After some jiggery pokery by the Walthamstow Board with various charity finances, the school reopened in West Avenue in 1886.
Everyone was required to go to school sports once a week whatever the weather. Notices and agenda for the meeting will be available to read and download on our website. As my career progressed I passed all necessary exams and tests. I recall feeling a little alienated being taken to a class where the teacher and other school children were at that time complete strangers to myself. My eyes still water at the thought of that day. There was a number of teachers already waiting in the playground as I entered and to my immediate relief, not a cane in sight. Within seconds, the entire school burst out into uncontrollable spontaneous laughter. The dais in the assembly hall was relocated to a different position on which a string quartet and a rather rotund male baritone were positioned. Thoughts of using a penknife to inflicts a wound on someone else simply did not cross ones mind. 190 Chingford Road The start given by the time spent at Sir George Monoux Grammar School must be thanked for a very enjoyable working life. Greenleaf Road Junior School is where I was enrolled the day following my arrival. Fortunately being a child with the excess of energy one has at that age, I found that my walking was back to normal by the time I left. From 1959 to 1969 it operated as a grammar school for boys. Apart from the police in uniform, there were two other members of the team, One was called Safety Sam who would always cross the road in the correct manner. There have been many additions to the buildings since then. When I was at school, international travel was only for the rich and a flight to the other side of the world would take days with overnight stops in hotels. First to Dover for the ferry and then onto a French sleeper train to Berne where we switched to the Swiss railway system. I too have travelled reasonably widely not only in Europe but to Asia, the Orient and Australia. Circus Ringmaster/DirectorClick for Chris Barltrop's mini bio... Chief conductorClick for John Pritchard's mini bio... Chelsea FC strikerClick for Jim Lewis's mini bio... Former President of the Royal Society of MedicineClick for Barry Jackson's mini bio... Former Secretary to the Scottish GovernmentClick for John Elvidge's mini bio... NovelistClick for James Hilton's mini bio... Sir George Monoux College
The other problem with plimsolls was kicking the football. November 4th, 2020, 7.00pm Old Monovians Association AGM and social meeting afterwards. The European Brexit Referendum – In or Out? From 1527 to 1999 the school underwent many changes. The school was re-established following a scheme made under the Endowed Schools Act in 1885 in a different part of Walthamstow, temporary premises in West Avenue, and then a purpose-built site in High Street. [3] The college draws students from a wide geographical area of north and east London and from a very wide range of cultural and ethnic backgrounds. But the world shrank, the last vestiges of Empire vanished and attitudes changed, not always for the better. I arrived in Walthamstow in 1954 having been brought directly from my previous Junior School in Church Road, Leyton. Although I was unaware of it, my family apparently had a record of appendicitis problems and my mother fortunately knew the symptoms well. This in some ways was a hollow threat in the short-term as everyone had great difficulty in stopping laughing. The simple truth was there were insufficient grammar schools to accommodate large numbers of bright pupils so the system was designed to ensure that great numbers did not pass. The other was dressed up in a clowns costume and would always make silly mistakes. The lamp posts displayed the traditional black diagonal line on a white circular disc and the black line was studded with reflecting cats eyes. They were purely functional items and mainly used for sharpening pencils.
