...doesn't seem like 45 years! :o :)
hi moteddi
i left everton in 1967 we where in different house names ours was blue for currie
there was red green and yellow.
mrs mc cullough music miss dinnen was typing miss turkington pe miss ferguson maths
i was in 4a what class where you in
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on July 21, 2012, 09:13:14 PM
hi moteddi
miss ferguson looked really old as she had white hair now i dont think the sameway
she taught us maths she was strict i did nt worry as that was my best subject
mrs o neill was our form teacher.
when i looked on friends reunited web site for everton
there was only a few that i knew
i have to admit i loved everton
altoni
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on July 21, 2012, 09:22:01 PM
I left in 1969. Miss Ferguson taught maths then she was replaced with Mr Whitton. Mrs Doolan taught french, she drove a green mini. The houses were Curie (blue) Nightingale (red) Austin (green) Victoria (yellow)  Mrs McClean was my form teacher.  Do you remember Mrs Campbell who taught history.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 27, 2012, 07:47:56 AM
Hi Moteddi, Altoni and asp1 so great to see more Evertonians the pity is I left before it became ALL GIRLS as I think I would have enjoyed that  :P  But then again I don't think I would have got away with wearing navy nickers and thoses uniforms  :D

It's lovely to see so many of you join in and share memories of the old school and I thank you ALL for stopping in and Moteddi I was sure it was Mr. Barnes that had that plate as my sister went to Everton as well and he was her Maths teacher and it appears he got wounded in the war and had to have a metal plate put in his head to protect his brain from fragments of bone from the wound ???

Cheers ALL, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on July 27, 2012, 06:46:50 PM
hi everyone
i remember a miss hanna her class room was at the front of the school
miss mc cullough music teacher i met a few years back looked the
same as she did in 1966. honestly i could not believe hair samr colour
and style.
altoni
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on July 27, 2012, 08:49:06 PM
Rob1943, in the school photo I wondered if the boy stood next to you was called Billy Stephenson?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on July 28, 2012, 10:13:28 AM
Good Morning All, I don't remember all the teachers names just a few, There where a few good ones but not a lot.
Could not wait to leave wanted to get a job to earn my own money still the same to this day a great feeling.
Hope your all good and keeping well.Liz17..
.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 02, 2012, 08:45:06 AM
Hi asp1, yes I do believe that boy's name was Billy but sorry I'm way to old to remember his surname in fact at times I forget mine own  :P   and good morning liz17 I hope you had a great day but why do you start work at 5am !!! omg I'm still dreaming about 57 shades of grey then  :-* LOL

Cheers, Rob
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on August 02, 2012, 08:52:04 AM
Morning all.  If its the same Billy he lived in Montreal Street, had an older sister Betty, who went to Everton as well.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on August 02, 2012, 03:36:15 PM
Good afternoon Rob, 1943 I wake at 5am lol, I leave for work at about 6am, I will be cutting my hours soon the thought of the dark
mornings, I've done enough of it  getting too old, The plus side is you finish early. Thanks for asking. Off out with my Granddaughter for a walk with the family dog molly, Hope your well, Enjoy your book  I have heard about it some good some not so good.
Did you live near Everton School when you went there? Liz..
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 04, 2012, 06:31:33 AM
Hi liz17, Hope you enjoyed your walk and your so lucky to be a Granny as my wife and I are still waiting for either our 43yr old daughter or 40yr old son to even get engaged  :( it's sad isn't it but they seem to have very different idea's these days so I guess we just roll along in hope  ;)   I was only joking about that book as my daughter and her friends are right into it and from what I hear about it I gave up Playboy mags many many years ago LOL :P

Yes I did live close to Everton in fact right opposite it in Cranbrook Gardens just down from the Bus Depot then there was a wee shop then further down there was a vacant block of land with a pile of dirt on it where we use to skid down off when it snowed and down the street.

Anyways enough from me cheers, Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on August 04, 2012, 12:36:16 PM
Yes Rob I am very blessed to have 5 grandkids my oldest boy nearly 44 has 1 daughter age 10 and my youngest boy 40 has 4, 2 boys 2 girls, girls are 20 and 10, the boys 18 and 12, I thank God every day for everything,So I know how lucky I am and I don't forget it.
Ref book thought you were joking lol. Did you go to the forum picks.  used to love going there Sat. mornings..Any way must get on with some housework won't get done itself..Take Care Liz. ::)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on August 06, 2012, 03:46:34 PM
Hope everyone on here had a good week-end, The weather here is a bit mixed. Keep trying to get a picture of everything around Everton School the caretakers house I believe is a doctors now can't remember what the school is used for now..Take Care all..Liz.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on August 06, 2012, 07:41:54 PM
When I visited Belfast a couple of years ago I went to have a look at the school, it was in a bit dreary looking, think its some sort of community/drop-in centre.  I found a lot of my old haunts had disappeared sad but at least the memories are good. The street I lived in is still there but redeveloped, I sat on the kerb where my house had been, seems a strange thing to do but it felt really good lol
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on August 07, 2012, 01:09:00 PM
Hello rob1943 hope you and family are well.
Well asp1 last time I saw the old school it did look very sad, felt like it was crying out :( lol, must say forgot to look round the back of it, don't know if you can still get in that way. :-\ Liz   
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 21, 2012, 12:57:45 PM
Hello ALL,  Sorry I havn't been on lately but what with helping my son move up North to Queensland and my dau moving into a new dwelling I've been rather busy :(  >:D It's not really what I thought retirement would be LOL.  Now Liz yes I went to the Forum picks most Saturdays and of course rolled jaffy's down the aisles as well as a few stick bombs  :o Family and I are rolling along fine thanks Liz as I hope you and yours are as well.

I was last in Belfast in 2010 and stayed with my cousins in Rathcoole and I went down to Everton just for a wee look and yes I agree with you asp and Liz it does look rather shabby poor old place but I have my memories and it will allways be a soft spot in my heart for my time there.

Stay well and happy and thanks for your support in this thread,  Cheers for now, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theorrs on August 21, 2012, 04:18:48 PM
rob 1943    can you remember the 2 cottages that stood at the corner of the crumlin rd an the woodvale rd be side the holycross school  would love to see any pics taken about 1945 thats when i  lived in woodvale dr and some children went to everton school i went to ballygomartin school which was beside the river that came down from the glencairn.  great times, no troubles then.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on August 21, 2012, 06:36:16 PM
1945 is a little early for me. I knew people from Woodvale Drive in the 60's. Had you moved then?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on August 21, 2012, 09:07:59 PM
Glad to see you back rob 1943, Boys then it was harmless fun, Do you remember fusgos(spelling might not be right) chippy many a happy time spent in there still love music any type, I married a singer keyboard player he was also a chef. Been quite busy with grandkids 3 younger ones,
My oldest boy has a mobile home so been there over week-end.I'm off work for a week from Friday and going to Devon for long week-end to see my friend who used to live in Belfast so should be good ;) .Your right asp1school does look dreary and run down. :o
Hope everyone and theres keep well. :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on August 21, 2012, 09:25:20 PM
Hi Liz, just wondered do you still live in Belfast, hope you enjoy Devon it's lovely there.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theorrs on August 22, 2012, 09:34:20 AM
yes asp 1, i had moved about 1964 got married an finished up in Holywood co down
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 22, 2012, 11:23:17 AM
Hi and welcome theorrs, sorry but 1945 I was 2yrs old and didn't get about much LOL  :D my Uncle lived in Woodville Park but I really can't say I remember those 2 cottages mate. Liz I do remember that chippy but my Ma was quite a control freak so I didn't get out a lot  . maybe that's just as well as I went a tad wild as soon as we got here to Australia and my 16yr old hormones kicked in  :o .  I had a couple of girlfriends at Everton but as I am now closing in on 70 my memory don't go back that far to remember their names :( what a shame eh ?

Hey have a wonderful time in Devon and don't do anything I won't do  :-*

Cheers ALL, Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on September 19, 2012, 07:43:43 PM
Hello everyone hope your all well and healthy, I have had a great and hectic few months   can't complain  got to now try and get back to some kind of normal if I can.ASP1 I now live in Kent have done since 1971, I did move back after my husband died stayed for 18 months  got a job in R.V.H  2 days after landing great job did not mean to stay so long had toget back missed my kids and grandkids, but had a good time.Rob1943 hope your behaving yourself  i've heard about you from some girls that went to Everton school lol   
good health to you and your... Liz 17 xo
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on September 19, 2012, 08:39:25 PM
Hi Liz17 good to hear from you again.  Seems we are all exiles, I live north east England. Don't get to Belfast very often, my kids and grandkids are here, so no chance of moving back.  Still keep in touch with family and friends so its not too bad.  Theres lots of things I miss though, especially chipshop pastie suppers !
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on September 20, 2012, 07:48:26 PM
Hello ASP1,I had a great time in Devon, My chum met me at Exeter she lives in a lovely place just outside there called Beer its beautiful.
She was my boss in R.V.H. she had been there 22 years left N.I. about 3 years ago and loves where she is now.
I miss a lot of things from home like mixed veg  soup mix, paris buns and yes our chippys can't be beaten.  what do others miss from home.
Take care              Liz 17  xo
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on September 20, 2012, 09:13:39 PM
Hi Liz : I've not really been to Devon, drove through Exeter but don't count that as a visit.  Been to Cornwall loads of times love it there. What a great name for a place though.    Paris buns, haven't thought of them for ages. Remember Veda bread, used to hate that when I was little. Have you always lived Kent? I've lived various places but been settled here since 76, although the company I work for is near Stansted airport so I get down there from time to time.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on September 22, 2012, 12:14:42 PM
Hello ASP1, Am I glad its the week-end, Been very busy at work lots happening, More or less always lived here the whole time, I've had a few breaks after my husband died I went too Guersey on a 3 week holiday but after 2 weeks I got a job got a permit to stay I think it was for 3 months when it ran out went to Belfast after 2 days got a job in R.V.H. stayed for 18 months but had to leave missed here to much. I've got to stop there.Think I've said before.lol. Have a great week-end the weather not bad here, whats your weather like up there.  Take care xo
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on September 22, 2012, 12:19:44 PM
H Rob 1943 I hope your well like you sometimes don't get on here but will try and keep going, but we need you on as well after all you started it.
You and yours keep well. Take care  Liz xo
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on September 23, 2012, 12:29:09 PM
Hi Liz and ALL,

Sorry once again for not being in here much but we have just come back from our yearly holidays up in the warm North of Australia and I have to say it was grand   Sun, Beaches, Food and cool Wine, ( plus a few bikini's but don't tell me Mrs LOL ) :o   Ohh Paris Buns wow hav'nt even thought about those in ages and the other thing I miss in me Belfast Fry although I must add my body dosn't miss them LOL  ;)   Glad you had a good time in Devon my Mrs and I stayed in Pol Perro last time we was over there and we stayed two nights in Exeter as well ... it was part of a 3 weeks drive around England, Wales and Scotland which we were fortunate to do 4 yrs prior to that trip :)

We had a wedding to go to in Belfast and my cousins got us a B&B where they served an Irish Fry for breakfast   Yummmmmm but she just looked at mine and said "How could You !!   LOL

Hello ASP1 so nice of you to pop back in here and I'm so veru pleased we ALL get a kick out of the thread as it gives us a chance to recall the old days and to remind each other of certain things :)

God Bless you ALL and thanks for joining in, my fondest wishes go out to you and yours, take care Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on September 24, 2012, 03:07:22 PM
Hi Rob  lucky you with the sunshine, raining cats and dogs here in north England and the nights seem the be drawing in fast. I like a fry from time to time, can buy potato bread etc in the shops, so its a nice treat. But I must admit its better when someone cooks it for you. 
Hi Liz : Have never been to the Channel Islands, but doing my family tree discovered my great grandfather married an Alderney girl and lived there for a while before returning to Belfast.   
Do either of you remember dulce (dark red seaweed) from the fruit shops?  I hadn't had any for years and my cousin sent me some,  Really salty so  I suppose this day and age we wouldn't feed our kids it, but at school we were always eating the little bags of it.
Glad you are both well
 
 
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on September 24, 2012, 08:42:29 PM
Rob1943, Good to have you on board again, Not heard of pol perro must ask my chum.Hello asp1, When I used to go home my husband and sons gave me a shopping list,dulce,brown lemonade,wee buns( mixed pastry)sodas,potato bread and buttermilk, there must be more can't think at the moment.
But as you say you can get the latter 3 in England now. Glad you and mrs had a good time looks like she has her hands full with you ha ha.  :D
I will have to get the little grey cells working to remember more. Take care rob1943 and you asp1  good to hear from you. Liz...
  ::) ???
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on September 24, 2012, 09:00:40 PM
I think the best crisps are Tayto and I get them online delivered. Cheese and Onion heaven lol.  Can't believe how many on the forum don't actually live in Belfast anymore.  Here in Middlesbough I have met people from the Crumlin Road, Agnes Street, Ainsworth Avenue and the Shankill, to mention a few places.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on September 27, 2012, 11:54:02 AM
Hi asp1 and a big YES to dulce    we use to have a bag of dulce and another bag of periwinkles when we went to the Forum picture house and then we would flick the periwinkle shells over the top of people  .. yes I was a [censored] but after all wasn't that what young boys are suppose to be ??  :P   Liz PolPerro is next to Looe on the Cornwell coast down from Plymouth and from there we went to Mount Michael which was fantastic and they served the best Clotted cream scones with tea   Yummy :)

Take care folks till I get on here next, Rob :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on September 28, 2012, 02:50:20 PM
Hello rob and asp1 at last the week-end busy week. You must love Tayto to have them delivered If I remember  they made them on the shankill road  below Agnes st am I right.Hello hope your well rob1943 Take care all.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 01, 2012, 09:21:58 AM
Hi Liz & asp1,

I don't know about Tayto but last time I was home in Belfast staying with my cousin I couldn't get over the mix of crisps you could get there ... It made them lol and then they took me to their local supermarket just see how many different tastes we could buy OMG  :o  I think we ended up with about 15 !!

Hope you ALL are well and happy and life is treating you good  ;)

Cheers for now, Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on October 02, 2012, 10:47:20 AM
Hello rob1943,Good to hear from you hope you and family are well.As you can see I'm not at work, I'ts 10-35am voice gone feels like I have a hangover,
So got to get myself back on track, In our school days we just wanted to get to the next age number but look were we are now who would have thought.
All in all It's been a good journey a bit bumpy at times but mainly good. hope your well asp1 not heard from you . Take care ya all. Liz. :bad: :bb: :drinks: Tayto would not go down very well,but given time maybe in a few days. :haha:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 02, 2012, 12:55:31 PM
Hi Liz, So sorry to hear your not feeling the best but you know of course you can't hold a Belfastion down long  :P  so I know you will be 100% very soon  :-*   Yes I have to agree as my kids who btw are now 43 & 40 yrs old say age is but a number and my standard answer to that is " Yeh wait till your my age and let's see if you still say the same ?"  LOL :D

Take care my friend, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on October 02, 2012, 11:20:04 PM
Liz I hope you're feeling better, sorry I haven't been posting just been a busy time, weekends are always a bit hectic trying to catch up with things that get put off when I'm working during the week.  I'm sure you know what that's like.
Rob : crisps have gone mad, they even have turkey and stuffing flavour for Christmas  :D  I can't buy Tayto here but I think they are the best crisps.  My gran kids love them too!     I think age doesn't matter, mentally I feel I'm still in my 20's but after a night partying the aches and pains remind me I'm not  :(   
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 03, 2012, 08:09:15 AM
Hi asp1,  I know what you mean about being busy I often say I'd like to be back in the workforce as I don't seem to have any spare time in retirement  ;)   But it ALL helps keep the body and mind active and they say that's the secret to a happy healthy long life and I intend to be here till I'm 110  :o  LOL

Trouble is asp1 I have the aches and pains and I havn't even partied LOL  ???

Cheers for now, ps. I have added you and Liz to my buddies list hope neither of you mind but if so just tell me and I'll correct it,  Rob :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on October 03, 2012, 09:47:39 AM
Hello rob1943 and asp1 good to hear from you buddies lol, Can't stay on here long, Still not back to work, coughing like mad so got to go see a doctor.
If thats not all my brother Jim was taken into hospital last night his sugar level was 32 very high, he has had traumatic brain injury, happened 2 years ago
and I phone him every night and call after work twice a week, so got to deal with that. but you know us from Norn Ireland are tough cookies. :bb: Take care  O0 great to hear from you both please keep talking.bye No parties while I'm away. :party:
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 07, 2012, 04:51:59 AM
Hi Liz, So sorry to hear about both your cough and your brother so I'm sending you both my very special home brewed heart felt wishes and thoughts for a good & speedy recovery and you gotta know Rob's specials DON'T fail OK ?  ;)    Now as far as partying well I honestly can't fully agree to that as our son has just dropped into Melbourne with his "Fiancée" which has my Mrs and I in a spin   OMG at long last  :o  The other thing that is spinning us out is as she is an American they are planning the wedding in Hawaii. !!!  ( Bloody long way away for us  ??? )

Please get better soon Liz and seriously my prayers go out to for your brother's outcome !

Friendly hugs and cheers for now, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on October 07, 2012, 05:17:45 PM
Liz : Hope things have picked up for you and your brother. Thinking of you both.
Rob: Congratulations to your son and his intended. Always enjoy a wedding. My three are all settled now the last was my son just over a year ago, that wedding was at Gretna Green,  February freezing but we all enjoyed it. but must confess a little sad without my husband on the family occasions.  Hawaii now that's great although I suppose the floral shirts won't be required lol.
Not much happening here at the moment, just been busy working and shopping for my holiday. Looking forward to a bit of sunshine as there's been very little of it this year. Any tan is from rust with all the rain and floods we've had in the typical British summer.
 
