Hillcrest School

The school has just been rebuilt 2016/2017. I remember the first one being constructed as we lived next door to it. The bulldozer drivers used to let us ride aboard and even have a go. We thought it was good of the council to build the hockey (it was all girls then) pitches at the back of our garden as it gave us ready made football pitches complete with goals. We could always run faster than the caretaker.........

likewise! - we used to bunk over the fence to use the Tennis Courts with friends in the summer evenings, or kick a ball on the pitches.......

Was this the site of the Old Red Lake girls school?

Hi ladies and gentlemen, I hope you are all fine. I went to this school for about 4 years and left about 1958. I have very happy memories of my time there and loved both my school teachers and class mates.
I wonder if anyone can remember me which I very much I doubt as it would very difficult for me to remember my class mates. We have all moved on, haven't we, and some of us have become parents and grandparents. I originally lived in St. Leonard's and came to school by bus every day.

The Grove was my first post as a new Teacher. I had a fantastic introduction to the profession there and the kids were fabulous from the A Level Economics students bound for University to the bottom set third year history pupils who would rather be in the arcades but still made me laugh every day.