village School

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I stumbled across this site by accident.What memories!I grew up in boughton in the 60's and attended the village school.Mr Mellor was the headmaster,i remember teachers Mrs Benstead and Mrs Reid and Mrs Poulton. We had coal fires in the corner of the class rooms, there was only four,each room led of the hall. The toilets were in a block at the end of the playground,of which there was 2,the older children had a seperate area.The sports equipment was stored in old air raid shelters(at least i think thats what it was). Does any remember joining the crocodile of children going to lunch in the canteen down the road, what an honour it was to picked to scrap the plates and the end of dinner, (later i think it became Anthony Opie antiques). The mobile dentist that came,I can still see and smell that van when i hear the georgie fame record yeh yeh. I think the lollipop lady was a Mrs White and i am sure she also served as a dinner lady. The bottles of milk, we drank at playtime warm in summer icy in winter, is to blame for my dislike of milk.
Did any of you attend brownies/guides held in the school hall, i vividly remember jumping over the toadstall to join the guides. ,
I now live in berkshire, I would love to take stroll around the village when i next visit kent. If you attended the village school between 1960 and 66 what do you remember?