 
 
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on October 07, 2012, 06:54:22 PM
Rob1943, Thanks for prayers still waiting for home brew, :D What wonderful news about your son,Hawaii,
Brace yourselves and start saving like mad,Enjoy every moment, remember to have a soft place to fall when it sinks in. :yahoo:
asp1 Lovely to hear from you,We do make work for ourselves don't we, as you know some things could wait but we must do it now ::)
Thank you both for your well wishes, I do feel much better a wee bit wishy washy but a lot better, My brother is out and on insulin don't know if its for good or what,will have too wait for doc's results.
Would you believe it going to a 60's and 70's night on 2nd Nov.hope I'm up for it I know when I hear the music I'll think I'm in the Plaza back home. :haha: :whistle: Now hold that thought :party: Hope all well in both your worlds. blessings and health.Liz xo.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 08, 2012, 08:58:11 AM
Hi asp1 and Liz, many thanks for your kind comments and I almost choked on that "Rust" comment asp1  :o  LOL and I have already told my son that I will search out the most loud and outrageous floral shirt to wear with my grass skirt   LOL  ;)  he dosn't know if I'm serious or not  :D

Ohh Liz 60's 70's the best years ever  ::)  that has to get you up and well don't it ? He he

Take care as I care, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on October 08, 2012, 09:28:48 AM
Good morning to you both, I have had a good nights sleep thanks to lemsip better than drink, :drinks:
Do you remember the wee bottles of milk we used to get in school, I only remember it in winter time, Used to sit ouside in the snow the milk was almost frozen, but never tasted milk like it since it was so nice. :nyam:
When do you go on holiday and where, do tell,asp1  I hope its soon.
Suppose it'll be shirts to the ready for this wedding, you must keep us up to date with everything please Rob.. Good health to both.  Take care     Blessings.   Liz
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on October 08, 2012, 10:27:45 PM
Rob:   expect you to post a pic of you in the grass skirt  ;)  Forgot to ask whe is the wedding taking place?  I'm excited and I don't even know your son!   Still rusting here thick fog as well this morning, still be in the sunshine soon.
Liz: Glad your brother's getting sorted I'm sure when the insulin stabilises things, he will be 100%.   On the subject of school milk, I hated it and never ever had any, I didn't even like watching the others drink it. I still remember the smell and it's awful :bad:  I did like the jam sponge and custard and the semolina from the school dinners. My grandkids don't get milk at school they only allow water and the kids take their own bottles every day. 
I'm off to Lanzarote in just over a week's time. really looking forward to it.   Great music from the 60's & 70's, the wee club I go to have a different group on every week and it's a mixture from 60's to up to date, I love it all from the Searchers, through Sweet, T-rex, Alice Cooper, to Madness, Guns & Roses, right up to Lady GaGa.  Dance to them all even Bob Marley is in there.  Keeps me fit and  no need for the WD40 for the joints just yet lol !   
Take care buddies, chat soon
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 10, 2012, 10:59:28 AM
LOL at the grass skirt photo asp1 .. the wedding will most likely be next August and they are planning to have it in Hawaii so that's why the subject of grass skirt came up  ;) and Hi Liz so glad to hear you've had a good sleep and have to agree the ole lim sip is great plus the odd wee dram of whiskey LOL   Bushmills of course  :P   Liz I remember being picked quite often to carry those crates of mini milk bottles to the different class rooms ... when my cousin came to Everton we use to drink a couple as we carried the crates  :D .  I'm sooo disappointed today as I was picked for juror service and only got to be there for a day when the whole juror was dismissed because one woman decided she might know one of the persons involved ... dam I wanted to experience the process and as it was going to be a 8 - 10weeks it also would have been a nice wee pay packet LOL  >:D ah well I'll just have to take to the streets again and sell my body  :o LOL

Take care folks    Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on October 14, 2012, 08:43:49 AM
Good morning, hope your both well, asp1 funny you said about the jam sponge I made one last week for my families I do it in a dish the size of a roasting dish so quite big and put coconut on top, When it starts to get cold out come the baking trays :D
rob1943 Aug will be here before you know it, What will the weather be like in Hawaii then 8)
I think asp1 might be on holiday now hope she has a good time. You will have to get the jane fonda tape out to get in good shape for the dancing after at the wedding, got to look good on the floor :hi: Well back to work in the morning as we would say "back to porridge".LOTS OF HEALTH TO YOU BOTH
                        Liz. :girl_cray:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 14, 2012, 08:59:16 AM
Hi Liz, your jam sponge sounds yummy we might have to stop off and taste it on our way thru to Hawaii  :D and our future daughter in law tells us that the weather should be awesome at that time so I may have to buy some of those wee skimpy bathing trunks LOL  ;)   Mrs and I are starting back to the gym next week so that maybe a few pounds will drop off by next August   we shall see  ???   ( The bigger challenge will be for us old pensioners to save up the airfare  :o )

Have a great day my friend and don't work too hard,

Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on October 21, 2012, 07:17:20 PM
Hi Liz, your jam sponge sounds yummy we might have to stop off and taste it on our way thru to Hawaii  :D and our future daughter in law tells us that the weather should be awesome at that time so I may have to buy some of those wee skimpy bathing trunks LOL  ;)   Mrs and I are starting back to the gym next week so that maybe a few pounds will drop off by next August   we shall see  ???   ( The bigger challenge will be for us old pensioners to save up the airfare  :o )

Have a great day my friend and don't work too hard,

Rob  :-*
I was nearly finished replying and lost it all, Anyway as I was saying hope you and mrs are well.
I should start again on my wii fit did not want to start too soon after that bad bout I had but your making me sound lazy. Please don't go for the skimpy bathing shorts you'll need an operation to remove them now you know you both need the money for the drink. :haha: You are both very welcome to stop off and have some jam sponge, The deal is you bring some good weather with you..Have a very healthy week ahead :-* Liz
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Watso on October 23, 2012, 06:29:41 AM
I didnt go to Everton myself,but i do remember a few boys who left to go to glenwood about 1952.There was Alex Harper from Glenbank Place,Sam Aughey from Cranbrook Gds and Jim Graham fom Berwick road,t These names may trigger of afew memories.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 25, 2012, 10:08:37 AM
Hi Watso and welcome to the thread  .. I'm afraid my wee grey cells are depleting as we speak LOL  :o so those names do not ring any bells in my head but maybe some others in here will have better memories !

LOL Liz about the bathers  . I tired a G String once and I've never ever found it again  :o yeh well we started back at gym and I'm soooo bloody sore it had better be doing me some good  >:D   Hey Liz the weather has been really good here for past few weeks and I believe August in Hawaii is HOT and HUMID ( that sounds like my Mrs LOL  ::) ) so I'll pack some in a wee postage bag and mail it to you OK ?

Stay good folks, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on December 24, 2012, 09:02:06 AM
Hello Everton folks, I just popped in to Wish you ALL A Very Merry Christmas and A Safe and Happy New Year plus thanks so very much for joining in on this thread even though it ended up being a very small group of people but they for me are a very select and wonderful group  ;)

Have a great time and I look forward to 2013 and maybe we can share some more memories together and who knows maybe even some more Evertonians may appear LOL  :o

Cheers for now,  Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on December 24, 2012, 05:24:00 PM
Hello Rob 1943, Good to hear from you buddy,I have been very busy not been on here for some time but off work for 8 days so hope we can talk.               asp1hope your keeping well  please let me know how your holiday went                    Watso I know an Alex Harper  I think he married a girl from Silverstream Road      Take Care                                                                                                                                                                             
 
 
 Merry Christmas &Happy Healthy New Year to all on the EVERTON thread
God Bless.xo.Liz 17.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theengineer on December 28, 2012, 10:09:49 PM
and me too.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Jim Kane on January 21, 2013, 12:21:59 AM
Hey Rob
I think Mr Barnes (Benjamin?) may be my Great Uncle. I don't suppose anyone would have a photo with him in it?
Cheers
Jim
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 21, 2013, 04:37:56 AM
Hi & welcome Jim Kane, I will go thru my Mum's albums and see if I can find any of those yearly class photo's they use to take at school !  It would be great if he was the same person Jim   I remember he was a very strict teacher but a very understanding one as well and I'm sure he was the one that we were told had a plate in his head from a war injury ?  ???

Anyhow, I'll have a good look for you Jim and post if I find any OK ?

Cheers, Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 21, 2013, 07:10:24 AM
OK Folks I've just found another school photo but I'm sorry it's not from Everton but instead it's Wheatfield Primary where most of the Everton students got sent to while some repair work was carried out at Everton.  Anyways, maybe someone out there will remember this and maybe even are in this photo I hope  :o
(http://i47.tinypic.com/adgo6a.jpg)

Cheers, (btw Thats me top row first skinny wee weed LOL), Rob ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: MMcM on January 30, 2013, 10:09:10 AM
Hi Rob,
I attended Everton from 1959 to 1963.
My Maths teacher was Mr Barnes - what a great teacher he was.
I also remember Alfie Redpath (spunk) he was my form teacher;
 Ms Hall - Domestic Science -I always thought it was a funny name for cookery...
Ms Mc Cullough Music teacher, I passed the audition for the school choir by singing the first verse of "The Lords My Shepherd".
Mrs Engineer, can't remember what subject she took us for but I do remember her method of punishment on one poor unfortunate boy in my class.
Miss Bennett and Miss Minnis took us for PE, they were both great. Sadly my only photo of my time there was of the school hockey team, we used to play against other schools and some of those country girls were pretty damn rough.
If Liz reads this,  the hockey team also wore those PURPLE pleated skirts :P .
Cheers and out...MMcM
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RSL on February 01, 2013, 11:21:32 AM
Hi Rob,
I attended Everton from 1959 to 1963.
My Maths teacher was Mr Barnes - what a great teacher he was.
I also remember Alfie Redpath (spunk) he was my form teacher;
 Ms Hall - Domestic Science -I always thought it was a funny name for cookery...
Ms Mc Cullough Music teacher, I passed the audition for the school choir by singing the first verse of "The Lords My Shepherd".
Mrs Engineer, can't remember what subject she took us for but I do remember her method of punishment on one poor unfortunate boy in my class.
Miss Bennett and Miss Minnis took us for PE, they were both great. Sadly my only photo of my time there was of the school hockey team, we used to play against other schools and some of those country girls were pretty damn rough.
If Liz reads this,  the hockey team also wore those PURPLE pleated skirts :P .
Cheers and out...MMcM

Hi MMcM( ? Mickey) ??? Welcome to the forum.
I didn't go to Everton but I'm sure you will hear from others on the forum who did.
It was good to read your memories of your time at school.
Regards RSL.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on February 02, 2013, 10:03:25 AM
Hey MMcM, welcome to the forum and a BIG welcome to this thread  ;)   It's great to hear from another Evertonian even if by your time the old school became Girl's Only  . still I would have preferred to be then LOL  :P ( Don't know if those pleated skirts would have suited me but for an ALL Girl's School I would have given it a try  :o LOL  Glad to hear some of those old teacher names and yes I had Mr Barnes for Maths and was it Redpath that drove a little red MG sports car ?

Anyhow, glad to have you onboard there are some terrific folks and threads on here and I'm positive you will have a good time !

Cheers for now, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Slybacon on February 03, 2013, 05:14:48 AM
Who drove the huge old rover with the runner boards ?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on February 03, 2013, 09:07:51 AM
Hi Slybacon, I've got an idea that was Mr. Cathcart but then again that was back in the years 1950 to 1958 ? and my wee grey cells are a bit scrabbled these days LOL  ;)

Cheers, Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: thefiestadancer on February 03, 2013, 07:05:29 PM
hi the choir master was duke mccaullough do you remember mr toner we all said that he ad a cork leg,one school room was burnt while we where on holidays and Mr Harbinson was killed testing a plane as he was a test pilot as well as a teacher,hope this helps
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: MMcM on February 04, 2013, 06:20:56 AM
Hello Rob,
When I left Everton in 1963 it was still Co-Ed, not sure when it actually became a Girls only school.
Some of the people I remember were Heather Hillis (a real good friend from the Oldpark Rd but we have lost touch) Andrea Snoddy, Elizabeth Rollison,Tom Hinton, Fred McAdam, John Boyd, David Graham and Errol Hall.
 
As for Alfie Redpath, not sure if he had a red MG, wouldn't be at all surprised if it was him.
I know he played cricket as I used to see him when I played tennis somewhere near Glenbank??
Speaking of Glenbank Mill, I worked in the office for a while after I left school.
Thank you for the welcome,
Cheers,
MMcM
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on February 12, 2013, 01:57:56 AM
Welcome Thefiestadancer sorry but I don't recall a Duke McCaullough but I was in the School Choir for a few years and we traveled to England and won a Prize in a School's Choir meet but that would have been perhaps 1955/56 cause I remember so well that my voice broke and I was politely asked to leave the choir until the vocal chords settled LOL  :o

MMcM the welcome was my pleasure and anything folks can add to this thread is also so welcomed as that's the whole reason for these threads    sharing and prompting the ole grey cells into remembering some great time's  ::) I wish I could remember a lot more names of fellow classroom friends back then but sadly a lot of it is a blank now  :'(

Cheers for now, Rob  :preved:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RSL on February 23, 2013, 06:31:58 AM
I am posting this on behalf of MMcM. It's a photo of the Everton Senior Hockey team, circa 1962/1963.

(http://i.imgur.com/bRewxX5.jpg?1)

Teachers (L) Miss Bennett (R) Miss Minnis.
 MMcM is front row 2nd from left.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on February 24, 2013, 04:13:57 AM
Hey RSL welcome and thanks for posting that photo now we ALL get to see what MMcM looked like back then LOL it's great that you folks still take the time to drop in with some stories and photo's it would be wonderful if there was more photo's of Everton days even if they arn't around the same dates I was there after all this thread is about Everton School not ME  ;)

Cheers ALL and thanks again,

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: thefiestadancer on May 10, 2013, 09:32:13 PM
Mr Tony was the teacher who walked around the playground with a lame leg and appeared to yawn a lot we where told he had a cork leg and was shot through his mouth ,next was Mr Orr who took us for nature study, when we went for the baps the mans name was Mr Arlow In cranbrook gardens.in my days one classroom was burned and the other scorched I went to everton 1945/52.j
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: thefiestadancer on May 10, 2013, 09:37:14 PM
hi rob the choir master was known better as duke and on of the choir boys was w beer hope m, last info helped j ps I left and went to he henhouse
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 13, 2013, 12:05:46 PM
Hi thefiestadancer,  Yeh I do remember the cork leg man we use to wonder if we could throw darts at his leg would they stay in there LOL and yes that Mr Arlow was'nt he the owner of the wee shop at top of Cranbrook Gardens    I lived in same street and if my memory serves me right his shop was right next to the bus depot ?  Those baps use to make a holy mess of school blazers or jumpers I recall  :D   Do you remember us having to carry those crates of small milk bottles to the classrooms ?  I and other boys only volunteered to get out of some of the boring lessons  ;)   ( Still ALL good memories )

Cheers, Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: [email protected]. on May 14, 2013, 01:40:20 PM
Hi. went  to everton secordary school for girls. Sept 1964-1968. Can also remember one teacher Miss York but not what she taught. Afew names that come to mind that where in same class as me is Elma Tate, Hazel Mc Conaghie, and there was 2 Annes. 1  from Siverstream and the othe from about Snugville Street I think. Another person has just came to mind Lorna, think her was the minister at the church on Ardoyne Road. :)       Roberta Bolton nee Brown
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 20, 2013, 08:52:03 AM
Hi Roberta,  Welcome to the thread and thanks for your input it's great that folks who went to Everton either before or after it became a ALL girls school  ;)   I hope some of you remember each other or maybe some of the names being posted in here   either teachers or fellow school chums at the time  ???

