I found Frank Dixon's article "Reminiscences" extremely interesting. I arrived at the school in April 1951 when the Ingoldisthorpe school garden was a playing field and running track. It was therefore interesting to hear that it had just been transformed from a jungle. And what fun that must have been for the boys. The best I managed was to cut the grass with that large motor mower and the Allen scythe. How nobody had their hands or feet chopped off I shall never know.
The arrival of the projector was certainly a landmark and for all those who later became members of the film team and a new interest. Apart from the Saturday evening film shows (Ingoldisthorpe) and Sunday evening socials (Heacham) and the Summer fetes (Heacham) we also drove around various Norfolk villages to show films, which was an added escape and excuse for extended driving trips.
Thank you Frank for finding new interesting information which most of us were unaware of.
I had a senior moment the other day and recalled another of those really irritating songs that were so popular at St M's. Please do NOT ask me to sing it!
On top of spaghetti all covered in cheese, I lost my poor meatball when somebody sneezed. It rolled off the table and on to the floor, and then my poor meatball rolled out of the door.
I can't remember any more than that, perhaps a competition to see who knows the rest of it although I can't recall anyone singing any more than that. Usually they got thumped, pelted with pillows etc!
