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Post by glendabown on Apr 12, 2013 10:35:23 GMT -5
hi lee park and Gateacre Glenda smith here now Glenda Bown loved reading through this brought back happy memories of Gateacre comp remember all the teachers and school pals. the girls and the boys alvo foxy use to go to Liverpool city reeces to dance to soul and motown from age 16 up happy days lived in jones farm road now live in Dorset for over thirty years,married with two lovely grown up sons would love to here from anyone who remembers me happy days luv Glenda x
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Post by cully on Jun 17, 2013 13:08:28 GMT -5
Hi Glenda, Steve Culshaw here just read your message I don't mean to sound rude but I thought you and your Thelma went to Belle Vale , unless you meant gat comp but not to worry none of us are perfect ha . Good to know your still thinking of Lee Park & the good times had, good luck down in Dorset
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Post by carolmaher on Jun 28, 2013 5:58:22 GMT -5
Hi folks just wanted to say thanks to everyone (Ken especially) for all he memories. It has been fab reading all the stories and I will be revisiting this site very often. My family moved to Winfrith Road around 1956. I think we where the first family to move in, my parents aged 85 still live there. I myself have lived in Wambo Lane now (moved here after my divorce) for over 20 years. It was a great area to growup. Talk about a small world when I was a teenager my boyfriend was Paddy Hoare (who live next to Ken) in Beechill Close we got engaged when I was 21 but then split up a few years later. Then we met up again in 2010 (both divorced for many years) and he is my boyfriend again. It would be great to here from anyone who remembers either of us. I will come back on here when I have more time. Thanks for the memories :-D
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Post by donmaddox on Sept 9, 2013 11:56:38 GMT -5
Hi duchess I was in the swimming at Gateacre comp in my last year 1963/64 that's also when I got the bug for lifesaving and later became an instructor and examiner
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Post by macker on Sept 20, 2013 7:36:40 GMT -5
Hi all just joined this forum I usedto live in Cockshead road named after the farm and left the Comp in 1965. I really would like to see some old photos of the school years i was there if anyone should have any. Your memories are bringing back mine. I usedto play at Jackos pond .........really great reading guys Alan
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Post by alanwilson04 on Oct 5, 2013 17:22:12 GMT -5
I dont have many from when you were there (I have a few) but I did do the comprehensive (no pun intended) photo archiving of the site should you wish to meet up sometime to see some. David
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Post by scousergirl on Oct 18, 2013 12:53:32 GMT -5
Hi, I just found this blog/forum on Lee Park , so read a lot from 2004 to now. I was brought up there from 1957, now live overseas but visit Mom every year. She moved from Lee Park Ave in the last few years so I have seen the changes over 50 odd years.... Don't know any of the people mentioned, but do remember Ma Guy's shop, the co-op, even the mobile shop before the row of shops were built. Went to the Youth club, married in St Stephen's. Mom worked in the Lee Park chippy for many years, I went to Belle Vale CP and then to Childwall Valley High.( bothers and sister went to the comp and I taught there in 1992!!!) Had friends in the prefabs near the primary school and high school friend whose parents ran Belle Vale PO in the 1970's and lived above!! Will look for the book on gateacre, sounds interesting...especially to an ex-pat!
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Post by cally2108 on Nov 8, 2013 16:06:16 GMT -5
Hi all , my family moved from the prefabs on Lineside to Churchfield rd in 1965 ... We all went to OLA then Notre Dame and st Edwards. Does anyone remember a house fire on Churchfield rd in 1971 . The children were rescued but I sometimes wonder what haopened to them ? I watched the fire as I was walking home from school . I was 6 and my watched my dad go into the burning house. Have enjoyed reading these posts , lots of memories .
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Post by pinball69 on Sept 11, 2014 0:13:13 GMT -5
hi did you take pictures inside of groppies café-would be interested to see these if possible.