My very best wishes to you ALL and please keep coming back and invite others to join who may not know of this thread  :D

Cheers, Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Canmore on May 26, 2013, 01:28:14 AM
Went to Everton with a lot of other school friends when St Saviours School closed. I remember Mr Smith, Tony Mr Kearns and Mr Strait (he played rugby for the Colligans) I remember at that time there was a machine that everyone called it a robot pulling up the old tramlines. And at that time there was a movie out called Tobor.  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 26, 2013, 11:36:52 AM
Hello and a Big Welcome Canmore and thanks for writing into this thread I'm sure a number of other folks will read and add something to your memories  ;)

Cheers, Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 10, 2013, 11:32:56 AM
Just remembered across the road from the shops the fire station and I think the co-op one of my brothers worked there for a while can't think if there was any more feel there might be. Anyway Good night  up in the morning for work at 5am. Liz
The Co-op was further down on the Woodvale Road. It was Stewarts at Ardoyne..just up from he Fire Station.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 10, 2013, 11:44:05 AM
Glad to see you back rob 1943, Boys then it was harmless fun, Do you remember fusgos(spelling might not be right) chippy many a happy time spent in there still love music any type, I married a singer keyboard player he was also a chef. Been quite busy with grandkids 3 younger ones,
My oldest boy has a mobile home so been there over week-end.I'm off work for a week from Friday and going to Devon for long week-end to see my friend who used to live in Belfast so should be good ;) .Your right asp1school does look dreary and run down. :o
Hope everyone and theres keep well. :)

Liz...Fusco's..was that Freddy Fusco's? If anybody is interested there is a novel called " The Faloorie Man" by Eugene McEldowney which mentions a lot of the old Ardoyne shop characters from the 50s...Freddie's is one, and the newspaper shop owner whose name I have forgotten for the moment. You can get " The Faloorie Man" on Amazon Kindle.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 10, 2013, 11:59:14 AM
OK Folks I've just found another school photo but I'm sorry it's not from Everton but instead it's Wheatfield Primary where most of the Everton students got sent to while some repair work was carried out at Everton.  Anyways, maybe someone out there will remember this and maybe even are in this photo I hope  :o
(http://i47.tinypic.com/adgo6a.jpg)

Cheers, (btw Thats me top row first skinny wee weed LOL), Rob ;)

Hi Rob , I remember the bloke in the second row, second from the right. Can't think of his name but remember his face clearly. I also recognised the bloke on the left in the back row, then looked at your message and see that it is you. So you must have been at the school when I was there but I would have been a couple of years behind you being a 1945 fella. There are a few more familiar faces there but if you look at enough school photos of that era you can start to think you remember people you couldn't possibly have known. I think we all have doubles walking around. Here...maybe I remember your face because you were one of the big lads that would torment the younger ones!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 10, 2013, 12:17:24 PM
Really enjoyed reading all the memories on this thread. I only went to Everton for a year and a bit before moving up to Wheatfield, but I can still recall all those teacher names...Fanny Freeburn, Mr Redpath, and Mr Keers the headmaster. My brother went to Everton from 1944 until about 1951 so maybe I remember those teacher names because of hearing him talk about them. I can remember being sent to take a message to Mr Keers...me all of five years old..and only at the school a few weeks...and being told to take a message to Mr Keers who was taking a class on this day. I had to find my way to his class, and got lost a few times.In those days a lot of the classes were divided off with screens ...I think maybe this is what they did in the assembly hall...because there were so many kids, and not enough classrooms. Anyway, whatever message I took to Mr Keers, he just growled at me and told me to get back to my class. A Miss Crooks was my first teacher at Everton. She was fairly young looking back on it, but of course we thought she was ancient. She drummed tables into us...at 5 years old for goodness sake. She brought a group of us out to the front of the class and with the blunt end of a pencil poking out of her fist went round the group as we recited the 2 times table...her thumping the blunt end of the pencil on to our heads. I often wonder what became of her, someone so young, and with so much aggression towards children just starting out in their school years.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 10, 2013, 12:20:17 PM
Do people remember the old school canteen..." The dinners"..just up from Everton school...alongside the old NFS, or what we used to call " The Ennie". The Ennie was a great place to run around in, our own Sherwood forest on our doorstep.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 12, 2013, 12:53:44 PM
Does anyone remember the OK Stores at Ardoyne shops? It was an old style hardware store clutered from floor to ceiling with hardware. The lady who owned it used to wear a long black dustcoat, and a beret. She knew were every screw and nail was kept. Can't recall her name. Grocery stores ar Ardoyne were Stewarts, and Liptons. There was a garage next door to a chemist, and next door to that I think was the newsagents, a pokey little shop. There was an entry that ran along the side of the newsagents between it and the fish shop...or was it the butcher shop. Once a year the owner of the newsagency used to put a gate across the entry supposedly to show that he owned the access. Urban legend I suppose but it did happen. The guy who owned the newsagency also ran a taxi service. There was an ice cream/tea shop and confectionery place called The Castle, owned by an Italian family. Freddie fish and chip shop was down below the Forum, and sold really greasy fish and chips. I remember they used to have " Fly Papers" hanging from the ceiling...a roll of sticky paper that attracted flies, and when they landed on it they stuck. Over a summer the papers would become thick with the trapped flies.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 14, 2013, 12:37:52 PM
Peaser, I do remember that newsagency as I use to go there every week to pick up my comic books the Beano and a few others that have also gone with my grey cells  . what were they called now  .. omg I actually joined one of the comic's Club and got an annual large print book of ALL the copies that came out during the year  ???    Ahh well age catches up with me again
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 14, 2013, 01:41:40 PM
Beano, Dandy, Topper, Rover, Eagle, Knockout, Film Fun, Radio Fun, The Lion, The Hotspur, Tiger....the list goes on.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 14, 2013, 02:19:56 PM
Does anyone remember the OK Stores at Ardoyne shops? It was an old style hardware store clutered from floor to ceiling with hardware. The lady who owned it used to wear a long black dustcoat, and a beret. She knew were every screw and nail was kept. Can't recall her name. Grocery stores ar Ardoyne were Stewarts, and Liptons. There was a garage next door to a chemist, and next door to that I think was the newsagents, a pokey little shop. There was an entry that ran along the side of the newsagents between it and the fish shop...or was it the butcher shop. Once a year the owner of the newsagency used to put a gate across the entry supposedly to show that he owned the access. Urban legend I suppose but it did happen. The guy who owned the newsagency also ran a taxi service. There was an ice cream/tea shop and confectionery place called The Castle, owned by an Italian family. Freddie fish and chip shop was down below the Forum, and sold really greasy fish and chips. I remember they used to have " Fly Papers" hanging from the ceiling...a roll of sticky paper that attracted flies, and when they landed on it they stuck. Over a summer the papers would become thick with the trapped flies.

 
  The  News  Paper  shop  was  called  Delainy ( not  sure if  my  spelling  is  correct )
   and  yes  the  entry  was  own  by  him, and  he  did  close the gate  now and  then.
 
 
 
  " Freddie fish and chip shop was down below the Forum, and sold really greasy fish and chips".
   I  beg  to  differ  with  you  on  this,  Freddies  Fish  n  Chips  were  great.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 14, 2013, 09:16:00 PM
Well remembered barry. It was Delany's...and Charlie Delaney was the owner. Didn't he smoke cigars?
Maybe I am being hard on Freddie's fish and chips. I just have that bad memory of the flies stuck to the rolls of flypaper and them getting a daily coat of the fat carried up from the friers. It is 51 years since I was in Freddie's, and even then it was only to buy a packet of KP nuts.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Dommo on July 14, 2013, 09:20:35 PM
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2kqpu.jpg)

Let's see if this works    Time for a wee laugh at my expense  ;) if this photo gets posted here then it will show my School Photo of 1954 at Wheatfield School during the period we were all sent up there while Everton had some work done to it and the "DORK" five in from the top row is me  ??? LOL

Cheers ALL,

Rob
I left or right?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 14, 2013, 09:36:59 PM
Good point Dommers.  We were all DORKS in those days.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Dommo on July 14, 2013, 09:56:27 PM
Good point Dommers.  We were all DORKS in those days.
dorks are the best people. Thy never do harm
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 14, 2013, 10:18:07 PM
Well remembered barry. It was Delany's...and Charlie Delaney was the owner.
 

Maybe I am being hard on Freddie's fish and chips.
 
 daily coat of the fat carried up from the friers. It is 51 years since I was in Freddie's, and even then it was only to buy a packet of KP nuts.

Well remembered barry. It was Delany's...and Charlie Delaney was the owner. Didn't he smoke cigars?
Yes  I  think  you  are  right  Peaser, he  always  had  a  stub  cigar
hanging  from  his  mouth     
 

Maybe I am being hard on Freddie's fish and chips. I just have that bad memory of the flies stuck to the rolls of flypaper
back  in  them  Days  Peaser, rolls  of  sticky  fly  paper  was  the
norm    :) 
 
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 18, 2013, 02:33:52 PM
Dommo, that was 5 in from the right mate  ... The pale white sick looking dork lol  ???

Cheers, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Dommo on July 18, 2013, 03:41:08 PM
Dommo, that was 5 in from the right mate  ... The pale white sick looking dork lol  ???

Cheers, Rob  ;)
a cute guy you mean!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 21, 2013, 10:20:17 PM
Does anyone remember " The Enny"?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 21, 2013, 10:32:31 PM
Does anyone remember " The Enny"?

  Is  that  slang  for  Edenderry ???  Peaser.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: jmac on July 21, 2013, 10:40:31 PM

Well remembered barry. It was Delany's...and Charlie Delaney was the owner. Didn't he smoke cigars?
Yes  I  think  you  are  right  Peaser, he  always  had  a  stub  cigar
hanging  from  his  mouth     
 

Maybe I am being hard on Freddie's fish and chips. I just have that bad memory of the flies stuck to the rolls of flypaper
back  in  them  Days  Peaser, rolls  of  sticky  fly  paper  was  the
norm    :)
Was Delany a big fat man?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 21, 2013, 10:45:22 PM
Was Delany a big fat man?

 Yes  James, he  was,  it  would  have  been  easier  to  go  over  Him, then  around   :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: jmac on July 21, 2013, 10:50:27 PM

 Yes  James, he  was,  it  would  have  been  easier  to  go  over  Him, then  around   :D
I remember him,  they should have put him onto the road on the 12th  :D
no need for a protest :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 21, 2013, 11:23:23 PM
Was Delany a big fat man?
He was a wee fat man I think..maybe average size. Wore striped shirts with fancy elastic bands round the arms to hld the cuffs back...something  like that. You can read about Delaney's and Freddies in a fiction book set in Ardoyne called The Faloorie Man by Eugene McEldowney.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 21, 2013, 11:26:01 PM

  Is  that  slang  for  Edenderry ???  Peaser.

No. It's short for the NFS, a big wooded area beside Everton. We called it the Enny. Did you go to Edenderry? My brother went to Edenderry from about 1951 to 1954.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 21, 2013, 11:56:51 PM

No. It's short for the NFS, a big wooded area beside Everton. We called it the Enny. Did you go to Edenderry? My brother went to Edenderry from about 1951 to 1954.

  No  Peaser, I  went  to  Saint  Gabs,  :drinks:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 22, 2013, 01:21:19 AM
What years did you go to St Gabs?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 22, 2013, 01:57:14 AM
What years did you go to St Gabs?

   From  61  to  65, I'm  thinking,  we  are  around  the  same  age ? I  was  born  in  sept  49,
   now  that  I  see  that  in  writing, kinda  scary  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 22, 2013, 02:33:00 AM
No barry I was a 1945 boy so by 1961 I was a working man. I only knew a couple of blokes who wold have gone to St Gabs but they would have been in the early 50s.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 22, 2013, 02:38:20 AM
Here's an Everton memory. Around 1950/51 a bloke was sent around the classes to sing for us. I remember it clearly...he came in and said who he was and that he had been sent to do his Al Jolson impersonation. He sang " Mammy"...and he think he even wore white gloves to do it. He was very good. His teacher, or the principal must have thought it would be good for the school to see a young lad with talent, and so they sent him round the classes. Anyone else remember an incident like this...or even remember this bloke. Often wondered what became of him. Maybe ended up in a showband....or went to work in Mackies.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 22, 2013, 12:33:23 PM
No barry I was a 1945 boy so by 1961 I was a working man. I only knew a couple of blokes who wold have gone to St Gabs but they would have been in the early 50s.

 Thanks  for  cheering  me up  this  Morming  Peaser,
 Now  I  don't  feel  so  old     :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 23, 2013, 08:57:44 AM
Barry try seeing 43 mate now that's old lol  :D  and Peaser yes I do recall the Al Jolson singer coming into our classroom and I do believe he was a fellow choir member in the school choir that I was in at the time but sadly I can't remember his name  . dam the ole dead grey cells ahh well  ???

Rob  ;)

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 23, 2013, 12:51:31 PM
Brilliant Rob. What a great site this is. We may find this " Al Jolson" yet.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Charlie Killow on July 24, 2013, 08:27:29 PM
Hello ALL in Belfast Forum,

I'm just wondering if any folks out there went to Everton Primary which then became Everton Secondary and I believe afterwards it became a Girls only school ?  I'm talking about back in the 50's as I left there in 1957 as a 14yr old and started my first job as a grocery home delivery boy for a grocery store which was up the top end of Woodville Parade.

Some teacher names I recall back then were :  Mr. Cathcart ( I think he was our Religion Teacher ) and Miss Fanny Freeburn ( I think she was our English Teacher ) and Mr. Barnes ( who I know was our Maths Teacher ). Sorry but my wee old grey cells are burning out fast but I also remember when Everton was having some renovations done we were ALL sent up to Wheatfield School.

Anyhow, I would be thrilled if anyone of that era could add anything to this thread :)

Thanks and Cheers,
Rob
Hello to all ex pupils. I went to Everton between September 1962 and June 1964 when it became a girls school and all us boys were sent off to Somerdale. I remember all the teachers mentioned- Mr Cathcart taught maths but it wasn`t till a few years later that I found out how he applied his maths when I was on the buses we used to pick him up at York Road Station and take him up to the dogs at Dunmore!!
Best wishes to one and all
Charlie Killow
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 25, 2013, 02:05:51 AM
Barry try seeing 43 mate now that's old lol  :D  and Peaser yes I do recall the Al Jolson singer coming into our classroom and I do believe he was a fellow choir member in the school choir that I was in at the time but sadly I can't remember his name  . dam the ole dead grey cells ahh well  ???

Rob  ;)

 
Hello  Rob,  would  that  be  1943 ?  or  your  43  yrs  old, either  way  M8, good  health  to  you   O0 :drinks:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: barry on July 25, 2013, 02:24:53 AM
Hello to all ex pupils. I went to Everton between September 1962 and June 1964 when it became a girls school and all us boys were sent off to Somerdale. I remember all the teachers mentioned- Mr Cathcart taught maths but it wasn`t till a few years later that I found out how he applied his maths when I was on the buses we used to pick him up at York Road Station and take him up to the dogs at Dunmore!!
Best wishes to one and all
Charlie Killow

Welcome  to  the  Forum  Charlie Killow (http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/index.php?action=profile;u=18848)    :drinks:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 25, 2013, 03:23:14 AM
Hello to all ex pupils. I went to Everton between September 1962 and June 1964 when it became a girls school and all us boys were sent off to Somerdale. I remember all the teachers mentioned- Mr Cathcart taught maths but it wasn`t till a few years later that I found out how he applied his maths when I was on the buses we used to pick him up at York Road Station and take him up to the dogs at Dunmore!!
Best wishes to one and all
Charlie Killow
Hi Charlie
George Shaw from 29.
Haven't heard of you in years. But then I've had several disasters with PCs in recent years and lost loads of emails and addresses. Using Apple Mac these days so no breakdowns. Read your post on Glenbryn Drive. I think that makes two of us old Drive residents on this Forum now. 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 31, 2013, 12:05:58 PM
Barry that would be 1943 mate so I've just topped the hill at 70yrs old and ALL the rest is downhill LOL  >:D and welcome Charlie and I didn't know that about old Cartcart   the doggies eh LOL ... he must not have been much good with the betting seeing he stayed a teacher just as well none of us paid any attention in his maths classes  :o

Cheers, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on November 21, 2013, 09:14:54 AM
Here's another thread that has gone quiet. OK...Can anyone recall the school dinners at Everton? Does anyone remember the " new " canteen that w as built up the road a bit in the early 50s?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on November 21, 2013, 06:16:31 PM
Yes I do used to come out the back door of the school and walk up to have dinner,, late 50's early 60's loved the puddings still to this day make jam and coconut sponge with custard my grandkids love it. :buck2: Liz17   cheers..
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on November 22, 2013, 01:12:30 PM
Hi Peaser and Liz   sorry I have not been in here recently but it's been full on here what with my son's wedding and working at my daughter's new house I hav'nt had time to scratch me self  :). No I can't say I do remember the canteen Peaser and I'm almost positive I brought my lunches with me school ?  ( Ain't ole age grand   One of these days I'll even forget why I'm on here LOL )  ???

Cheers, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on December 22, 2013, 01:22:30 AM
To ALL the folks who have posted anything in this my thread I just want to Wish you ALL the Very Best for Christmas and hope you have a Wonderful New Year's Eve and that 2014 brings you nothing but happy, healthy times and thanks for being a part of this thread :)

Cheers for now and I hope we can get together again soon with maybe some more peeps posting either about Everton School, Wheatfield or this area :)

Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on December 22, 2013, 01:38:20 AM
Same to you Rob1943. Stay in the shade.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: liz17 on December 22, 2013, 08:10:15 AM
A Healthy Happy New Year to ALL.. :-* .Nothing but shade here lol.. Liz
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theengineer on December 23, 2013, 04:19:51 PM
Happy Christmas to all my old school friends from the 40's ::)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Dusan on January 09, 2014, 07:40:00 PM
I attended Everton School, and lived on Woodvale Parade. a past pupil "Jim Morrison" from Alliance
Ave. has written a book "from the hills to the Gantries" about his Everton days. He now lives in Australia, but if you can read a copy online, or get your hands on this book, you will enjoy it. Mr McCullough was the music teacher, and entered promising pupils in the Belfast Festival very year.My brothers attended Forth River, Wheatfield and Model schools. We have all emigrated to Canada and Australia, but will never lose the Belfast " vibe"
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 10, 2014, 03:52:01 AM
Hello and a big welcome Duson to the thread   thank you so much for that info on the book I will certainly try to find it online it should be quite an interesting read :).   I am also in Australia and maybe I will find it here along with it's writer !

Cheers for now,
Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: glenb on January 10, 2014, 08:15:54 PM
Interesting, there's a book called "between the mountains and the gantries" also, by a Will Morrison. It's about N.Ireland after WW2 I believe
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 11, 2014, 06:02:42 AM
Thanks Glenb I will try for both names  
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: glenb on January 11, 2014, 04:33:57 PM
The book I mention is available in Amazon for a few pounds
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 12, 2014, 05:13:48 AM
Hi Everton gang. Does anyone remember my sister Sandra Patterson?  She went to  Everton from St Marks Primary in Ligoniel around 1954 - that would have made her 11 and she left when she was 14 or 15 which would have been about 1957-58?  She had a friend from Oakley Street called Sandra Rogers.  She used to talk about one of the male teachers who was always throwing chalk and dusters - can't remember his name but I'm sure he was quite heavy set.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 12, 2014, 05:15:00 AM
Whoops a name for that teacher has just popped into my head - Mr Skelly??
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 12, 2014, 05:27:01 AM
I went to Wheatfield Primary - 1956. Teachers I remember were Mr O'Dell and My Boyd - think he was head master.  We lived in Glenbank Drive - 'at the turn of the road'  Tried to add an old school picture from Wheatfield but no upload facility so I'm lost.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 12, 2014, 05:50:20 AM
Hi Joanie, a big welcome to this thread and do you know what I do recall that name ... Sandra Patterson in fact if my wee dying grey cells serve me right I think we may have been in classes together !  ( Please ask her if she remembers a Bobby Norton ? ). and yes it was Mr Skelly who was an expert in throwing chalk bits at the right person even though he facing the blackboard !

Lovely that you popped in :)

Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 12, 2014, 05:54:36 AM
Joanie as you can see in past posts I also went to Wheatfield Primary around that time so have a look at the photo's posted here and see if you can remember any one and btw you need to use something like TinyPics web site to post photo's into this program OK !

