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Post by goldfish on Oct 19, 2008 0:24:12 GMT 1
Hello I have a few Dowlais school photographs from 1958 to 1961 If anyone would like a copy please let me have your e-mail address. I will also post them on the site when I find out how to do it. It will also be very nice to hear from pupils of that school and see how things have gone for them over the years. I’ve had a good life and done a lot of travelling as well as living abroad in different countries. It was a good school, however, that headmistress in the junior school was a pregnant dog! And I mean that. I speak with old friends and I’ve yet to hear a good word for her. It makes me laugh when I hear some of the complaints about teachers today. If they had the treatment that was dished out then, they’d call in the police, and rightly so in some cases. So you youngsters of today you have a GREAT schooling, and from what I see teachers are so dedicated and very helpful too. Count your lucky stars that you didn’t have some of the ones we had ha ha but its TRUE!  |
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Post by brianhumphreyso on Jun 24, 2009 20:26:17 GMT 1
Hello I have a few Dowlais school photographs from 1958 to 1961 If anyone would like a copy please let me have your e-mail address. I will also post them on the site when I find out how to do it. It will also be very nice to hear from pupils of that school and see how things have gone for them over the years. I’ve had a good life and done a lot of travelling as well as living abroad in different countries. It was a good school, however, that headmistress in the junior school was a pregnant dog! And I mean that. I speak with old friends and I’ve yet to hear a good word for her. It makes me laugh when I hear some of the complaints about teachers today. If they had the treatment that was dished out then, they’d call in the police, and rightly so in some cases. So you youngsters of today you have a GREAT schooling, and from what I see teachers are so dedicated and very helpful too. Count your lucky stars that you didn’t have some of the ones we had ha ha but its TRUE! |
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Post by brianhumphreyso on Jun 24, 2009 20:34:57 GMT 1
I have just joined and not sure how to post a question but schools seems a good starting point.
I have just learned that my father, Henry George Humphrys was born at Ivor Junction Cottages, Dowlais in December 1906.
When aged 4 they lived at 5 Davies Street Penywern, Dowlais.
Can anyone tell me:-
1. What school he would have gone to?
2. He said that he Metriculated? - I guess something similar to passing 11 plus. So what senior school would this have taken him to?
3. Can anyone tell me anything about Ivor Junction Cottages? His Dad was a Railway Signal Fitter so I guess it was near the Railway.
4. Can anyone tell me if Davies Street is still standing.
5. Where would the archives be for this sort of information.
Many thanks in anticipation.
Brian
This comes from years of not knowing that he was born with a differently spelt surname than the one he handed down to me and thanks to the 1911 census being completed for Wales.
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Post by cos on Jun 25, 2009 13:18:41 GMT 1
yes davies street is still there, my house looks straight on to it, number 5 its the top house on the right hand side and it looks over the fly over of the heads of the valley a465, our friend use to live there they bought a house over dowlais top and his mother use to have the hair dresser in top dowlais high street
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Post by rachelb on Jun 29, 2009 10:01:59 GMT 1
Matriculated, was not the 11 plus, but the exam taken at about age 16. It was often referred to as 'the matric', but was really the examination of the then Central Welsh Board (of Education) it was a stiff test as to qualify for the 'matric' you had to have a regulation number of subjects and these had to include Mathematics, among other things. I don't have more details to hand, but you could contact
the Welsh Joint Education Committee in I think, Cathedral Road, Cardiff. They would probably be able to give you details of what he passed and when. Remember to give both spellings of his name, as the one is an Anglicization of the other.
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Post by dragon123 on Aug 3, 2009 18:22:21 GMT 1
THERE WAS A GIRL CALLED JANET/JANICE PARRY IN DOWLAIS SCHOOL IN THE 60;S DOES ANYBODY KNOW IF SHE STILL LIVES IN MERTHYR
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Post by dragon123 on Aug 13, 2009 20:12:12 GMT 1
there is a picture of jean jones in dowlais central school is she still in merthyr
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Post by doghouseriley on Sept 16, 2009 10:36:32 GMT 1
My Grandfather was Felix Wilfred Arscott, born 1910, he passed the entrance exam for Cyfarthfa School. I have contacted the school regarding his records and they say that they don't have them. I asked where they were and did not get a reply. Does anyone here know where I might find them? Many Thanks. Gareth
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Post by rachelb on Sept 17, 2009 0:10:04 GMT 1
Try the Merthyr Library, Carolyn Jacob is very helpful and very knowledgable
Sincerely, Rachel Bowen on holiday in Canada.
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Post by colin on Mar 3, 2010 5:34:51 GMT 1
I was there in the early 60's, would love to meet up with old friends.
Colin Davies
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