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As you walk along the main corridor from the vitreum towards the dining room, passing the offices, biology lab 3 and the magnificent staircase do you ever wonder who lived in the house before it became part of our school?The beautiful carvings...
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Life After School? I was turfed out of the Upper Fifth after Christmas in 1956 for being an indolent thick-o, which was a fair assessment. A few months at Southport Tech brought my GCE passes to a respectable level and then it was time for National...
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In spring 1955, whilst a pupil at Crosby Rd Primary School, I passed the 11+ examination, commonly called ‘the scholarship', followed by the entrance examination for MTS. As a new boy, I felt immersed in a cauldron of confusion and...
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Northern Counties Athletic Association Hurdles Champion 1946 John started at Merchant Taylors' Boys' School, Crosby, in 1938 and was educated here at the time of WW2. It was during his later years at school that his sporting prowess was developed....
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Harrison House, now demolished, comprised three large linked houses (6-10 College Avenue) and was term-time home for about 40 boys aged from 9 to 18. My memories of nine years there seem, in retrospect, to feature several austere aspects which...