Cheers for now,

Rob :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 12, 2014, 06:05:55 AM
Thanks for responding Rob. I'm in Canada but usually call Sandra on Sundays so will ask her. She lives in Scotland now, left Belfast in the late 70's. I'll google TinyPics and see if I can get my picture on. It will be day time with you but early morning here, just after 1am so time to put this laptop away :-)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 04:03:32 AM
Rob my sister Sandra Patterson remembers you well. I spoke to her today and spoke about the teachers etc.  Brought back loads of memories. She sends her best.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 04:05:08 AM
Wheatfield Primary School. P2 or P3 so would have been 1956-1957. (http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/ra1zih.jpg)[/img]
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 04:09:44 AM
(http://www.belfastforum.co.uk/[IMG]http://i43.tinypic.com/ra1zih.jpg)[/img]  Trying to add a picture but struggling here :-) Used TinyPic as you suggested Rob and copied the forum link but  
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 13, 2014, 05:36:15 AM
Hi Joanie thanks on the news from Sandra as I think I had a crush on her back then :) but never held any hope as a wee thin dork with government supplied black rimmed glasses I was'nt what one could call worthy LOL  :o   Now with your photo's thru TinyPics what I find works is firstly to reduce the size of the original down to email size then upload it into TinyPics then just highlight the forum code by left clicking on it then open the reply message to the thread and press the Control key + the V key and that should place the code in the body of the message then press Enter to bring cursor down to new line and type what you want !  It's best to Preview your message first to see if it will show what you want it to !

Keep trying you will get it but if not other people have posted other web sites that work for photo's

Cheers, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 01:28:57 PM
(http://i40.tinypic.com/ibmkv5.jpg)

Managed it at last Rob lol

1956 OR 1957.  Wheatfield Primary School.  Anyone recognise the kids in the picture?  We were all very well behaved as you can see. lol
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: chi on January 13, 2014, 02:37:04 PM
(http://i40.tinypic.com/ibmkv5.jpg)

Managed it at last Rob lol

1956 OR 1957.  Wheatfield Primary School.  Anyone recognise the kids in the picture?  We were all very well behaved as you can see. lol

What a beautiful picture O0
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 03:21:10 PM
I'm the wee shy one in the back row with my head tilted.  Still tilt it today when getting my pic taken :-)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2uidea9.jpg)

Really enjoying this thread. Happy memories.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: chi on January 13, 2014, 03:48:10 PM
I'm the wee shy one in the back row with my head tilted.  Still tilt it today when getting my pic taken :-)
(http://i44.tinypic.com/2uidea9.jpg)

Really enjoying this thread. Happy memories.

That little tilt and smile haven't changed O0

Have you been able to stay in
touch with any one in the photo? :read:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 05:17:17 PM
No Chi I haven't. I left Belfast in 1970 for Scotland but when I left Wheatfield I went to the Model. There was only one girl in my class came with me - Elizabeth Haddock. We kept in touch for a couple of years but that was it.  I think a lot of the kids in my class went on to Everton.   I met up with one of my teachers years later - in the 80's - a Mr O'Dell.  We had lunch and talked about the 'auld days'  I'm in Canada now but am going back to Scotland in March.  I still have a lot of friends in Belfast from my time working in the telephone exchange in Cromic Street so will get over to Belfast to see them.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: harrydunn on January 13, 2014, 05:36:40 PM
R(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l258/harrydunn_2006/untitled-1.jpg) (http://s98.photobucket.com/user/harrydunn_2006/media/untitled-1.jpg.html)emoved a few wrinkles
 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 06:58:03 PM
Thank you Harry, looks as good as new.  I posted it on Friends Reunited on the Wheatfield page years ago and now they add 'buy' to any pictures you post!!  I tried to save it from my page there to my laptop to allow me to upload it here but couldn't do it so had to print page and copy on to PowerPoint then save as a picture along with the 'buy' tab lol  Crazy you can't take your own pictures back from that site.  Anyway thanks again.  Maybe you could smooth out some of me now lol
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 07:02:49 PM
For anyone who is interested I came across a great thread by people from Ligoniel, Crumlin Road and Ballysillan.  I recognised loads of names and there are plenty of suscribers who went to St Marks, Wheatfield, Everton and St Gabs. Just search under Ligoniel.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: harrydunn on January 13, 2014, 07:48:43 PM
(http://i98.photobucket.com/albums/l258/harrydunn_2006/untitled-2.jpg) (http://)
How's that
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Joanie Patterson on January 13, 2014, 11:15:31 PM
For anyone who is interested I came across a great thread by people from Ligoniel, Crumlin Road and Ballysillan.  I recognised loads of names and there are plenty of suscribers who went to St Marks, Wheatfield, Everton and St Gabs. Just search under Ligoniel.

Harry that's great - the picture is perfect. When I said you could maybe smooth me out I was meaning me in person at this age - not the pic. It was a wee joke :-)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 14, 2014, 08:29:17 AM
Awesome photo Joanie but I think I might have been either a year or two ahead of you still it's good to see wee girls from back then :)

Cheers, Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: DJ on January 15, 2014, 11:06:44 PM
Joanie I've sent you a PM
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on January 18, 2014, 02:38:10 AM
I went to Everton from St. Marks , and was there from 1960 till 1964. Just before one of the summer holidays the Belfast Telegraph sent a reporter and a photographer to take pictures of the pupils charging out the front door celebrating the end of school and the beginning of summer holidays. I was one of the ones picked to act out this charge! I have been trying to a copy of this photo for YEARS and despite 2 e-mails to the Tele they have not responded. As I live in Canada it is a bit difficult to stop in to their offices. Unfortunately I am not sure of the year it happened. Does anyone know where or who I can get in touch with?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 20, 2014, 05:13:26 AM
Udini I am sorry to hear your having this problem and I trust someone either in the forum or in this thread will be of some help   As I am in Australia then I'm afraid I am in the same position as yourself   the only other suggestion I could offer you is that you place the same request in the General thread for more folks to respond :)

Cheers for now,
Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: a3a526w8 on March 11, 2014, 07:17:50 PM
Glenb, thanks for mentioning the book. I'm the author, went to Everton from 1939 to 1947. Does anyone from those years remember Mr. Copeland? WillM
Title: Re: Everton SchoolSHE WAS MISS LAMONT
Post by: dorisdickson970 on April 26, 2014, 01:33:33 PM
Hi Liz17,The music teacher was Miss McCullough. Don"t know if I got the spelling right! Rob,Mr Cathwright taught Maths.I left Everton in 62 . I loved school and had a wee cry the day I left.I remember Miss Hall was the cookery teacher and there was Mr Smith who taught Geography, Mr Redpath,Miss Morrow,Miss Grant who became Mrs Jordon when she married,she was the worst teacher !! Always kept me in after school for one thing or another !I hated gym days having to wear those horrible navy blue knickers out on the playing fields with all the boys having a good geek at us !!!  Mr Keers was the Head Master! Anyone remember his secretary"s name?  Small blond and had a big bust :o  Nella..
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 15, 2014, 08:47:45 AM
Hi and thanks Doris now we have a name for those busts LOL  .. allways good to get info and I hope more folks or more stories come into this thread as I'm sure there is a lot more Evertonians out there so spread the word and lets see :)

I'm just back from Tasmania where I did lots of walks and lots of wine drinking and eating AND had me 71st birthday     all in all a fantastic time  :D

Best regards to you ALL, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton SchoolSHE WAS MISS LAMONT
Post by: dorisdickson970 on May 30, 2014, 07:13:50 PM
Welcome Thefiestadancer sorry but I don't recall a Duke McCaullough but I was in the School Choir for a few years and we traveled to England and won a Prize in a School's Choir meet but that would have been perhaps 1955/56 cause I remember so well that my voice broke and I was politely asked to leave the choir until the vocal chords settled LOL  :o

MMcM the welcome was my pleasure and anything folks can add to this thread is also so welcomed as that's the whole reason for these threads    sharing and prompting the ole grey cells into remembering some great time's  ::) I wish I could remember a lot more names of fellow classroom friends back then but sadly a lot of it is a blank now  :'(

Cheers for now, Rob  :preved:
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: dorisdickson970 on May 30, 2014, 07:31:39 PM
nt to everton  from  1959 till 1963  one of are teachers wae ken mc camdon i have very  different memories as i  was ciassed  as mill fodder  because  my mum was a  widow  taik about discrinmtion  in every way  iwas one  of  the lucky ones  my mum was great as well as hard working  she done agreat job  and me and my sister and brothers  had a great role modlel in our lives
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Eve62 on June 13, 2014, 03:14:56 PM
Hi. went  to everton secordary school for girls. Sept 1964-1968. Can also remember one teacher Miss York but not what she taught. Afew names that come to mind that where in same class as me is Elma Tate, Hazel Mc Conaghie, and there was 2 Annes. 1  from Siverstream and the othe from about Snugville Street I think. Another person has just came to mind Lorna, think her was the minister at the church on Ardoyne Road. :)       Roberta Bolton nee Brown

I also went to Everton and remember all those names. I was there from the first year it became a girls only school until I left in 1970.  I was speaking to Elma years ago as our paths crossed at work .  She hadnt changed a bit, still lovely strawberry blonde hair. 

Eve
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 14, 2014, 02:01:07 PM
Hello Eve, thanks for joining in here and as I have said before I wish I had have been at Everton when it became an ALL girls school but then again I don't think the skirts would have suit me   LOL sorry just my warped sense of humour !

Cheers for now, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 02, 2014, 09:45:46 PM
I have just found this link and have loved reading it. I only had one term at Everton from September 1958 until the Christmas when I left to move to England. The names of the teachers are so familiar. Mr Copeland Mr Cathcart(the scariest teacher ever) Miss Grant and Miss McCullogh. As far as I remember There was a one way system to get from one class to another. Does anyone remember that.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 05, 2014, 10:53:06 AM
Hi and a big Welcome Harry,  Yes I do recall we were only allowed to go one way around the hallway even if the next class was to your left when you came out of one classroom you still had to turn right and go ALL the way around to reach the room right next to where you left from LOL.  Even the courtyard inside was one way only !!

If my memory serves me right there was a back entrance that I use to leave from as it was closest to Cranbrook Gardens where I lived but at start of each day we had to line up in the large play area where the girls use to play netball and then each age grouped class would march off to the entrance that was closest to Woodvale Parade then into our first classroom !

Crey cells are slowly dying but with threads and people like you there is hope for memories to linger on a while longer :)

Cheers for now, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 05, 2014, 07:27:48 PM
Thanks for the welcome Rob1943. I lived in Glenbryn Park and it was no distance at all to Everton. I remember we went in a back way, but not exactly where. It was all so much bigger than we were used to, coming from Wheatfield, where we spent all our time in one classroom, with one teacher.
Some of the names of girls in my class were Norma Knox, Jean Ogilby, Jacqueline  Prentice, and Josephine Ferguson. Ring any bells with anyone?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 05, 2014, 09:45:15 PM
Norma Knox's name is familiar. I knew a bloke called Roy Knox from...Berwick, or one of the Glenbryns further up from the Park..not the Drive. Turn left at the bottom of Glenbryn Park where it meets Berwick Road, then walk along until the road turns t the right...( memory from 50 years ago). I am pretty sure Roy had a younger sister called Norma. I might even have an old photo here, aken when we met up on the beach at Portrush one year back around 1953/54. Dressed in our fashionable beachwear of course.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 06, 2014, 04:15:39 PM
Peaser the Knox family lived on Alliance road just up from the Glenbryn turning, near where Roddy  lived. You are right. the older brother was Roy, then Norma then a younger sister. I can't remember her name. Linda rings a bell but that just might be a senior moment
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 07, 2014, 12:25:06 PM
Alliance Road...that's right homesick harry. I went to school with Roy, and yes I do have a picture of him, and his sister, and his parents and me and my parents at Portrush. I will get it posted here when I get a chance. I found Norma Knox on a site called Friends Re-United some time ago. Have you tried that one?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 07, 2014, 06:00:18 PM
Not yet Peaser. Will have to try. Will be most interested if you can post the photo of the Knox family and yours
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 12, 2014, 01:05:48 PM
Peaser I had knitted bath wear and OMG you should have seen them when they got wet LOL thankfully they were so tight around my waist they just hung down below my knees  :o

I will also look forward to that photo as we always had our yearly hoildays in Portrush when Dad would hire a car and we stayed in one of those big boarding houses on the esplanade near the beach.  ( I use to sail a toy boat in a large round pond on the walkway and at times there was Irish Dancers doing jigs on a wooden platform they erected for them )

Cheers, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 12, 2014, 01:21:06 PM
Sounds like my holidays Rob 1943...right down to the knitted bathers. I have a couple of classic photos of a group of us young lads at the beach around 1950-52, the bathers soaked and hanging round us. Not comfortable.  We stayed in the Portrush boarding houses but without the car. There were routines for how we should spend the days. Breakfast, morning walks over the dunes, lunch, then down to the West Strand i the afternoon, and yes, sailing boats in the wading pool near the dance hall...( I've forgotten its name for the moment...)...began with an A I think.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 13, 2014, 07:45:49 PM
we used to go to Groomsport for the day on coaches with Sunday school. We were given a bag with a sandwich and a bun for our lunch. Can anyone else remember that. On one occasion we went to Portrush but we didn't seem to be there long. Games on the sand and a paddle is what I recall. We went to Portrush about 5 years ago and I had forgotten it. Had not been there for 50 years so it was hardly surprising!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: tboy on August 13, 2014, 08:33:11 PM
we used to go to Groomsport for the day on coaches with Sunday school. We were given a bag with a sandwich and a bun for our lunch. Can anyone else remember that. On one occasion we went to Portrush but we didn't seem to be there long. Games on the sand and a paddle is what I recall. We went to Portrush about 5 years ago and I had forgotten it. Had not been there for 50 years so it was hardly surprising!
Done it ;) a pals dad and his mate took a bunch of us from the street up to Portrush, as you say we were only there and back and I still had to deliver those 75 'Tellies'   the craic  was always 'go anywhere' as long as you are back for tea at six. :(
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on August 13, 2014, 09:58:13 PM
Hi.just found this link and I went to Everton from 1945_1955.teachers remembered surnames only_keers, Barnes,cathcart,smith,orr,Reid,kenning,straight and my favourite Mr Odell a Londoner who supported arsenal for his sins.I came from farringdon gardens and reading all the names on these posts brings back a lot of memories.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 13, 2014, 10:08:13 PM
Hi Browner, yes...Mr O'Dell...Peter O'Dell...was a great teacher. You'll find a few posts about him on the Wheatfield School threads here. I found him a few years ago via Friends United and we exchanged emails on and off for about a year. He said he had some medical problems, and his eyesight was going. I am certain he he has passed on now.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 13, 2014, 10:09:19 PM
Homesick Harry...Yes...I went to a few excursions with Woodvale church. Always chaos.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 13, 2014, 10:10:34 PM
Hi tboy....so it was you delivering the Teles all those years ago. Did you do Glenbryn?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 14, 2014, 09:44:28 PM
tboy did you live in Glenbryn Park?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on August 15, 2014, 11:01:06 AM
Thanks leader for the reply,I'm not surprised about Mr.Odell as I'm 74 now and would say he would have been at least 20yrs older than me.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on August 15, 2014, 11:03:10 AM
Sorry leader don't know were leader came from.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 15, 2014, 11:55:37 AM
Sorry browner lost control of my fingers. Every so often I hit the wrong keys and it's total confusion. Old age is creeping up.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on August 15, 2014, 08:30:32 PM
Why homesick harry? Were are you now?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 15, 2014, 09:48:59 PM
Living now in Cornwall, and loving it. People are friendly and caring just like Belfast. Have been here 18 years!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 15, 2014, 09:58:37 PM
Train to London, plane to Belfast, end of homesickness.
Plane to London, train to Cornwall, no more homesickness.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 16, 2014, 12:33:21 PM
lived in a lot of places and always missed Belfast. Moved to Cornwall and it is a second home. If I won the lottery I'd have a home in both places. Next best thing is talking on these links!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on August 16, 2014, 01:54:29 PM
Hi Rob/Peaser  just wondered if the names Ernie or Harry Maginnes rang any bells.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 16, 2014, 10:33:35 PM
Hi asp1
Sorry, those names don't ring any bells with me.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 17, 2014, 08:53:27 AM
Hi a big welcome Browner and no sorry asp1 I also don't recall those names but with my grey cells that don't really mean much LOL it's so great to see that people are still finding this thread and supporting it so Thanks to you ALL I hope everyone gets a little something out of it and memories are so rewarding so it's great to share them  ;)

Cheers ALL,
Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 17, 2014, 04:37:30 PM
Rob1943 are you still in Belfast? I think it's great that so many people are interested in keeping memories going. Keep it up everyone!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 17, 2014, 10:20:59 PM
I was actually only at Everton for a year when I started school before transferring to Wheatfield when it was built. But I still recall many of the teacher names from Everton. Everton when I went there in 1950 was
overstocked with students.Kids everywhere. The school iron fencing had been removed during the war and so we were left with those low walls which were great for sitting on as there was nowhere else to sit in the playground...no grass..., and  the low walls were great for jumping over. Across the road in one of the houses was a little hole in the wall shop that sold fresh baps...penny baps...which were very popular.
A place rarely mentioned on this thread is the " Enny" properly known as the NFS...or National Fire Service I think. It was a big wooded area next to the school, and I think that at one time it was owned by the NFS. It was a great playground...to me at the ages of 5-9 it was like Sherwood Forest. Many happy days playing in the Enny.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 18, 2014, 06:42:03 AM
found another link under Wheatfield school choir. I was in the choir in the late 1950s. There is a photo posted but it is a bit after my time. Mr Boyd is on it but I don.t recognise the teacher. The link has been dormant for some time, but give it a go and see what happens!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 18, 2014, 01:47:06 PM
Hello Harry no mate my family left Belfast in 1959 and we came to Melbourne, Australia where I am still funny you should mention the choir as I was in the Everton School one and we actually got picked to go to London on a School Choir Competion and it was right at the time my voice started to break    needless to say I did'nt last much longer in the choir after that LOL !   ( Besides girls became a much more hobby than singing  ::)

Peaser those penny baps sure made a mess of the school blazers LOL

Cheers, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 18, 2014, 02:01:55 PM
Crumbs everywhere.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 18, 2014, 07:43:53 PM
you must like Australia to have stayed all this time, Rob1943. We have family in Sherpparton  and Adelaide, and a few places that don't seem to be on the map! Our cousin's son is Sid Brisbane. Would love to go and see Australia but my husband will not fly. Will just have to continue reading the travel books.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rose1950 on August 19, 2014, 08:03:28 PM
I have just found this  website I went to Everton school from1961 1965 I have recognised a lot of the teachers  some before my time   I can remember a few more teachers that haven't been mentioned most of the people on this site where at this school either 50s or 70s there doesn't seem to be many in my era maybe some more will join in the discussion  :) :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 19, 2014, 09:57:04 PM
Hi Rose 1950. I'm a newbie myself. and it's great meeting people who know what you are talking about. Did you live near the school. I lived in Glenbryn Park and went to Wheatfield before I went to Everton.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rose1950 on August 19, 2014, 10:56:58 PM
Hi homesick Harry I didn't go to wheatfield primary I went to riddell memorial at Malvern st  shankill rd
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 20, 2014, 08:39:58 AM
Hi and a big welcome to you Rose1950 good of you to drop in and there are some fine folks here enjoying exercising our wee grey cells trying to remember Everton and anything else about the area  ??? was it an all girls school then Rose as I left it in 1957 as a 14yr old to start work and then we left Belfast to come to Australia in 1959 ! 

