For Tilly2

[MissTerious2]

Just to say, it was Bromham we moved to. Just a nice country village then with a lovely bridge that set it apart. Not so good now! Seems to have joined Biddenham and then Bedford. I think we had a chat about it at one time.

[pastafreak]

I remember attending the interview at pilgrim with my daughter. She was just 8 at the time . It was a bit daunting
She absolutely loved it there...it had a comforting atmosphere for children

[pastafreak]

Albans middle was at great Barford....just done the road from us

[Tilly2]

Now closed down and the children shipped off to Sandy, St. Neots and Biggleswade, Pasta.

[pastafreak]

Gosh, an awful lot schools have closed.

When we found our little house in Blunham, it felt like destiny to me. A couple of villages over was one that had my(pre marriage maiden) name.

[MissTerious2]

All these schools mentioned were not there when I lived in Bromham. And now they are gone!

The only secondary schools I remember are Bedford School, de Parys Avenue, Bedford Modern School, Dame Alice Harpur and The Convent School. Pilgrims sounds familiar. Was it out of Bedford southwards?

I would love to have stayed in my Wimbledon School, but obviously at just turned 15 I had to be with my parents. I did settle in at Dame Alice but soon realised that the petty rules turned it into St Trinians so joined in!!

[pastafreak]

I just looked at a map of Bedford and of course got distracted looking at changes. The new Pilgrim school is north of the city centre...as was the old school. My daughter generally took a school bus, but I sometimes met her at school and we'd take the bus home...it was possibly a 10 minute walk. I have a distinct memory of arriving there one afternoon and getting a migraine.

[MissTerious2]

This has become a Bedford thread. The school I was thinking of was a secondary modern school somewhere out in the Shefford direction. So that wasn't Pilgrim. Our neighbours sons went there in school bus. When I got married we moved to Letchworth in Hertfordshire to be near Luton Airport where Mr T worked. I then found a job there but with a different Airline. From the there we decided to leave the ratrace and bought our semi derelict cottage in Norfolk. 44+ years ago now.

[campbellking]

Possibly Shefford County school ( now Robert Bloomfield). My Mum and her three sisters all went to Stratton in Biggleswade which was a grammar school then ( 1950s) as there were no grammar schools in Bedford at the time. All left at 16 as needed to go out and earn money

[MissTerious2]

Yes it was Shefford CK And you have now reminded me of Stratton. I didn't know anyone who went there.

[Tilly2]

I taught at Robert Bloomfield for seventeen years and it's still open! :-)

[MissTerious2]

Nice to see all these connections!

[Tilly2]

Yes, it is.

[Tilly2]

Miss T, was it when you lived in Bromham that the neighbours' children went to what might have been Shefford County school?
I'ts a long way to go.