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"Be kind and merciful. Let no one ever come to you without coming away better and happier"
THIS PAGE IS DESIGN FOR YOU TO LEAVE A MESSAGE BY EMAIL YOU JUST SEND your EMAIL to WPW1502@hotmail.com ONLY THE MESSAGE WILL BE POSTED NO EMAIL ADDRESS WILL BE SHOWN UNLESS YOU REQUEST IT TO BE.
NO MAIL WILL BE POSTED IF IT IS FOUND TO CONTAIN OFFENSIVE MATTERWHEN I WAS TOLD THAT THERE HAD BEEN A COUPLE OF SCHOOL RE-UNIONS I WAS SURPRISED TO FIND THAT THE SCHOOL DID NOT HAVE ITS OWN INTERNET SITE SO I CREATED THIS ONE IN THE HOPE THAT EX PUPILS WOULD JOIN IT. AT THE TIME I WAS CREATING THE SITE IT DID OCCUR TO ME I COULD BE WASTING MY TIME BUT YOUR MESSAGES OF SUPPORT HAVE
SHOWN ME HOW WRONG I WAS THANK YOU ALL
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MALLY BARNETT My name is Mal (Mally)Barnett, I went to Saint Marys in the early 50s.Love your site congratulations.I live in Australia now and have done for 43 years. I went to school with the Meakins, Mike Bullock,Pete Flanagan,The Mcglones,The Mcgowans,remember Janet Benstead and David very well.
Tough school, tough kids, great character builder for life in general. Was always taught by Mr Biglin or George Scanlon
now and again by Mr Crosley, he was a bit of a nut as I remember. Yes Watson was a hard man, but I suppose in retrospect he needed to be. I played rugby for the school,with all those guys who went on to be great rugby players. I was hopeless really skinny and scared of those blokes like Colin Ali from Charterhouse etc
My forte was running and I was the school mile runner.
I used to live on Bilton Grange and had to catch the bus to school along with the Meakins, they had this labrodor called "Bruce" and he used to try and get on the bus and follow us. We used to go in the sweet shop at the top of Wilton Street.It was a barbers shop as well was it Max Hymans???Keep up the great work.
=============================================================================i attended st marys school from 1945 to 1953 .
we where still given some lessons by the nuns.
sister mary aquiness being the head nun.
i remember a mr bigglin and a mr scanlon who tought the older boys.is there still some of classmates out there i would to think so.
regards to all
bernard mcintyre
bmcintyre@bmcintyre.karoo.co.uk
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I didn't go to your catholic school. I went to St Gregerys....and hated it. I hated the nuns who used to beat me up for not going to church on a Sunday etc... I am a Quaker Sympathiser now... and I love their peaceful world.
I don't know if you will remember me but I used to visit your mum many years ago. She was very good to me as a child.. very patient and understanding of me... I was a REBEL! I have obviously settled down now and very happily married. I think it is great what you have done with your school. There was a reunion for St Gregerys (I think that is how one spelt it ... not sure now!?) and a service at St Charles Church. I missed it as was out of town.
Keep up the good work,
Best wishes,
Rita Whiting (Fallon)
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thank you for this site, my sister in law Sheila emailed me from Hull and I will be in touch again with memories shortly.Thanks
I went right through St.Marys and after Nautical College joined the Merchant Navy, landed in Australia and settled there. I have a wife, seven children and six grandchildren, I have returned to Hull four times, 1975, 1977, 1990, 1999 and hope to visit next year. I am the only member of my family to leave England. I lived in Strawberry Street and all around our house was bombed. We were nearly opposite the Kingston Pub. On my last visit we went to the site of the school and took pictures of where it was. Once again, it is a pleasure to be part of this site, thank you once again James Portz============================================================================FIRST EMAIL FROM JOHN LYNCH. DEWSBURY --------------------------------------------------
Hi Paul Saw your profile on face book it led me to this site. Don’t know if you remember me l went to St Mary’s in the 1950,s I can relate to all you said in the school days, likewise l also remember the boys club It’s a great site you have started up l cant help you with any photos and l don’t remember much about the school. Just thought l would write and wish you well with the site, it seems strange that no one else has done a site before about the school. has sure there must be lots of old pupils still around with a yarn to tell If you remember me would love to hear from you All the best John lynch
============================================================================ thanks for the welcome, have been looking for a site on st marys for quite a while & was pleaseantly surprised
when my sister ann athraby nee joyce told me about this one, i will search for old photos & add them as i find then
hopefully more people will find this site & old names & faces will appear, i will visit regularly & update my profile as often as possible.keep up the good work bargeman, from kenny joyce
=============================================================================More for my profileWent to St Mary's from 5 years old in 1963 ( i think) until I was 12 in 1960 or there abouts.I was a second chance scholarship girl. I went t St Mary's Inglemire lane. I wanted to go to Malet but Mr Watson tore up my application and made me rewrite it for St Mary's thus condeming me to traveling from Dansom Lane to Inglemire lane till I was 18+. I was there with former St Mary primary girls Christine Chatterton and Shelagh(?). Both really nice girls. Possibly because I went to the grammar school the girl I was friends with at Primary dropped me like a hot brick.I became a young Christian worker in a group formed by Father Carroll who was a vast improvement on Father O'Reidan.( I may have spelt his name wrong) Married in the church but left it later and now live a humanist influenced life with many of what I consider the better bits of being a catholic.KARRO============================================================================