Harry I'm ever so greatfull to my parents for the great deed they did for my sister and me in leaving their home and family and bringing us to Australia it's been wonderful and I would never live anywhere else  ;)

My son has got married to a American lady and as soon as he gets his Green Card from this end he will take off over to her in LA  . it will be a sad time but you can't hold your children back from what they want in their life :)   ( besides free rent in LA will be a bonus LOL  :D )

Cheers all.
Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on August 20, 2014, 07:35:36 PM
Thanks for answering Rob1943. Everyone I know that has settled in Australia all say the same thing. It sounds as if you are another. Can't be bad having a son moving to LA. Plenty of holidays!
My son lives in Shrewsbury, not nearly as exciting but it means the grandchildren are nearer.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: elibar on September 14, 2014, 05:11:17 AM
Hi. went  to everton secordary school for girls. Sept 1964-1968. Can also remember one teacher Miss York but not what she taught. Afew names that come to mind that where in same class as me is Elma Tate, Hazel Mc Conaghie, and there was 2 Annes. 1  from Siverstream and the othe from about Snugville Street I think. Another person has just came to mind Lorna, think her was the minister at the church on Ardoyne Road. :)       Roberta Bolton nee Brown

Miss York taught French. I was in your class. Elizabeth Crothers Barsoum

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on September 25, 2014, 07:42:46 AM
Hello and a big welcome to you elibar I hope you enjoy your visits and please make yourself at home here there are lovely folks in this thread and we share as much as we can either about Everton days Wheatfield days or just our lives in general :)

Cheers for now,

Rob  ;) (Sorry foks I hav'nt been on lately but have been enjoying the sun up North for some weeks and now all suntanned and back again to Victoria and it's rain LOL )
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on September 25, 2014, 08:12:43 PM
Hi Rob1943. Glad you enjoyed your few weeks in the sun. Here in Cornwall we have had a beautiful spring and summer, and at the moment the harvest is being gathered. Big yields in everything. Usually, the only thing there is plenty of is rain!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rose anna on September 30, 2014, 06:02:38 PM
Remember Everton School very well. Miss Mccullough taught music and if you did anything in class she played ba ba black sheep on your hands with the ruler. But she was a lovely singer and teacher. She encouraged my brother with his flute playing and me with the singing. My Mum went down and gave Mrs Jordan a right slap for hitting me the first day i was back at school after being off ill for three months. Necer went into her class again. Mr Redpath taught me typing which has come in handy. Miss Hall taught us to make soup can remember taking ingredients down including meat and a bone and was not allowed to use it. My dad was shocked there was no meat in it! However the cookery lessons did give us the basics. Anyone remember the flat just off the kitchen?. PE was the bain of my life playing hockey in navt blue knickers. It was bad enough the lads from St Gabriels watching but grown men would watch too. We made PE skirts in 2nd year. Meantime it was big navy blue knickers with elastic in the legs! Lol
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on September 30, 2014, 10:38:47 PM
I remember the flat off Miss Hall's room and the blonde streak at the front of her hair.  I was in Mrs Campbell's class for history Mrs Doolan for French (she drove a green mini) and Mr Whitton for maths.   Many memories good and bad
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on September 30, 2014, 11:03:13 PM
I have to say I don't have any happy memories of Everton. I went there in 1950 and left in 1951 to go to Wheatfield. In 1950 Everton was overcrowded and badly in need of repair. The playground was a battleground. The teachers I knew were bad tempered and vicious. You could say that five years after the war many of these teachers could have had shattered nerves from what they had lived through...a lot of the male teachers would have served in the forces. Going to Wheatfield was, at first, like going to another country after Everton. But we had our share of angry teachers at Wheatfield too...just that they got angry in better classrooms.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RSL on October 01, 2014, 01:15:09 AM
Hi Rose anna,

It was good to hear your memories of Everton.
There is a picture of the Girl's hockey team on page 6 of this thread.
You may recognise some of the girls.It would be good to put some more names
to the faces. ??? :) .
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: elibar on October 01, 2014, 03:05:51 AM
(http://i40.tinypic.com/ibmkv5.jpg)

Managed it at last Rob lol

1956 OR 1957.  Wheatfield Primary School.  Anyone recognise the kids in the picture?  We were all very well behaved as you can see. lol
Geraldine Davies is in the front row, 2nd to the right.  I think I see Heather McConnell as well.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on October 01, 2014, 03:36:39 AM
Thanks for the pic Elibar. There are a few familiar faces there but for me it is likely that they would be the younger sisters of girls who were in my class. I left Wheatfield in1956 after the 11 plus.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rose anna on October 01, 2014, 06:11:27 AM
Everton School was ok until it was made into an all girls school. The bullies from the shankill certainly were well versed in the bullying tactics.One girl stands out as the devil incarnate. Her name was Marlene and she had eyes that had very little colour in them.when it was a mixed school i was always in the top 3 in exams. Due mostly to the relentless bullying i left Everton with no qualifications. However sometimes you do not have to do anything to these kind of people. They do it to themselves. I seen her on the shankill years later and she was a mess. Still stuck in the same old rut. I did a law degree and have been all over the world. I ave a lot of memories of Everton very few of them happy. As for Miss Richardson the headmistress she knew what was going on and did nothing. Invictus Maneo!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 06, 2014, 01:31:57 PM
Rose anna I'm very glad you have visited the thread but I'm saddened to hear your time at Everton was not a good one still ALL these tales and facts help make this thread interesting and that's what it's all about eh :)  Elibar I'm glad you got to post your photo well done and it's a pity these wee girls are so young as I was older when I went there and ohhh soo innocent  :D lol ( I made up for it later in life ).

I'm sure some folks will come back with a few names and in fact I think the girl 3rd from right at the back has been on here I'll review the other posts to see !

Thanks Harry we really enjoyed the sunny break and Cornwall is one of our favourite spots   we stayed in Polperro a few years back over looking the harbour and dined in a great wee local pub there and in Looe :)

Cheers ALL and thanks for the postings
Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on October 06, 2014, 01:36:21 PM
Elibar I'm such a dum dum it was Joanie Patterson herself LOL geeezzz I am getting old  :o
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on October 06, 2014, 01:46:55 PM
Rose Anna...your memories of Everton would not be dissimilar to the memories of many others in many other schools in those days....and no doubt in all the years since. You said " still stuck in the same old rut".. That's it...kind of describes Northern Ireland doesn't it.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rose anna on October 07, 2014, 08:13:36 AM
Hi Peaser and Rob 1943.Thank you for the replies. As i said Everton school changed very much for the worse when it became all girls. The bullies were so bad i was not surprised to hear some of their "career" choices once the troubles started!! Miss Mcullough was a very positive influence as she encouraged me with the singing which ive kept up.As i said ive been all over the world and i still look reasonable lol.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Eve62 on October 22, 2014, 07:26:53 PM
Interestingly I saw Joan McCollough today, she looks exactly the same except her once reddish hair is now grey !  Think I and my classmates must have been the more fortunate Rose Anna, as I joined as a first year the year Everton became all girls, under the leadership of Gladys Richardson.  I use the term lightly as she possesed little or no leadership skills, however we were privileged to have some amazing teachers who encouraged and inspired us to go on and be whatever we wanted .

Amongst my fellow pupils, there are now midwives, bank managers, teachers, nurses PA's , business women to name but a few.  Not bad considering we came from working class area's, though quite a few in my first year class G1 had passed what was then the 11 plus.

I was sad to read you were the victim of bullying, obviously I was one of the lucky ones. I loved my six years at Everton, went on to sixth form and had an all round excellent education.

I began training as a nurse in 1970, only retiring last year from the NHS.

I have enjoyed reading these posts and taking a trip down memory lane
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on October 22, 2014, 07:58:55 PM
I was in form 2A when it was an all girls school I loved Everton teachers and friends best days
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: homesick harry on October 22, 2014, 08:14:32 PM
When were you at Everton Altoni? I went  there in September 1958 and although I was only there for a short time I enjoyed it and still have fond memories.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on October 22, 2014, 08:27:32 PM
homesick harry

I left Everton 1967 so I was there for 5 years
teachers where great
loved p e miss turkington teacher
miss Richardson was principal
also miss mc cullough miss Dinnen miss o neill
and Mrs Ferguson
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on October 23, 2014, 09:21:23 PM
Altoni, I left in 1969 I wonder if the names Phyliss Mulholland or Anne Murray ring any bells with you.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on October 24, 2014, 06:50:58 PM
asp1

the names don't ring a bell our class I remember

Carol Elliott
Elizabeth Cummings
Christine Goodwin
sandra mc niece
Alice Kennedy
Sharon Vance
doloris Silo
Roberta Radcliffe
Lynda Page
Helen Mc Ateer
Rebecca Smyth
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: jmac on October 24, 2014, 09:28:07 PM
asp1

the names don't ring a bell our class I remember

Carol Elliott
Elizabeth Cummings
Christine Goodwin
sandra mc niece
Alice Kennedy
Sharon Vance
doloris Silo
Roberta Radcliffe
Lynda Page
Helen Mc Ateer
Rebecca Smyth
Hi altoni, I knew Christine Goodwin very well, she lived just up the street from me and I used to run about with her and her brothers and sisters, I had not seen her for years,
then sadly, I heard that she had died.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on October 24, 2014, 09:47:25 PM
jmac

we all where in Everton at the same time it's when you leave
everyone goes their separate ways
it's different now for kids who have emails etc
in Everton we did nt even have a house phone
so sad about christine she was a lively girl

altoni
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on November 04, 2014, 12:22:13 PM
Hello and welcome Eve62, Altoni and Jmac it's wonderful of you ALL to join in this thread and add your something special about Everton so that everyone here can join in and enjoy the memories and stories :)  Please accept my apology for not being in here lately but I've been busy helping my son prepare to move over to LA !

I really love reading all of your additions and it's so awarding when you see folks connect again after so many years and that's the beauty of a Forum such as this    keep it going peeps :)

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on November 04, 2014, 02:56:43 PM
rob1943

hi yes it's great to read all the stories about Everton

but find that no one in all my classes

have not found this site

maybe they have all moved away

I enjoy the site
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on November 09, 2014, 11:09:19 AM
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2kqpu.jpg)

Let's see if this works    Time for a wee laugh at my expense  ;) if this photo gets posted here then it will show my School Photo of 1954 at Wheatfield School during the period we were all sent up there while Everton had some work done to it and the "DORK" five in from the top row is me  ??? LOL

Cheers ALL,

Rob
Rob....I've only just seen this photo of your 1954 visit to Wheatfield. I was there then and I know you've seen the photos I've posted on the Wheatfield pages. I recognise several of the guys in your class including yourself.  The bloke on the right in the second row looks very familiar.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on November 12, 2014, 12:40:31 PM
Hi Peaser I'm so sorry but I honestly can not remember any of the guys in the photo except maybe the blond boy sitting on the right side front who I think was Peter Smith and if it is then it was his Dad that had the barber shop at the Ardoyne Shopping just down from Everton School ?

Hope your doing well mate and enjoying life to the fullest  ;)

Cheers, Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on November 12, 2014, 12:53:00 PM
I think those years must have left vivid imprints of the people and events we experienced. Just about all of the guys in that photo seem familiar to me now that I have looked at them for some time. Little snippets of memory come back about when and how I might have met these blokes...but obviously all at Wheatfield.
I suppose our clothes all followed a style in those days....thrown together would be a good term I think. Of course we are all the sophisticated boys these days.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: arnie222 on November 22, 2014, 01:44:39 AM
Hello ALL in Belfast Forum,

I'm just wondering if any folks out there went to Everton Primary which then became Everton Secondary and I believe afterwards it became a Girls only school ?  I'm talking about back in the 50's as I left there in 1957 as a 14yr old and started my first job as a grocery home delivery boy for a grocery store which was up the top end of Woodville Parade.

Some teacher names I recall back then were :  Mr. Cathcart ( I think he was our Religion Teacher ) and Miss Fanny Freeburn ( I think she was our English Teacher ) and Mr. Barnes ( who I know was our Maths Teacher ). Sorry but my wee old grey cells are burning out fast but I also remember when Everton was having some renovations done we were ALL sent up to Wheatfield School.

Anyhow, I would be thrilled if anyone of that era could add anything to this thread :)

Thanks and Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on November 22, 2014, 09:01:22 AM
Hello Arnie 222...I couldn't find a message from you there...although the quote from Rob was there. You'll need to post your question again. Look forward to reading what you say.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theengineer on November 22, 2014, 07:00:54 PM
Hi All, I was born in 1942 attended Everton (I guess) from 1947 to 1950 and the Forthriver Primary.
I wonder if anyone has photographs from that period?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on November 23, 2014, 07:36:24 AM
Hello theengineer and welcome I'll have to have another wee search in my Mum's box of old photo's to see if I have any older school pics as I was there during most of those years as well :)  Hopefully someone else in the thread may have some old ones as well and would be willing to share with us all :)

Arnie222 welcome as well and sorry but there was no message as peaser points out but please join in again and offer any memories you may have of either Everton or Wheatfield days :)

Cheers for now, Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on December 19, 2014, 06:08:19 AM
To ALL who have visited and contributed to this thread I thank you and to those who have visited for a read I also thank you but most of all I want to Wish everyone A Very Merry Christmas and the Safest and most Wonderful of New Year ahead :)

May ALL you would wish for yourself and your loved ones come true and I look forward to sharing with you ALL again in 2015  :P

Cheers for now,

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Altoni on December 20, 2014, 01:30:29 PM
hi everyone

best days where spent in Everton secondary left

1967. miss Richardson was principal

altoni :o
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on December 21, 2014, 12:59:06 PM
Rob1943
 
I just want to Thank you for starting this post. It has brought back a few memories and I just wish that some of my old schoolmates from 1960-1964 where on here. I left Belfast in 1977 but have been out of contact with them since I left Everton, partly because I was from Ligoniel and the majority of them were from the Woodvale/Shankill area.
If they happen to find this post I would like to wish them, and all on here a Very Merry Christmas and a Prosperous 2015.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 18, 2015, 06:43:26 PM
Hi everyone I'm a newbie on this thread.went to everton 1945_1955 lived in farringdon GDS until 1971. Remember some of the teachers mentioned,keers,cathcart,Toney, barnes,orr,Reid,McCullough, straight to name a few. Re._the teacher with the war wound, it da money he was caught with shrapnel when a shell exploded close to him.  He had a steel plate inserted in his head and a wooden leg. He did as someone said walk with a limp and uncontrollably opened and closed his mouth mainly when he was walking due to his injuries. Jack cathcart lived in Whitehead and when I was a big boy (13_14)lol he sent into the car tax office to get his car taxed and some of his friends cars. Anyway that's all from me for the moment hope to hear from some of my old school friends on this thread. Only thing is my age group are getting thin on the ground.
  John brown
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 19, 2015, 03:43:26 AM
My brother remembers that the teacher with the war wounds was Toney. My brother, Joe Shaw, would have been at Everton about the time you were there...maybe from 1944 until about 1952. We had cousins name of Shaw who lived in Velsheda Park...that was next to Farringdon wasn't it?