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Post by zorin on Mar 19, 2015 5:12:19 GMT -5
Hi Ken The photos I have are the demolition of the masionettes not the blow up of the heights if you want these you can certaintly have them no probs regards Ingrid Hi Ingrid, I married a girl from the Masonettes on Lee Park Ave in 1963. Her name was Maureen Barlow from 90a which was an upper apartment on the corner of Lee Park Ave just as the bus turned up toward the hill and the Tower Blocks. She originally lived in Handel Street, Toxteth and moved there 1956-58.We married in 1963 and migrated to Australia in 1969.....Married at the small `Our Lady of Assumption' church, Bridgefield Rd. Belle Vale Rd....or Childwall Valley Rd.? and still together, we, like others have been going over past times on `the net. Alas, as you know, they killed off the masonettes and having no external photos would be pleased to if you have any of them. Hers had a balcony but not all did!...they where built well and it is sad that they have had to be pulled down as victims of Government policy. The bungalow replacements look nice and very smart (Google) but we wonder where the people went! You may have been living close to Maureen and remember those times......Many regards Mo and Gordon
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Post by johnkw on May 31, 2015 13:08:18 GMT -5
Hi folks,
I've just come across an old letter, written in February 1965 by Harry Dixon, my old Sixth Form master at Gateacre Comp, which I'd tucked inside the school Report Book for me which he'd kindly sent out after I left. I always liked and respected Mr. Dixon, who had a very positive and formative influence on me in those days. He was an exceptional English teacher and a good-humoured and patient form master. In the latter he mentions that he's just applied for another teaching position and got it - I believe as a head master in another school, but may be wrong about that. Does anyone know what later became of him and of A.J Horrocks, my earlier Fifth Form master? And what of the gruff, kind-hearted Headmaster, Mr Hughes? I believe he retired to Wales? Strange how your thought suddenly go back in later life, half a world away, to those who had such an influence on you as teachers in your younger years!
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Post by alanwilson04 on Jun 2, 2015 17:02:05 GMT -5
I may have some videos of the previous headteachers and deputy heads lying about...
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Post by johnkw on Jun 3, 2015 9:25:49 GMT -5
Thanks for your kind offer, Alan - much appreciated. I wasn't so much interested in videos of them as much as I was mildly curious about what happened to them in later years. Memory always keeps them frozen in that time and those roles and, of course, they had lives, too. The old Comp 'moved on' to new and better things and I'm sure they did, too. I was just curious. And also just out of curiosity, too, were you the sixth former who used to like reading the 'Guardian' newspaper? For some reason that image comes to mind down through the years when I see your name...
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Post by johnkw on Jun 3, 2015 9:40:24 GMT -5
Speaking of memories, I vividly recollect Mr Hughes, the headmaster in question, announcing the hymn 'Guide Me O Thou Great Jehovah (Pilgrim Through This Barren Land)' at least once a week during Morning Assembly. I can still remember the words of it to this day! And 'I Vow To Thee, My Country (All Earthly Things Above)' - wasn't that the school hymn at the Comp back then? What uncomplicated and un-politically correct days they were when 'The Trumpet Voluntary' boomed out over the school loudspeakers and called us to Assembly at the beginning of each school day in those far-off and simpler days! I'm sadly sure neither of those hymns would be prominently sung in schools in today's PC Britain!
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Post by boycie on Aug 19, 2016 15:13:59 GMT -5
Hi Ken, I have very fond memories of Gateacre having moved there from Huyton in 1957. I think Lee Park Estate was still being built when my family moved to Widmore Road. Gateacre then was still the countryside and there were no gangs (yet) so it was a safe place to live. I went to Blessed John Almond school (now he's a Saint) with my brother Charlie, we used to catch the number 66 bus from Lee Park estate to Garston. Two of my best mates were Reggie Dixon and Pete Corbett, anyone remember them? I used to work in Old Ma Guys shop on a Saturday. I wish I had a time machine and could go back to Gateacre in 1961 because that was the greatest time of my life, I have very happy memories of the prefabs around the Besford Road area, I believe they have all been demolished along with another place that I remember very well, Childwall Valley High School. I haven't much time at the moment but I will be back at a future date with some of my memories, mostly good, some bad. JimHughes P.S. Do any of you remember Stanner Gwilt?, I think that was how you spelt his name, he was the leader of one of the local gangs. Also, do you have any memories of Groppies at Childwall Fiveways? Good old George Groppie.
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