The Infants School (known as the Little School) 1938 to 1939

On my first day at school, aged 4, I can still see headmistress 

Miss Cross leading me by the hand through the big hall to the 

"bubs" classroom where I met my first teacher Miss Lawson, a tallish, 

thin lady, with grey hair tied in a bun. She always wore lisle 

stockings and a very good girl or boys would sometimes be invited 

to help themselves to a chocolate from the bag she kept in her cupboard. 

My other memory of the "bubs" is the b...