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 19, 2015, 03:44:34 AM
Hi everyone I'm a newbie on this thread.went to everton 1945_1955 lived in farringdon GDS until 1971. Remember some of the teachers mentioned,keers,cathcart,Toney, barnes,orr,Reid,McCullough, straight to name a few. Re._the teacher with the war wound, it da money he was caught with shrapnel when a shell exploded close to him.  He had a steel plate inserted in his head and a wooden leg. He did as someone said walk with a limp and uncontrollably opened and closed his mouth mainly when he was walking due to his injuries. Jack cathcart lived in Whitehead and when I was a big boy (13_14)lol he sent into the car tax office to get his car taxed and some of his friends cars. Anyway that's all from me for the moment hope to hear from some of my old school friends on this thread. Only thing is my age group are getting thin on the ground.
  John brown
Sorry Browner...that last message of mine was meant for you.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 19, 2015, 12:10:02 PM
Hi and welcome Browner it's great to see another Everton pupil and so glad you remember them teacher names ;)  I was there up till about 1957 then left at age 14 to work as a delivery boy for a grocery shop up Woodville Parade riding one of those small front wheeled BIG basket bikes taking folks groceries to their homes :(. It was bloody long hard days but ah well that's the past eh ?  I later worked in centre of Belfast as a assistant warehouse person at William Rey's Electrical which handled washing machines and fridges ( white goods I think they referred it to )

Anyhow, enough crapping on from me hope you stay and meet up with others from your days  
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 19, 2015, 01:30:37 PM
Rob...two books you might enjoy. One is called Paper Boy, and the other is called Bread Boy and both are written by a Belfast author Tony Macaulay. He writes about his time as a paper boy delivering the Tele, and his time as a Bread boy delivering for Ormo bakeries on  Saturdays. You can get both books on Kindle or try your local library. Fun reading.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 19, 2015, 05:58:42 PM
HI. Peaser I knew a couple of joe shaws but one came from cranbrook and one came from glenbryn.joe from glenbryn was a lot older than me the other one was a similar age, there was also billy shaw and the all worked in mackies are they the ones youre thinking of?  Anyway thanks for warm reception from everyone and I hope I will be able to exchange memories with a lot of you. JB
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: McNamee on January 19, 2015, 06:25:54 PM
My late husband went to Everton, maybe around 1945/46.  Lived in Velsheda Pafrk
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 19, 2015, 06:30:23 PM
What was his name? JB.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: McNamee on January 19, 2015, 06:47:39 PM
Charlie Clugston :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 19, 2015, 08:25:41 PM
HI. Peaser I knew a couple of joe shaws but one came from cranbrook and one came from glenbryn.joe from glenbryn was a lot older than me the other one was a similar age, there was also billy shaw and the all worked in mackies are they the ones youre thinking of?  Anyway thanks for warm reception from everyone and I hope I will be able to exchange memories with a lot of you. JB

Yes Browner  Joe Shaw from Glenbryn is my brother, and has lived in Australia for many years. Jim and Billy Shaw were our cousins, and yes, you're right it was Cranbrook Gardens where they lived.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 19, 2015, 08:29:09 PM
Hello again Browner. I just had a thought when you said the Joe Shaw you knew was a lot older than you. I think you're probably thinking of my father, not my brother. Dad's name was Joe, and he worked in Mackies .My brother would be roughly the same age as you I guess.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 19, 2015, 09:01:01 PM
Browner...there is a thread on Mackies on this Belfast Forum. Just type in Mackies in the search area on the top right of this page, You'll find quite a few photos of Mackies people there including my Dad, Joe Shaw.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 19, 2015, 10:58:40 PM
Charlie Clugston :)
[/quo.     Hi McNamee,  if its the same Charlie clugston did he play golf at massereene in antrim? If it was I knew him quite well and he was a very good friend of peter smlth who owned the barbers at ardoyne. Jb
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 20, 2015, 04:19:29 AM
Peter Smith from the barber at Ardoyne...was he a big fair haired bloke?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: McNamee on January 20, 2015, 07:52:22 AM
Yes Browner, same guy....Loved his golf.  Where is Peter Smyth now, last time I meet up with him was 10 years or so..
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 20, 2015, 05:53:08 PM
Peter Smith from the barber at Ardoyne...was he a big fair haired bloke?
.  Yes leader he was his father owned the shop and then peter took it over before he sold it later and bought a more upmarket place in church St in Belfast.  He had a brother called David who was much smaller than him.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 20, 2015, 05:56:24 PM
Sorry peaser  that last message was meant for you don't know were leader came from. Jb.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 20, 2015, 06:03:15 PM
Hi. McNamee  Peter now lives in islandmagee, I haven't spoke to him in about five years.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on January 20, 2015, 06:20:40 PM
Hi. Peaser. You're father was a gentleman worked with him in the development room (exp. No 1) for ten years were  Tommy Kelly was foreman.  He taught me a lot in that time and I'll never forget him.  I left in 1971 and as usual you loose touch with some great friends. I'm sure a lot of the outside erectors who follow this thread will know him and have a great word about him.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 20, 2015, 09:59:48 PM
Hi browner ...Many thanks for your words about my dad. He retired in 1975, and passed away in February 1977 a couple of weeks short of his 67th birthday. He was an outside erector for Mackies  for most of my growing up, and would be away for long stretches..I think he was in Greece for almost nine months. He never travelled by plane, always by boat, and train.  He worked in England, Scotland, France, Belguim, Yugoslavia, Norway, Germany, Austria, Holland, Greece, Italy, Rumania, and a few more that I've forgotten. I put a lot of photos of him and others up on the Mackie's pages of Belfast Forum a year or so ago.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 20, 2015, 10:11:23 PM
Browner...if you go to pages 361,362, and 363 of the Mackies pages on the Forum here you will see the photos I put up.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 21, 2015, 07:10:46 AM
Browner, what a small world when I first started up this thread I was asking if anyone could remember a boy I went to Everton with and that his Dad ran a barber shop in Ardoyne and his name was Peter Smith and now here are you referring to him   Wow.  If by any chance you get to speak to him would you please pass on my fond regards and remind him my name is Bobby Norton of Cranbrook Gardens it would so awesome to make contact after 50+ years ;)

Thanks peaser for those book titles mate I'll do a search for them this IS such good fun hope your ALL enjoying as much as I am please keep comments happening and invite as many folks that might add something to the thread even if it's only a snippet it's all worthwhile ;)

Cheers for now from hot hot Melbourne, Australia :(. Rob :o
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on January 21, 2015, 11:02:10 AM
Rob1943...here is a youtube link to the authot of Paper Boy, and Bread Boy reading from his books. His third book is " All Grown up Now"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M2pFDWYzoY
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on January 21, 2015, 03:59:12 PM
I was wondering if anyone here knows Billy Bryans or Billy Harvey. When I went to Everton 1960-1964 they were both in my classes. I lived in Ligoniel area and they were from the Woodvale. I lost touch when we left school and now I'm in Edmonton, Canada but would like to get in touch with them.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on January 22, 2015, 06:20:58 AM
Sorry udini those names don't ring any of my bells but mind you my bells have been out of tune for some time now LOL  ???  hopefully some one else might know them   when did Everton change to an ALL GIRL's school I thought it was early 60's ?

Hey peaser I looked up that YouTube link and it was so good to hear the Belfast accent as he read from his book ....thanks mate I'll check out those books  ;)

Cheers, Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RSL on January 22, 2015, 10:16:53 AM
Hi Udini,

I remember a 'Billy Bryans'from Everton.I don't know if he is the same one though.
He used to walk home from school with my sister,as far as the shops,past the Ballysillan Church and near O'Hara's bakery.I think his Aunt worked in the fish shop.My sister was just showing me a picture
she has of him, just a few weeks ago.Don't know where he is now as we left Belfast in the 1960's.
Some of her class mates from then were,Lilly Tully,Andrea Snoddy,Heather Hillis,Isobel ?Errol Hall.Only a few that I remember her mentioning.
I knew squeak Harvey(Trevor)don't know if he is related to the guy you mentioned.
It was such a long time ago!

Hope you find some of your class mates on here.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on January 22, 2015, 02:00:26 PM
Hi Udini,

I remember a 'Billy Bryans'from Everton.I don't know if he is the same one though.
He used to walk home from school with my sister,as far as the shops,past the Ballysillan Church and near O'Hara's bakery.I think his Aunt worked in the fish shop.My sister was just showing me a picture
she has of him, just a few weeks ago.Don't know where he is now as we left Belfast in the 1960's.
Some of her class mates from then were,Lilly Tully,Andrea Snoddy,Heather Hillis,Isobel ?Errol Hall.Only a few that I remember her mentioning.
I knew squeak Harvey(Trevor)don't know if he is related to the guy you mentioned.
It was such a long time ago!

Hope you find some of your class mates on here.
As far as I can remember Billy Bryans had a family member who owned/worked in the fish shop at the top of Legann Street beside the Dry Cleaners and the Vegetable/Produce shop. He would on occasion go up from school to stay at the shop before going home when the shop closed.
I knew Errol Hall, he lived in Oakley Street and we played football together. The other names don't ring any bells.I would like to see that photo if I could, maybe I could give you my Email address.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on January 22, 2015, 02:02:03 PM
Sorry udini those names don't ring any of my bells but mind you my bells have been out of tune for some time now LOL  ???  hopefully some one else might know them   when did Everton change to an ALL GIRL's school I thought it was early 60's ?

Hey peaser I looked up that YouTube link and it was so good to hear the Belfast accent as he read from his book ....thanks mate I'll check out those books  ;)

Cheers, Rob  :)
As I said I was at Everton from 1960-1964 and I think it was a year or two later when it changed to all girls.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on February 03, 2015, 02:39:30 PM
Hi I have enjoyed reading all the posts.I lived in glenbryn park  & went to Everton 44-54 went Belfast High at Glenravel st.i enjoyed playing in the nfs.mr Barnes was a great teacher .i remember Mr Wilson was the music teacher and our choir won the competition & went to London .We also had verse speaking choirs.I used to go to Delaneys to get Woodbines for my granda who lived in Mountainview beside the fire station.Robert Wilson was in my class.He & Kirk Graham were good singers.Robert is the director of the Donaghadee male voice choir.Im in Ontario and go on YouTube to hear his choir.Makes me homesick
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on February 04, 2015, 02:05:56 AM
Hello & Welcome Acton, lovely of you to visit and so nice to see another Evertonian ;).  As I have mentioned in here before I sang in the school choir and we in fact went to London after winning a inter-school competion so who knows we may have known each other back then  ;)

I'm sure you will meet up with some old buddies in here and it's always wonderful to share stories even if the old grey cells are not as bright anymore ;)

Please be a returning contributor as much as you wish and once again a big welcome  :D

Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on February 04, 2015, 03:28:08 PM
Hi Bob ,thanks for the welcome.i am a few years older than you but perhaps you knew my sister Lillian Black
She sang in the choir too.We never got to go to London.My mother & father didn't allow us.One of my early memories of Everton was learning to Knit.We had to make a scarf .Tom Elliot won the prize for the longest & best.i remember Miss Reid being a good teacher.While we were working at our desks Mr. Cathcart would walk around singing Lazy bones lying in the sun .How do you expect to get your days work done.Grace Neilly was my next door neighbour in Glenbryn.She went to South Africa I'm hibernating at the moment .I hate driving in the snow.best wishes to all evertonions
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on February 04, 2015, 09:13:34 PM
Hi Acton...the name Lillian Black rings a bell. Which Glenbryn did you live in? Glenbryn Drive, or Park, or Parade?

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on February 04, 2015, 09:36:51 PM
Hi Peaser,We lived in Glenbryn Park.lillian is 72 she emigrated to Canada in 1974. I  have enjoyed looking at the old pictures .wish I had some to post .
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on February 04, 2015, 09:48:54 PM
Thanks Acton. The Park would be right. Did Lillian go to Woodvale church from time to time?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on February 04, 2015, 09:54:16 PM
Yes she may have gone sometimes but we were members of Crumlin Rd. pres. Lillian Played Badmington in a church league.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on February 04, 2015, 10:12:51 PM
Hi Acton, I'm going back about 50 years or more in my memory. Was she fairly tall, and slim? Mind you, most young people were slim in those days. The person I'm think of would have been a couple of years older than me.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on February 04, 2015, 10:57:56 PM
Lillian was dark haired  about 5 feet 6 and slim build.She went to Everton longer than I did  and then went to Miss Elliot's business school.I think Deirdre Donavan was in her class
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on February 04, 2015, 11:03:19 PM
Can't be sure. I think I may have known her. Wold sometimes meet her walking up from Ardoyne bus stop, walking up the " Loaney" past the bus station back in the quieter days between 1960 and 1964.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on March 05, 2015, 08:00:23 PM
Browner, what a small world when I first started up this thread I was asking if anyone could remember a boy I went to Everton with and that his Dad ran a barber shop in Ardoyne and his name was Peter Smith and now here are you referring to him   Wow.  If by any chance you get to speak to him would you please pass on my fond regards and remind him my name is Bobby Norton of Cranbrook Gardens it would so awesome to make contact after 50+ years ;)

Thanks peaser for those book titles mate I'll do a search for them this IS such good fun hope your ALL enjoying as much as I am please keep comments happening and invite as many folks that might add something to the thread even if it's only a snippet it's all worthwhile ;)

Cheers for now from hot hot Melbourne, Australia :(. Rob :o
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on March 05, 2015, 10:16:27 PM
Hello Browner...I think your last post was missing your comments. All we got was the quote from Rob...a great quote all the same but  we didn't get what you said.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on March 06, 2015, 02:53:02 PM
Sorry about that when you reach 75 the grey matter doesn't work that well. I meant to tell Rob and Macnamee I rang Peter Smith last week and he remembers both of you and I told him how to catch up with you. He assured me he would I hope he does,
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: McNamee on March 06, 2015, 03:55:56 PM
Thanks Browner,

It would be lovely to hear from  him...Lovely guy.... O0
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on March 06, 2015, 10:10:23 PM
Browner, the average age on these pages is probably 75 so you are in good company. We all help each other.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on March 07, 2015, 08:59:01 PM
Thanks leader that makes me feel better..
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on March 07, 2015, 09:01:46 PM
Sorry leader I do not know where this leader comes from this machine does it own thing when I touch post.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on March 07, 2015, 09:03:00 PM
There it goes again, sorry.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on March 07, 2015, 09:44:27 PM
It's called " fat fingers syndrome" browner. The P for Peaser is  just above the L on your keyboard, and the s is just beside the d. So there you go. Sure we all knew what you meant to say.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on March 08, 2015, 02:48:07 PM
Browner thanks so very much for mentioning me to Peter and I really do hope he can come in here one time it would be grand to catch up I just hope it wasn't McNamee that Peter and I fancied back then as we would have to fight over her and we ain't that young any more   LOL  >:D

Anyways, I hope you ALL are well and enjoying life to the fullest just remember we are here for a good time not a long time so make every day count  ;)

Rob  :P
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Tireman on March 08, 2015, 07:43:06 PM


     Hi Acton.     My wife went to Everton school during the same period.     She was in the verse speaking part of the choir and tells me it was in 1951 to do with the Festival of Britain .She passed her 11 plus exam and also went to Belfast High School and now lives in Ontario.       Her original home was one of the 4 houses that were destroyed during the troubles ,at the corner of Berwick road and Alliance avenue ,the waste land was converted to some peace park but from what I know 4 new houses have been built on the site

all the best Tireman
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on March 09, 2015, 08:16:34 PM
Rob you're so right with you're last comment. JB.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on April 09, 2015, 01:53:31 AM
Hi Tireman ,my name was marion Black .I lived in Glenbryn Park.& now live in Ontario .I think the houses in Glenbryn were all pulled down When did you leave Belfast?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on April 09, 2015, 02:21:36 AM
Hi Tireman ,my name was marion Black .I lived in Glenbryn Park.& now live in Ontario .I think the houses in Glenbryn were all pulled down When did you leave Belfast?
Hello Marion...did you, or a sister, ever teach Sunday school at Woodvale Presbyterian church? There was a Miss Black who lied in Glenbryn Park...towards the top end I think.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on April 09, 2015, 02:57:04 AM
Hi Peaser ,we lived at 28 .Both my sister & I taught Sunday School at Crumlin Rd. pres.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on April 09, 2015, 03:53:03 AM
Crumlin Road Presbyterian. That was actually at Ballysillan wasn't it?  So maybe I am thinking of some other Sunday School teacher. I'm sure her name was Black...and definitely lived in the Park. She gave me a New Testament back in 1953 but I have just checked it ( I have lived in Australia for 51 years and am the world's greatest hoarder) and see that the inscription simply reads " from Sunday School Teacher"...no name. Maybe that will give you a clue anyway...a Sunday school teacher who lived in the Park in 1953.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Acton on April 09, 2015, 04:32:02 AM
Peaser Crumlin Rd Pres .was at the end of Tennant St. I would have been 14 & my sister 11 when you got your New Testament.I don't think there were any other Blacks in Glenbryn Park. I went to the U.S. in 1960 went home in 67 went to Canada & have been in Ontario ever since Its a great country .Just wish the winters were shorter
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on April 09, 2015, 05:46:26 AM
Hello folks sorry I haven't been in for while but have now caught up with the chat and it's so pleasing to see people still making their way in here and sharing stories & memories   Good on you all ;)

Our central heating blow up so have been flat out replacing that plus my Mrs is off soon to see our son in LA so of course she needs a new wardrobe of clothes  >:D  lol.   ( Still 4 weeks of peace might be worth the effort  :P  don't anyone tell her this lol !

