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Janet Anderton wrote this item:
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The School Hall at
the time of opening in 1958 |
Having been in place since at least the opening
of the new school, the brick-red patterned hall curtains were in a
sorry state of repair and so, during the 1980's it was decided to
replace them. An innovative fund-raising scheme was set in
place by the Parent Teachers Association, whereby anyone who
contributed money towards the replacement of the curtains would have
their name inscribed on a plaque which would be hung on the wall in
the entrance hall. Participants, eager to get their name
inscribed for posterity, soon raised the money and within a few
months, the new curtains were proudly hung around the sides of the
hall and across the stage.
A very short time passed and the
annual School Fayre took place on a Saturday afternoon.
When we all trooped into school on the following Monday, we could
see something didn't look quite right, but we couldn't make out what
was different. Suddenly someone realised that the hall and
stage were totally bereft of curtains and it was believed that
someone had hidden themselves away after the Fayre and stolen them!
With just enough money remaining, it was left to a member of the PTA
to approach the elderly retired lady who had spent days and days
cutting up and sewing the material into curtains, to see if she
would make some more. She had already said that she never
wanted to sew up any more curtains in her life, so you can imagine
her horror when she was asked to do the job all over again.
There was no truth in the rumour which swept through the school
following the theft of the curtains that each house at Church
Brampton had sets of identical curtains hung at their windows!!
[The then headmaster lived there] |
