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Barbara Buckingham - Reeth...

I was at Reeth School for the beginning of the Second World War. The war affected our school days very much, in the sense that it interrupted it. The continuity went because we kept getting children and teachers who’d come in from Gateshead...

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Eleanor Scarr - Bainbridge...

I was born at Thornton Rust in 1947. There was no school in Thornton Rust, it shut in about the 1930s, so Bainbridge was our primary school. You went the term that you were five, so for me it would be September because my birthday is in...

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Basil Allen - Hawes School, 1940s

Hawes when it was a day school kept the sexes separate, with separate door entrances and even separate external gates to go in. The entrance on Main Street that is now blocked up was the headmaster’s house. There used to be a big garden at...

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Jean Cockburn - Aysgarth...

I would go when I was five years old, to the Aysgarth School. Me two cousins would take me, just on their own, we used to walk on. Where the surgery is now, that was the school. And we had a teacher in one room, Miss Heseltine, which you started...

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Brian and Jennie Sunter

We loved meeting this well-known Swaledale couple and recording their school stories from Low Row and Keld in the 40s. Brian and Jennie Sunter have been married for 61 years and speak in resonating...

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