Keep up the chat and thanks for visiting,
Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 05, 2015, 09:02:07 AM
Browner no word from Peter Smith yet but then again he would probably contact McNamee before as she is much more prettier than meself  :P    Hey McNamee if Peter does make contact could you please wish him well from me ;)

Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: McNamee on May 05, 2015, 10:10:16 AM
Glad you realise that Rob, That I am much prettier than you.... :D

I have not heard from him either, but am now going to make it my business to find/stalk him... :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on May 05, 2015, 11:21:20 AM
Hi,Macnamee and Rob I will give him another bell and let him know you both would like to hear from him.Hope all is well with both of you.JB.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 06, 2015, 03:49:17 AM
Hi Browner all good this end mate and thanks for that and of course I know your much prettier McNamee and let's face it I won't want Peter to lust after me LOL   >:D >:D >:D

Let's hope he makes the effort ehhh !  ( in contacting I mean not the lusting  :o ) good luck stalking McNamee )

Rob  :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: joeiefinn on June 29, 2015, 06:56:28 PM
The Music Teacher was Mrs McCoullough. Strangely Mr McCleary was I charge of the Chior. He later, became head of Fleming Fulton School.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on June 30, 2015, 03:06:31 AM
Hi joeiefinn and welcome and thanks for your input I do recall both those names and I'm forever thankful for folks like yourself for coming in here and helping my wee dying grey cells re-charge LOL  :o  I do hope you will revisit and offer anything else you remember of those days past ;)

Cheers & Regards,

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on June 30, 2015, 04:01:03 AM
Does anyone recall how  moveable partitions/screens  separated the classes that were housed in the " assembly" hall at Everton back around 1950/51. Class numbers were large back then.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on July 01, 2015, 11:57:28 AM
Peaser if you remember them you must be about my age. If so we must be the two oldest swingers on this site.lol
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 01, 2015, 01:06:55 PM
Well I was five when I saw them. I started at Everton, in 1950. I was only there for a year or two and then a mob of us transferred up to the newly built Wheatfield, and browner, there is another thread on Wheatfield on this site.
I also remember the small brick walls round the school. We sat on them, jumped on them, jumped over them, and ran along them. They had had all the iron railings sawn off them during the war. A school dinner canteen was built just up beside the school around 1953 or so...next to the Enny. Nobody ever talks much about the Enny ( NFS) on this site. It was a fabulous place for kids to play in in those days...we were all Robin Hoods. If I try, I can still recall the taste and smell, and the texture of some of  those school dinners. There was a meat pie affair , and the always lumpy mash, and the carrot and parsnip mix. There was dessert which had a pie crust base, then jam, then some sort of frothy marshmallowy topping. Lumpy custard was a regular. The dinners were cheap and filling and in those days it was the only decent meal a lot of kids would have had on a school day.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: m-cully on July 02, 2015, 01:57:53 AM
Anyone remember Ann Higgins from Duneden Park. My sister's best friend in the 50's.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on July 02, 2015, 10:10:34 PM
Hi. Peaser you're only a pup.I started everton in 1945 and they had those partisions then.Sorry but you now make me feel really old at 75 my next birthday in October Really hope this site goes on as long as I do.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on July 02, 2015, 10:19:49 PM
Hi. Rob and Mcanmee spoke to Peter recently and told him you both would like to hear from him,but he was a bit poorly at the time.I will give him a ring in a few days time and see how he is and maybe speak to Ann and ask her to remind him to give us a buzz. Browner. Sorry hope you're both keeping well.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 05, 2015, 07:02:24 AM
Peaser I remember those moveable boards and browner age is but a number and yes we are ALL swingers in here even if the swing is a tad slower LOL ;). M-cully sorry that name does not jolt any of my limited we grey cells and thanks again browner for the contact with Peter please wish him a speedy recovery ;)

I might have mentioned this before so just blame my mini paws ok but do any of you remember the wee shop at top of Cranbrook Gardens just down past the tram/bus depot   It was just a house with a small shop front and I remember going there with War Coupons for milk & bread and with little change I could pick out a small bag's worth of mixed lollies which of course I ate before getting home so my sister didn't get any LOL  >:D

Cheers, Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: browner on July 05, 2015, 12:00:17 PM
Yes Rob it was Arlows he was called Cully I don't know what that was short for and his daughter Lily worked in it sometimes.They lived on the Upper Crumlin road just facing Wheatfield Gardens. Tried getting Peter but he must be away at present he has a place in Spain and he goes there a lot. Browner
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 07, 2015, 06:51:16 AM
Hi Browner thanks for that info and yes I remember a younger female in that wee shop and as far as Peter is concerned just let's hope he is away and perhaps when gets back he might be encouraged to join this Forum and this thread !

Cheers for now,

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: theengineer on July 08, 2015, 12:38:56 AM
Yes Rob it was Arlows he was called Cully I don't know what that was short for and his daughter Lily worked in it sometimes.They lived on the Upper Crumlin road just facing Wheatfield Gardens. Tried getting Peter but he must be away at present he has a place in Spain and he goes there a lot. Browner
Remember Arlows well, they lived opposite Wheatfield as you say and where I lived !
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: dmcferran on July 22, 2015, 11:15:57 AM
The title of this thread caught my eye as Everton Primary was my first school, c.1948, but don't remember much about it as I was only there for about 2 years before moving to Surrey. My father was in the Merchant Marine so we moved regularly. At the time we lived on Alliance Parade, does anyone remember the McFerrans from Alliance Parade before 1950? We then moved back to Belfast c.1953 and I went to Strandtown primary followed by Sullivan Upper before emigrating to Australia.

Dave.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 23, 2015, 04:17:26 AM
Hi and welcome dave (dmcferran) glad you dropped in mate sorry that name dosn't ring anything in my wee brain but maybe some one else it here may remember :)  Keep checking back you never know  ;)

Cheers for now, Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: elibar on December 31, 2015, 10:25:55 PM
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Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: elibar on December 31, 2015, 10:26:34 PM
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Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on March 09, 2016, 05:40:54 AM
Hi elibar and ALL other folks who have contributed their time and stories to this thread I believe I'm right in saying we have ALL really enjoyed reading what people have offered and as the person who started the thread I can't more happier that so many of you have joined and shared  :D  Thank you ALL !

Again I must apologise for not being in here as often as I should and want to be but we have just sold our house of 33 years and have downsized to another and it's been a bit sad but also exciting to make the BIG zombie !

We are settling well now and I will try to get this thread back up and going again if any of you are interested !

Hope you ALL had a great Christmas and wishing ALL the very best for 2016  ;)

Cheers for now, Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: elibar on March 09, 2016, 03:23:01 PM
Welcome back and hello from Florida.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on March 13, 2016, 07:05:12 AM
Thanks elibar I hope your well and all is well in Florida  . we may get to see your part of this world one day as our son lives in LA and we intend to visit him as often as we can and are able to :)

Regards, Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on March 13, 2016, 07:07:15 AM
Sorry tried to correct my previous posting where the word zombie was suppose to read move ?  Don't know what happened there LOL
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on March 18, 2016, 02:02:28 AM
To ALL and EVERYONE who has come into this thread and in fact to everyone in this wonderful site I would just like to Wish You All a Very Happy St. Pats Day and may the rest of the year bring nothing but happiness and good health to you all    Thanks for your support to the thread and for sharing some great stories and memories  :D

Fondest regards to all,

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on March 30, 2016, 09:49:00 AM
Hi Rob 1943
I've just discovered that my cousin's husband went to Everton and was probably there in your time, and may well have been in your class...who knows. His name is Jim Rea. He has ended up as a Methodist minister. I've lived in Australia since 1964 so have been slow to catch up on some things that were happening back on the sod.
Just had a look at the photo you posted some years ago, taken at Wheatfield where I also went, and many of the faces in that photo are familiar to me. I think I can even put names to a couple of them....Eddie Irvine....Oswald Templeton....Derek Ramsay.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on March 30, 2016, 09:52:50 AM
The title of this thread caught my eye as Everton Primary was my first school, c.1948, but don't remember much about it as I was only there for about 2 years before moving to Surrey. My father was in the Merchant Marine so we moved regularly. At the time we lived on Alliance Parade, does anyone remember the McFerrans from Alliance Parade before 1950? We then moved back to Belfast c.1953 and I went to Strandtown primary followed by Sullivan Upper before emigrating to Australia.

Dave.
Hi dMcferran ...You mentioned Sullivan Upper. An old friend of mine went there...probably sometime between 1953 and 1959. His name was Billy Longridge. I played rugby there a few times when I was at the Model. Sullivan's rugby pitch was famous because it was on a slope. Each team had a turn at playing uphill.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 06, 2016, 01:15:38 AM
Hope this works. An old pic of the Crumlin Road with tram, and Everton School just visible on the right beside the houses.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/iemct5.jpg)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 06, 2016, 01:18:10 AM
And just beyond Everton in the pic ..there is a wooded area which was known as the NFS or the Enny where we used to play Robin Hood games and run wild climbing trees and hiding out...back in the 1940s and 1950s(http://i63.tinypic.com/iemct5.jpg)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RobNN1943 on May 18, 2016, 10:33:27 AM
To anyone who might still come into this thread please note that I had to leave the forum for personal reasons and I have now come back in under this adjusted nick name !

Kind regards,

Rob ( Rob1943 now RobNN1943)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 18, 2016, 10:45:59 AM
Fair enough Rob. But won't everyone now know that you are still Rob 1943?
Anyway...hope whatever it was is now behind you. Did you like the photo?

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RobNN1943 on May 18, 2016, 10:56:35 AM
Hi Peaser and YES I loved the photo mate and I could make out the school indeed  ;) well done !  It will take me some time now to make it back up to 500+ postings again LOL

Rob  :D
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 18, 2016, 11:05:39 AM
It will take no time at all if we get some chat going again.
Didn''t the road look " genteel" in those days. We used to call it " the front of the road". I wonder why that was.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: McNamee on May 18, 2016, 11:12:54 AM
Welcome back. :-* :-*
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RSL on May 18, 2016, 01:07:01 PM
Hi Rob 1943
I've just discovered that my cousin's husband went to Everton and was probably there in your time, and may well have been in your class...who knows. His name is Jim Rea. He has ended up as a Methodist minister. I've lived in Australia since 1964 so have been slow to catch up on some things that were happening back on the sod.
Just had a look at the photo you posted some years ago, taken at Wheatfield where I also went, and many of the faces in that photo are familiar to me. I think I can even put names to a couple of them....Eddie Irvine....Oswald Templeton....Derek Ramsay.

Hi Peaser,
I think I may have been neighbours with your cousin's husband if he lived in Silverstream.
The Rea's were a lovely family.
My sister went to Everton and there is a picture of her in the Hockey team on page 6 of this thread.

Regards RSL.

Welcome back Rob. :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: RobNN1943 on May 18, 2016, 01:14:39 PM
Thanks McNamee & RSL  ... are you sure that wasn't Hugh Irvine RSL as he is my cousin and he is in that photo ?

Cheers all,

Rob  :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: chi on May 18, 2016, 04:24:32 PM
Hope this works. An old pic of the Crumlin Road with tram, and Everton School just visible on the right beside the houses.
(http://i63.tinypic.com/iemct5.jpg)

Great picture! My memories of Everton
school seem to visualize the school being
much larger.  On our way to Legionel we
would walk the low wall. Sometimes we
would play in the wooded area on the left
side behind the houses, where a  stream
running behind those homes would change
colors. :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 18, 2016, 10:13:08 PM
That stream behind those houses changed colours from time to time because it ran past the linen mill further up the road. I fell into the stream one day while climbing up an embankment...tasted the water....bleach and other stuff. No wonder it changed colour.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on May 24, 2016, 01:40:56 AM
OK got my old sign in back sorry for messing around I'll behave from now on LOL  >:D

Rob  :o
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: chi on May 24, 2016, 01:55:56 AM
That stream behind those houses changed colours from time to time because it ran past the linen mill further up the road. I fell into the stream one day while climbing up an embankment...tasted the water....bleach and other stuff. No wonder it changed colour.

I thought there was a paint factory
near by. I knew there were mills
further up. No doubt decades later
there are better environmental standards
in place :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 24, 2016, 03:19:45 AM
Chi I think it was Ewart's Mill further up...at Ligoniel...."near the turn of the road".
Can't recall a paint factory.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 24, 2016, 03:22:27 AM

I'm not certain but I think Jim Rea might have lived on the Shankill, not Silverstream.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: chi on May 24, 2016, 04:06:13 AM
Chi I think it was Ewart's Mill further up...at Ligoniel...."near the turn of the road".
Can't recall a paint factory.

I had a sister work in the Ligoniel mill
didn't know that it was Ewarts. I thought
the one at Cambria st was Ewarts.  :)
 
Maybe it was dye from the linen mill that 
colored the stream water ???
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 24, 2016, 04:42:27 AM
You are probably right about Ewart's and Ligoniel CHI. I have been away since 1964 so have forgotten a lot about the area even though I used to know that area very well from many walks . One of those walks took me past a little whitewashed cottage with a black slate roof which we called " The Inkwell" because it looked like one. Anyone remember that?
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on May 24, 2016, 04:57:09 AM
CHI....if you look under the Topic thread LIGONIEL-Ewart's Mill you will find some answers to what we are talking about here. The bleach that ran in the stream/river into which I fell seems like it might have come from the Glenbank Bleach  works. Apparently Ewart owned the Ligoniel mill too.   Anyway...I suppose we should get back to the topic of Everton here or we will be reprimanded for diverting the thread.
Did anybody ever eat in the school canteen which was just a short walk up the road from the school? What would have been your most hated lunch there? I was never too fond of the pie...big crust and dubious meat content with chewy carrots. Mashed potato was usually lumpy. Tapioca was often on the menu when I went there, but few of us would eat it.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: chi on May 24, 2016, 06:02:09 AM
CHI....if you look under the Topic thread LIGONIEL-Ewart's Mill you will find some answers to what we are talking about here. The bleach that ran in the stream/river into which I fell seems like it might have come from the Glenbank Bleach  works. Apparently Ewart owned the Ligoniel mill too.   Anyway...I suppose we should get back to the topic of Everton here or we will be reprimanded for diverting the thread.
Did anybody ever eat in the school canteen which was just a short walk up the road from the school? What would have been your most hated lunch there? I was never too fond of the pie...big crust and dubious meat content with chewy carrots. Mashed potato was usually lumpy. Tapioca was often on the menu when I went there, but few of us would eat it.

Thanks for pointing me
in the right direction.
enjoy your Everton memories O0

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Sam Hazley on July 09, 2016, 05:35:15 PM
Hi Rob
I also moved from Everton to Wheatfield then back to Everton. I don't remember you as there was no one in my class with a bald head. Brian  Barnes was in my class and I phoned his dad once when I was home. He told me Brian was living in Detroit. I remember many more names of people in my class and would love to hear from anyone who was there in the early sixtees
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 12, 2016, 03:14:59 AM
Hi Sam and welcome I'm sorry that this thread has become rather quiet lately but it's nice to see folks still dropping in to say hello ;) I'm not too sure what your reference to a bald head means but I certainly didn't have one LOL.  You mention you went home so does this mean you are living elsewhere than Belfast ?

I hope a few others get to read this and maybe some body from the sixtees will write back to you here ;)

Cheers for now,

Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 12, 2016, 03:27:14 AM
Not sure if I asked this before. Does anyone remember Miss Crooks at Everton ...around 1950/51 or so?

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 13, 2016, 08:29:48 AM
No sorry Peaser that name dos'nt jog the old grey cells but maybe some one else will chime in in the meantime I hope your rolling along well mate and enjoying life to the fullest  .. it has been bitterly cold here in the last few weeks with some mornings down to a low 6degs Far   almost reminds me of Belfast ;)

Cheers for now,
Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 13, 2016, 09:24:41 AM
Yes Rob 1943...cold it is. But in Australia it's a good clean bracing cold isn't it? I remember the cold Belfast mornings with the air hung with chimney smoke.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on July 13, 2016, 03:22:41 PM
Hi Rob
I also moved from Everton to Wheatfield then back to Everton. I don't remember you as there was no one in my class with a bald head. Brian  Barnes was in my class and I phoned his dad once when I was home. He told me Brian was living in Detroit. I remember many more names of people in my class and would love to hear from anyone who was there in the early sixtees

Sam, I went to Everton from St. Marks and was also in Brian Barnes's class and your name rings a bell. Bertie Sharkie is my name and I am living in Canada and have been here since 1977.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on July 13, 2016, 03:26:00 PM
That stream behind those houses changed colours from time to time because it ran past the linen mill further up the road. I fell into the stream one day while climbing up an embankment...tasted the water....bleach and other stuff. No wonder it changed colour.
Peaser, I used to live in one of the Mill houses down Harmony Hill and the water changed colour because of the different dyes used for the cloth.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 14, 2016, 02:17:13 AM
Yes Peaser your right the cold here specially in Victoria comes directly up from the Antartica and is very clean crisp & bracing  ... but still bloody cold LOL ;)

Could to hear from you again udini how are you keeping you are in a country I would love to visit one day maybe one year when we visit our son & wife in LA we might be able to strike out from there for a quick visit  
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on July 14, 2016, 03:13:16 AM
Thanks udini. So it was dye I swallowed. Not so pristine back in those days either.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Supermum on August 12, 2016, 09:15:56 PM
Hi Roberta,  Welcome to the thread and thanks for your input it's great that folks who went to Everton either before or after it became a ALL girls school  ;)   I hope some of you remember each other or maybe some of the names being posted in here   either teachers or fellow school chums at the time  ???

