London Past & Present: Schools
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- Опубликовано: 17 окт 2024
- This film features children from Peckham Park School preparing for a play they will perform about life in a Victorian school. To set the scene, a series of schools across London are looked at including Peckham Park and Hortensia Road School (Chelsea), accompanied by a brief history of the London School Board and Education Act of 1870.
An old pupil of Peckham Park School is interviewed to share his memories of Victorian school life, in particular, he discusses punishment and school dinners. Different types of information available about school life, and the ways to find it, are detailed including records held by the Headmaster at Peckham Park school.
Date: 1970
Reference No: ILEA/VID/01/1631
Collection: ILEA
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I left Peckham Park Primary school in 1969 and the bearded teacher in this clip is my old teacher- Mr Neal -he was the coolest dude who rode to school on a panda-pattered scooter and a huge brown anorak. In the summer he’d take the class on trips at the weekend -at his own expense and we all loved him - he was so creative and he inspired me to go into science -I guess that he has probably passed away by now but I wish I could thank him for just being brilliant
Went to peckham park from 1973-1978 and loved every minute and the two teachers in the film were two of my sisters teachers...the end shot of the school was filmed from the top floor of my block of flats.
I lived at 115 Friary Road (Harlow Stores) from 1944 to 1961 (when we were rehoused to Catford, indoor toilet, hot water and a bathroom!!)
and of course attended Peckham Park School from 1948, although living so close I was invariably late!
I was told that SBL stood for "Stand Back for Learning" !!
We still had gas lighting and there was a big event when they converted us to electric, some local dignitary (mayor??) came and we were all in the playground while speeches were made, I understood PP was the LAST school in London to convert to electric light.
Now I'm retired and living in Florida but have warm memories of my childhood playing on the bomb sites.
This video is so interesting. Love history and cannot believe how quickly history repeats itself.
I went to this school in 1954 to 1959, one of my friends lived in that house facing the school, she was late nearly every day, ha, ha. I also remember an older girl bulling me, a teacher caught her & sent her to the headmasters office which was at the top of some narrow twisting stairs, where the Headmaster gave her the cane, she never bothered me again.
I turned off my dumb T.V to watch this and this was fascinating
The elderly man was very interesting
Could’ve done with a show to himself
I went to Peckham park for a short time In 19-76, then to monson, seems long ago now...
No Way! Conrad?
wow this video was brilliant, especially as i went to this school from 52-58 and loved going there, i also lived in friary road as well,
At 10:30 absenteeism from school among poor family's children is mentioned. In south London schools, possibly other London schools as well, of the 'the logbook time described' complete family's hiked or travelled by horse 'n cart out of London down a dusty pitted Old Kent Road to the Kent hop fields for the hop picking season. This meant schools could be depleted of a majority of pupils for the summer weeks as poor families flocked to earn ready cash from huge Victorian and Edwardian beer industries needing pickers of hops in the Kent fields by camped-out onsite family groups of so many London pickers. I have read about such a hop-picking event in an old Bermondsey St. Saviours school logbook that gave the heartfelt log in their book that there was little could or should be done when destitute slum-dwelling families sort to desperately sustain themselves with hard won daily bread.
My bad. All OK now.
Scarlet Fever the mum comes in to tell the teacher her child has it, and she holds another child, and good to see the scruffy teacher from the 60's did his tie up, I went to a school which celebrated its centenary, it was a scary place, cane slipper
The sound is fucked