Grandma's School Photo

[dennford]

Well Well!
       Why didn't I think of that.
                                                        Thanks deadants

[deadants]

I remember sitting in a classroom just like this one. unpolised floorboards with ink stains. We use to have a bottle of swan ink sitting in the inkwell hole. Just as I got to sixth class, we were allowed to use fountain pens. The rich kids had the cartridges and the rest of us still used the inkwell. The fountain pen I had, had a little lever you pulled out that sucked the ink into the fountain pen. We were only allowed to use ballpoint pens for maths I think.

[dennford]

Very similar memories,
      I remember the ink monitor used to mix the fresh ink every morning from a powder. Mind you I reckon the most fun memories must have been tearing off smallpieces of blotting paper - soaking them in ink and then flicking the "ink bombs" off the end of a ruler; great fun so long as you didn't get caught!
                                            Denn

[deadants]

I completely forgot about the ink powder and blotting paper, It's all coming back now. I remember the desks were double seaters that had wrought iron sides in a fancy floral design if I remember correctly. Man, I can almost smell that classroom now.

[liverpool annie]

Boy!

You guys must be VERY VERY old!!
Ink powder?? little levers?

 

[deadants]

No, not old. I just went to a catholic primary school run by Nuns who thought ballpoints were just a fad. I was in my first year of high school when Armstong walkled on the moon. I missed a double math period that day. That should give you an idea of how old I am.

[Man of Kent]

I went to school in the 50's, and believe it or not learned to write on a small hand held Blackboard.

[deadants]

I went to school in the 50's, and believe it or not learned to write on a small hand held Blackboard.

Well, I'm not quite that old. I know my mother had a slate and chalk but that would have been around 1935 to 1940 or there abouts. I wonder if the kids of today will be having this conversation. "I learned to read and write on a handheld PDA" 

[dennford]

Not that old either,
      But us people from cloth hat country always did things harder than everyone else - "ee lad tha can't tell us nowt abaht ard times"
      By the way, when I dig them out I may scan some of me mams or my  owd school reports that I got hold of recently, if it's of any interest to see what teachers used to write about us.
       Mam 1930s
       me    1950s

                                         Denn