My very best wishes to you ALL and please keep coming back and invite others to join who may not know of this thread  :D

Cheers, Rob

Hi Roberta,

I also went to Everton, I think I remember you, you were brilliant at shorthand and maths in Miss Dinen's class???  I was Lynne Fannon
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Supermum on August 12, 2016, 09:21:03 PM
Hello Altoni!   When I left in 1967 I was in sixth form...there were only 7 of us, and I think we were the first class to sit GCEs at Everton. You've reminded me of Miss Turkington and Miss Dinnen, but I can't recall Miss Ferguson. I remember that there were 4 houses, but I can't remember mine.. :( ...doesn't seem like 45 years! :o :)

Think you must have been there around same time as me.  Four Houses   Green Austen    Blue Curie    Red Nightingale   Yellow Victoria  I was in Victoria  Mrs Campbell was our housemistress.   Miss Turkingon died quite young from cancer.  Miss Dinnen still going strong, see her occasionally in M & S Sprucefield.  Saw Miss Mccullough a few years ago at Finaghy.  Miss Ferguson was my maths teacher .  She left and Miss McCordick became vice principal.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 13, 2016, 07:28:47 AM
Hi Supermum so nice of you to drop in and I hope you will return as it's great when Evertorians drop by and share some stories ;).  It ALL helps make this BIG world a little smaller and let's us share some wonderful memories ;)

Cheers for now,
Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 13, 2016, 10:59:44 AM
I'm still waiting for someone to confide that they went to the Everton/Wheatfield school canteen, and maybe discuss
the food that was dished up there. I can only talk about the food that was served there between 1951 ( I think that's when it started) and 1955. It was a great service, and for its time it was a great school canteen, but some of the cooking was not the best. Lumpy mash springs to mind. Some sort of beef that repeated on you for the rest of the day and night, and many strange desserts..or puddings....pink, sugary, ...and tapioca...and what we called Flies Graveyards,
sugary shaving cream piped over gluggy custard. But as crook as it was it filled many otherwise empty stomachs in those days.  One of my best memories of the Everton/Wheatfield canteen...which was on the Ardoyne Road just up from Everton, and next to the NFS ( Enny) ...was the night we went to see Oliver Twist screened there by the Parents Association as a fund raiser. All the kids sat on the floor, and thought it was wonderful...probably round about 1952 I'd say. It was also a stormy and wet night, which made the movie all the more exciting for us..indoors under shelter.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 13, 2016, 11:08:29 AM
The version of Oliver Twist I mentioned seeing at Everon Canteen was the 1948 version with a bloke called John Howard Davies as Oliver. Howard Davies went on to produce such shows as Steptoe and Son, The Good Life..and Fawlty Towers.
See here...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Howard_Davies
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on August 14, 2016, 02:27:32 AM
Hi Peaser excellent recount there mate but I honestly don't remember that canteen as I either ran home for lunch or had a wee lunch box with a sandwich and an apple or piece of fruit in it !  It's really sad how some of us like myself forget a lot of those early days  . I had an extremely stern and strict Mum and my sister and I were rarely allowed to go anywhere by ourselves so it's only those times when I actually got away from her that have left an impression in my wee brain !  For example my cousin Hugh Irvine and I rode our bikes to Whitehead one time and had a terrific day and then because we didn't get home till 9pm my Mum had me grounded for a week ;(

Still I survived and life does go on  :P

Rob  ;)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on August 14, 2016, 02:45:03 AM
Hi Rob. Yes I know what you mean. My mum was strict too...or rather I'd say, she was protective, but there came a time when she let us have our wings a bit, and at the age of 13 or 14 I was allowed to go Youth Hostelling with two mates. We hitch hiked , rucksacks on our backs, from the end of the lines on the Antrim Road all the way up the Antrim Coast Road to White Park Bay, stopping at hostels at Ballygally, Cushendun, and a few others I can't recall. It was a great holiday, and we hitch hiked back to Belfast in one piece about a week later. No phones, enough money to pay our two bob a night hostel fee, and a shilling for a sleeping sheet, and enough to feed ourselves...just. The rest was fresh air and fun. But would a parent let a 13 or 14 year old go hitch hiking for a week these days...without hearing from them every night with a phone call....or maybe five times a day by text? No chance. But I remember when I was about 10 doing a similar bike trip to you and Hugh....we went down to Holywood or somewhere and it being the long summer nights we just lost track of time and got back home too late. I wasn't grounded but I wasn't a popular boy.
On the canteen....I too would often go home for lunch, or take a sandwich, but the school dinners were very cheap, and they were filling enough that you probably wouldn't need another meal that day. I think the " dinner tickets" were about 6d in those days.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on December 06, 2016, 03:43:46 AM
I know this thread is just about dead but for anyone who has visited and may even check in I would just like to Wish you a Very Merry Christmas and A Safe and Happy New Year 🍰🍰🍷🍷🍕🍕😻😻😻😻

Maybe we shall meet up in 2017 !  But if not thanks for your input and for your visiting   be well  
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on December 06, 2016, 05:55:26 AM
Not so fast Rob. The Everton thread dead? Not by a long stretch. I'm sure there are plenty of other ex Everton people, and former residents of the streets around it still to get here. A good new year to yourself. We just need a couple of stories to kick it along again.  We all remember the wee shop across the road from the school...near what became the bus station...the shop was no more than a front room of a house with the open window used as the counter, They sold great baps....well, at least they were baps we used to buy and enjoy. But down in the Ardoyne shops there was a hardware store called the OK Stores. It was an Aladdin's cave of hardware. Hard to imagine how much stuff she had crammed in there. Yes...it was run by a woman...who seemed old to us then...she wore an apron, and a beret, and
rarely smiled. She knew where everything in the store was ..to the smallest screw.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on December 13, 2016, 03:23:54 AM
Hi and thanks Peaser and yes I remember that lady infact I remember the food ration stamps we got after the war and my Mum would send me up to that wee shop for bread and I could get a wee bag of mixed lollies at the same time ;)

I certainly hope some more people join in with different stories as it's so nice to share and recall past times  
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on September 13, 2017, 03:01:03 PM
Hello to anyone who might come into this old thread  . I would like to apologise for not posting anything in for quite some time and I probably won't be back in here or the forum as 6 weeks ago my beautiful wife of almost 50 years suddenly pasted away and I'm completely lost at the moment and honestly can't see a future without her  :'(

Thanks to those of you that contributed to this thread and I can only wish you ALL the very best for the future and please take care !

Rob1943
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on September 13, 2017, 03:04:12 PM
So very sorry for your loss. My thoughts,and I'm sure lots of other members, are with you.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: gordy on September 24, 2017, 02:53:55 PM
Hello to anyone who might come into this old thread  . I would like to apologise for not posting anything in for quite some time and I probably won't be back in here or the forum as 6 weeks ago my beautiful wife of almost 50 years suddenly pasted away and I'm completely lost at the moment and honestly can't see a future without her  :'(

Thanks to those of you that contributed to this thread and I can only wish you ALL the very best for the future and please take care !

Rob1943

My deepest sympathies go out to you and your family. May God give you the peace that you seek.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: GandT on September 24, 2017, 03:04:07 PM

My deepest sympathies go out to you and your family. May God give you the peace that you seek.

I would echo every thing said here. My friend lost his wife - a year ago this week - exactly the same number of years married as you, Rob1943. He was low - very low, much more even than I thought he would be. And I visited him at least 10-12 times over that year. I know that people genuinely sympathise and empathise - they do and they really, really mean well. Nonetheless, that sort of bereavement, no matter how much others feel it, is a process in which of us is unique and alone. Family are of great support but not even children and siblings can experience and know the depth of an individual's bereavement. Time may not heal - in fact, there may be reason not to want to feel 'healed' but it does eventually lend order, shape and meaning to a life lived in love between two people. 5o years means that there must have been a great deal of all of these. May you find the peace and opportunity to know, recognise and accept with great grace and pride what the two of you achieved in a married life well lived.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on September 25, 2017, 02:39:12 AM
I would just like to thank from the bottom of my heart udini, Gordy and GandT for your very kind words eight weeks along and it's still so very raw and hurting but yes your absolutely right GandT when you say that in our 50 years we created so many wonderful memories plus two of the most amazing children that we love and are loved by plus so many close and lovely friends we were truely blessed 😍  I owe her this promise that I will live the rest of my life to the fullest as she would want me to and I shall support our children to my very best for her and me.

Thanks again for visiting this thread and thanks for being thoughtful wonderful human beings 💕💕💕💕💕

Rob1943
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Robina on October 13, 2017, 11:37:53 PM
Hi. I have just found this site and would love to see some posts form anyone who attended Everton from 64 to 69. I'm new to all of this. Time marches on and I've got to wondering what happened to some of the girls I knew.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on October 16, 2017, 01:08:19 AM
There was a Robina Munn in my class G1.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Robina on October 16, 2017, 06:33:22 PM
Hi asp1. That was definitely me. Can I ask your name? I was G1 too.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: asp1 on October 16, 2017, 10:37:57 PM
Hi Robina, I have sent you a message.  regards Sarah
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Robina on October 18, 2017, 09:38:51 PM
Hi asp1
I've sent you a personal message. I hope you got it.
 :)
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Robina on October 27, 2017, 12:13:14 AM
Hi Sarah.
I think I sent you a personal reply to your fab list of girls in our class. I can't find it and haven't had a reply so any chance of letting me know if you got my reply to your message.
Thanks
Robina
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on December 06, 2017, 01:25:45 AM
To anyone who comes back in here or any new posts I just want to apologise for my absence but I'm still rather lost after the passing of my beautiful wife of 50 years and as such I find it hard to socialise even in here 💔💔

I'll take this opportunity to wish ALL who have shared this thread a Very Happy Christmas and A Safe & Healthy 2018 Year please take care hugs and handshakes and prayers to anyone who needs them 😘😘

Rob1943
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on June 14, 2018, 02:43:12 AM
Hello Rob
Just coming back to the Forum for a look, as I haven't been here for some time. Sorry to read about your wife. Hope you are travelling better now.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: GeordieT on October 25, 2018, 08:54:53 PM
Hi Sam Heazly ,I went to Everton then Wheatfield then back to Everton and was in the same class as you Bertie Sharkie and Brian Barnes.Brian was Mr Barnes son and travelled with him each day from Dunadry. One day they both arrived very late and Brian had his arm in a sling, he had fallen out of the back of the car when his dad was going round a corner. My name is George Toole and  I have recently been in touch with Jim Todd also from our class. I left in September 1962.I have not posted before as I have just found this thread.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: James T on October 25, 2018, 09:48:38 PM
Hi all, just found the site after speaking to George Toole.
I attended Everton from 1958 to 1962 approx and recall a lot of the names mentioned.
School people teachers were Mr Keers ,headmasters. Mr Barnes vice principal.
Mr Gibson English and drama. Mr Cathcart ,who swung round his door in the corridor , maths. Miss McCoullough ( ginger hair )music. Mr Findlay the sadistic PE teacher. Mr Redpath did not teach us but took us to play cricket at Woodvale cricket club. I don’t remember the Domestic Science teacher name except she was georgeus and did the first aid patching me up on a number of occasions . We also had a very pretty petite French teacher but can’t remember her name.
My mates at the time were George Toole, John McKeag, Alex Heffernan, Brian Barnes the VPs son. I also recall Bertie Sharkie. There were a number of girls we were friendly with but the only name I can recall was Maureen Heslip.
I Have not lived in Belfast for some 45 years now and was great recently to meet up with George  and John We are all getting on a bit now but it would be great to hear from any of my old friends or associate pupils of the time.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: James T on November 19, 2018, 10:44:25 PM
Hi George, I have not had any responders yet to my blog but I see Bertie Sharkie has responded to you. He was definitely in our class and would like to hear from him.
The problem seems to be the blog is in different places and I found it again under Belfast blog and a big list of other inquiries.
Still haven’t heard from Brian Murdock, hope he is well.
Back next week from Tenerife and will call.

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: GeordieT on November 20, 2018, 09:49:40 AM
Hi Jim, I sent Brian Murdock an old photo from his motor bike years. He replied and is well but leaving oz next year as his wife has got a job in England for 2 years. Bertie Sharky doesn't think he was in our class, really strange as we both remember him. Catch up when you come home. Geordie
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Eve62 on March 13, 2019, 09:47:49 PM
Hi asp1. That was definitely me. Can I ask your name? I was G1 too.

I remember a Robina Munn too, she won a competition for lovely legs !!!!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on April 01, 2019, 05:44:25 PM
Hello to you all,especially those of you who know me and/or were in the same class as me at Everton.Maybe I have been having a few senior moments and had forgotten you all. George Toole,did you live in Glenbank Place at the corner of Legann Street? I lived in number 8 after the family moved up from one of the mills houses in Harmony. I went to St.Marks and then to Everton.To be honest I can't remember too many of my classmates there. Maybe you can.
Bertie Sharkie
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: udini on April 02, 2019, 03:25:09 PM
Hi,It's me again. After some thought I do remember George Toole. Sorry I was getting you mixed up with Roy George and he is the one who lived in Glenbank Place. But I would still like to get in touch with any of my old classmates from Everton and St.Marks.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: James T on April 02, 2019, 10:21:25 PM
Hi George, I got a message from Bertie Sharkie but I find this blog hard to work with.
I see a lot of posts from ex Everton 59/64 but not many I recognise or recognise me despite knowing all the teachers of the period.
Bertie is in Canada and would like to make contact as I would with any old mates/ girl friends. Will call yo.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on April 11, 2019, 12:33:22 AM
(http://i50.tinypic.com/2kqpu.jpg)Hi Rob... The bloke in the front row on the right was Robert Blevings. Do you remember Robert?

Let's see if this works    Time for a wee laugh at my expense  ;) if this photo gets posted here then it will show my School Photo of 1954 at Wheatfield School during the period we were all sent up there while Everton had some work done to it and the "DORK" five in from the top row is me  ??? LOL

Cheers ALL,

Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: hotseat on April 22, 2019, 04:07:58 PM
Hello ALL in Belfast Forum,

I'm just wondering if any folks out there went to Everton Primary which then became Everton Secondary and I believe afterwards it became a Girls only school ?  I'm talking about back in the 50's as I left there in 1957 as a 14yr old and started my first job as a grocery home delivery boy for a grocery store which was up the top end of Woodville Parade.

Some teacher names I recall back then were :  Mr. Cathcart ( I think he was our Religion Teacher ) and Miss Fanny Freeburn ( I think she was our English Teacher ) and Mr. Barnes ( who I know was our Maths Teacher ). Sorry but my wee old grey cells are burning out fast but I also remember when Everton was having some renovations done we were ALL sent up to Wheatfield School.

Anyhow, I would be thrilled if anyone of that era could add anything to this thread :)

Thanks and Cheers,
Rob
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: James T on April 22, 2019, 09:44:39 PM

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George, have had another contact with Bertie Sharkie, and he has reminded me of another Boy Billy Bryan’s who lived in Enfield st Woodvale.
I am surprised we have have no other responses from other boys and girls who attended same time as us. Bertie is coming to England in October and perhaps we can arrange some sort of reunion if we had more responses. They can’t all be dead!
There seems to be people on the blog who were ex wheatfield but I would have been the only one from Peters hill at the bottom of Shankill, ex Browns Sq school. But perhaps we will hear from a few others.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: hotseat on April 23, 2019, 12:20:55 AM
 In the front row on the left is Myself Sim Brown and this picture was taken at Wheatfield?

Anybody still in touch, I live in Pinehurst North Carolina U S A

Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: James T on April 23, 2019, 06:55:58 AM
To Hotseat,
Sam I don’t remember you specifically but you would have known George,
Pity because I see you are in Pinehurst NC which is a great golfing place. I play and have been to South Carolina a few times but this year my club Royal Portrush are hosting the open  
It is amazing how many of our school mates are all over the world, only George and me still in old Norn Ireland!!
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: hotseat on April 23, 2019, 04:14:19 PM
Played Portrush a couple of years ago ,Also Malone, I lived in Velsheda Park   where did you live
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: James T on April 23, 2019, 04:49:12 PM
Sam see my earlier post, I lived in Gardiner St , peters Hill.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: GeordieT on April 24, 2019, 11:27:40 AM
Hi Sim, my apologies,I am confusing you with another forum member .I remember the Stockmans from Velsheda, the dad was a bus conductor and Alan Graham did have two sisters.Regards George.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on April 25, 2019, 01:56:46 AM
Geordie T....There was a Hugh Stockman in my class at Wheatfield. You'll find some old Wheatfield photos on the Forum...but probably under Wheatfield heading. Hugh Stockman was mostly known as Q, as were most blokes called Hugh in Belfast... Queueie.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: GeordieT on April 25, 2019, 02:20:31 PM
Peaser. That would have been the son,his dad was also Hugh.I left Wheatfield in 1958 and I think Hughie was a year of so ahead of me. Sadly I think he passed away in 2017. I have a great class photo of the whole class including the girls and the super teacher Mr Baxter,circa 1955/56. Don't know how to post it. Regards Geordie T.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on April 25, 2019, 11:34:36 PM
Geordie T....I left in 1956, and Hugh would have left about the same time I expect. There is a thread on the Forum site for Wheatfield school ...might be a couple....and there you should find a few photos I posted a while ago...and you'll see High Stockman in those,. along with a few other people you might recognise.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Peaser on April 26, 2019, 07:13:48 AM
Peaser. That would have been the son,his dad was also Hugh.I left Wheatfield in 1958 and I think Hughie was a year of so ahead of me. Sadly I think he passed away in 2017. I have a great class photo of the whole class including the girls and the super teacher Mr Baxter,circa 1955/56. Don't know how to post it. Regards Geordie T.
Hi Geordie T....I am trying to post a photo of a Wheatfield class with High Stockman. It's on the Glenbryn Park/ Ardoyne thread at the moment but I will try topmost it here.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Dsmaginnes on April 30, 2020, 04:03:13 PM
Hi Rob/Peaser  just wondered if the names Ernie or Harry Maginnes rang any bells.
Hi asp1 just came across this post about Everton school Ernie Maginnes was my father and Harry was my uncle
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: [email protected] on March 25, 2022, 03:52:06 PM
Hello Robina,

Can I ask did your mum run a shop? I was talking to my mum and she grew up with a girl called Robina who went to Everton and then over to the Girls Model 
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: [email protected] on March 25, 2022, 03:56:11 PM
Hello Robina,Can I ask did your mum run a shop? I was talking to my mum and she grew up with a girl called Robina who went to Everton and then over to the Girls Model
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: [email protected] on March 25, 2022, 04:03:36 PM
Hello Robina,Can I ask did your mum run a shop? I was talking to my mum and she grew up with a girl called Robina who went to Everton and then over to the Girls Model .


My mum Colleen Mcclughan
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Creaky on March 25, 2022, 04:22:00 PM
Hello Robina,Can I ask did your mum run a shop? I was talking to my mum and she grew up with a girl called Robina who went to Everton and then over to the Girls Model .

My mum Colleen Mcclughan
Robina has not posted on here in about five years now but I can confirm that her parents were called Fred and Freda. They ran The Glen Chip Shop at the top of the Oldpark Road.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: [email protected] on March 25, 2022, 04:27:11 PM


Would you know how I could contact her please
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Creaky on March 25, 2022, 04:59:04 PM
Can only suggest you PM her through the forum. Right click on her user name to the left of her last post to take you to her profile. On the left is a button marked "action". Below that it says "send message" Click on that and go from there.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: elibar on July 04, 2022, 10:03:28 PM
Super mom
I remember you. I think you became a nurse.
Title: Re: Everton School
Post by: Rob1943 on July 24, 2022, 08:10:29 AM
Hello everyone I’m the one who started off this part of Belfast Forum and I would just like to say how lovely to see some folks still finding this and joining 🥰 I apologise for not being in here as often as I should have but shortly after losing my beautiful wife I was hit with cancer of the panceus had op and was clear for almost 31/2 years then the [censored] came back as terminal liver cancer so have been battling this for almost a year now 🥺

That aside I hope you all are well and coping with this bloody Covid crap as if it’s not hard enough we get this and the biggest hit of Flu ………. Life really does throw a load of crap out way at times but we are strong and we shall come through 👍🥰

Cheers to you all my love and best thoughts go out to each and everyone of you 👍

Fond regards, Rob Xxxxxx