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Staff | This was closed in 1990. Ever since that visit I have always learnt how to say Good Morning, Afternoon or Evening as well as Goodbye, Thank You and Please in the language of the country I am visiting. I found myself in something of a time warp for my first year at Greenleaf Road. I still have them today. This was not because I was in any way backwards or did not understand subjects, it was simply because they were still teaching everything I had learned a year earlier at Leyton. Car technology however was not what it is today and most drivers thought they were going fast if they could achieve 50 mph. The school remained independent, but came increasingly to depend on local authority grants. The performance commenced and the man suddenly burst out into the song Figaro from the opera The Marriage of Figaro. I sometimes liken it to the metamorphosis of a caterpillar transforming into a butterfly. It’s also worth noting that this is the only exam I did not pass in my entire life. George Monoux (alderman of London and local worthy) erected the Almshouses, associated school and feast ball for the poor of Walthamstow on a former parcel of St. Mary's Churchyard in 1527 in Walthamstow Village. The headmaster finally left and myself and my siblings were the only pupils in the entire school excused homework. Although I briefly touched on school life in previous articles, as school days did have such a powerful impact on all of us for the rest of our lives, it seemed worthy of mentioning some of the highlights here. I found most teachers at the school were quite good in their subjects, it all depended on the individual pupils willingness and attentiveness to learn. I spent many happy years living in Walthamstow. There simply was no match. However with a child, they undergo a complete transformation in short period of time emerging as completely different and sometimes unrecognisable person to when they first entered school. I was only allowed to exercise for about five minutes but remarkably the next day I found I could walk reasonably normal again but quickly became tired at the effort. I think the North Circular Road outside the changing rooms was the only road in the borough to have no speed limit. In reflection I expect it just appeared so strange and alien to anything that pupils had experienced before and as such was completely comical. Facility hire | The president, who says he is feeling great, addressed supporters from the White House balcony. The borough even gave me a grant to study in France for which I am extremely grateful. The Labour party and business groups fear workers will fall through gaps in the expanded support scheme. In 1506 he was a Warden of the Drapers Company, in 1509 he became the Sheriff of Londonand later in 1514 he became Lord Mayor. A black and white striped pedestrian crossing complete with Belisha beacons was also laid out across the dummy road. From 1659 to 1968 it operated as a grammar school for boys. I also recall one morning as the first hymn of the assembly began, a teacher who played an upright piano in accompaniment to the hymn was continuously hitting wrong notes. Their keeper would allow me to feed them a few sugar lumps if I remembered to bring some. There also used to be a public house on the corner of Gainsford Road but all appear to have been converted to housing. To me it seems so timeless as well as being pleasant on the ear. As you passed the premises it was possible to see skilled carpenters making new coffins which they did in the front of the premise.
These were not the lightweight footballs of today, but more the original heavy balls made completely of leather. Gilbey – Gilby Family Tree – World Connect Project, White House rally: Trump holds first public event since Covid diagnosis, Job Support Scheme: Concern mounts at Covid shutdown 'ripple effect', Nagorno-Karabakh: Reports of fresh shelling dent ceasefire hopes, Covid: Student anger over 'junk' food parcels in isolation, Planet Mars is at its 'biggest and brightest', Coronavirus: We won't surrender North to hardship, mayor vows, France plane crash: Five killed after mid-air collision near Tours, Brexit: Boris Johnson calls Emmanuel Macron as deadline looms, Covid in Scotland: Barlinnie prisoners locked down after outbreak, Dilys Price: World's oldest female skydiver dies. Shire horses were still stabled in the Mews and used by the Holdstock Bakeries to pull their carts at a time when bread was still delivered to homes like milk. Travel was by rail all the way there. Again I was surrounded by several nurses and the ward sister. Even as a child I could sense that something ominous was afoot just by the number of nurses including the ward sister and in the way they positioned themselves around my bed. I remember once heading one of these footballs, this is easy to remember as I never headed another one again. I suppose the time one spends at a secondary school is also the period when the most dramatic changes happen to a person. I am not certain if this format still exists due to the more modern cultural and religious diversity of pupils today. Today we call it the national speed limit sign but I am not certain if it was the name used in the 1950’s. So I entered my secondary school with the grand title of William McGuffie Secondary Modern School but also nicknamed locally as “Scruffy McGuffie”. After puberty, although we still continue to age and grow, an adult is still recognisable as the same person they were years earlier. A few days later I opened the door of our house in response to a knock only for my mouth to drop open as the shape of my headmaster filled the doorway. I sat my 11 plus exam at the Sir George Monoux Grammar School. I also know that education did not cease as I walked through the school gates for the last time, it is in fact a lifelong process.
Sir George Monoux College is built on almost 500 years of history. The last entry of boys to the main Monoux building was in 1987 who were taught separately to the sixth form but within the same building in Chingford Road. Sir John Elvidge (born 1951) followed his education at Sir George Monoux Grammar School by completing a BAin English Language and Literature at St Catherine’s College, Oxford. I felt a little like Douglas Bader as I lurched around the ward trying to drag one leg in front of the other in turn. One was called flying saucers designed to look like an alien spaceship and which contained sherbet on the inside. I was in my third year at secondary school when homework was introduced, up until that time homework was unknown. Coming back to one's old school and walking around the building makes me feel like an archaeologist dating finds! It was only a few months after my arrival in Walthamstow when out shopping with my mother, I told her I had a pain in the side of my stomach to which she did no more than take me directly to the doctors, shopping bags and all. There have been many additions to the buildings since then. Enter your email address to subscribe to this blog and receive notifications of new posts by email.
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