Holland Street School

We used to have a little song about the netball team. We sang it to the tune of ‘After The Ball Was Over’
After the ball was centred
After the whistle blew
Muriel got excited
And didn’t know what to do.
She passed the ball to May
Who couldn’t shoot for sweat
So up came Alice Hawkesworth
And got it in the net!
Annis Wilshaw (nee Satterthwaite)

“Holland Street was the only school that used to have a Play Centre in the evenings. You could go in a games room, where you could play snakes and ladders, chess, monopoly and other ‘quiet’games. There was a room for drawing and there was dancing in the hall. They had a first class netball team. My wife used to play for it. They also had a cracking football team with some great players.”
George Lightbowne

“It was a piece of history. It was a great school! I can still see Mr Kendal stood on the platform in assembly, saying to anyone he saw chewing, “Write me out fifty lines, ‘I must not chew like a cow!’
Margaret Millington

“I remember the floor was wet because our teacher asked us to help her to pull our ‘garden’ into the picture. I am kneeling on the left, behind the ‘garden’.”
Annis Wilshaw