3.+1935+-1955

Mr Jo Butterfield Registered 29/4/35 721 Roll Number I was transferred to Kinson Primary School early in 1935 from a small private school in Moordown. At this time Kinson divided between the very old school building, adjoining Milhams Lane on site near where Lloyds Bank is now. This building was known as the Woman’s Institute, was built, as far as I can remember, of corrugated iron panel, painted green. It was quite a long building and was used for classes, of which I was in one. My teacher was Miss Ford and I think the teacher of the younger class was Miss Maning. Soon after I stared there, the Silver Jubilee Celebrations took place throughout the country, King George V & Queen Mary. At Kinson School there was an entertainment and tea for the pupils. This was on Tuesday 7th May, 1935. This took place at the Woman’s Institute. I am amongst these pupils at one end of one of the long tables and can recognise Freddy Tons at another. We both eventually had careers in insurance. Sometime after my class transferred over the road to the main school, which had two classes, my teacher Miss Hutley. There was a playground and during the appropriate season, boys tended to concentrate on marbles and conkers. There were no ‘school meals’, in those days, as far as I can recall, so with several other boys, I had 4 walks each day from school to home for me. This was to Northbourne Avenue, where I still live today. The Headmistress, Miss Ward, took a keen interest of all pupils and mothers where always asked when dual activities occurred. The eventual transfer to the present school, a brand new building was a major event for Kinson. I was placed in a classroom towards the Poole Lane end. The big hall enabled activities to take place, including P.T. and country dancing. Not an enthusiasm of mine. My teacher throughout Junior School period was Miss Stanton and I was there until July 1939. A coronation tea took place in the school hall in the 1937 and a number of parents assisted in that, including my mother. Mr. J. Butterfield will visit Kinson School on 23rd May, 2011 to attend school assembly, the first time since he left the school. Children from the Pass Memories On Team will accompany him around the school and gather memories via a USB microphone. They will help to add further memories to the Wiki then.



Rodney Haskell 1953-1955 Miss Lilian Ward ,Headteacher

I enjoyed being in the Infant`s classroom which we used to call Brookside. Home was a stone`s throw away at the Dolphin Fisheries. We knew Mr Barber who ran the Dolphin Inn and the Smith family who owned a sweet shop which until recently was known as Kinson News. Play was confined to small playgrounds and the field was a cricket ground and did not belong to the School.

Adventures around Kinson have always been enjoyable and still are many years later. Being raised on fish and chips, it is not surprising that I went home to dinner and not for me two dried lettuce leaves and other healthy foods we are encouraged to eat today! Another favourite journey of mine was sitting on board a South Western Mineral Water lorry and being taken on a journey to Wimborne and back, stopping off for a cup of tea and a juicy bun at a roadside cafe. How many people would let their children out of their sights to go on such journeys today?

I also admit that once I went home to dinner and I forgot to come back again! Instead, I was happily playing in my own little world with a friend`s submarine in an alleyway just off School Lane. When my mother found me, I was marched back into school promptly and given a strict telling off! On another occasion a sixpence rolled under my right shoe in the dinner centre and I put my foot on it. Miss Ward saw me do this and ensured that I gave the sixpence back to the child who had dropped it.

Going to Kinson School was a happy adventure for me and still is now. Perhaps my most exciting adventure was exploring Kinson Common and walking home through the school field and under a pile of logs, my older friends found a service revolver. We started to play with it like cowboys and indians and when we reached the Dolphin Inn and the Dolphin Fisheries, our parents were very alarmed to see us with this gun. It was taken away and handed into the Police. A story appeared in a local newspaper.

In later years, I was very fortunate to meet Miss Ward again and to write some of her memories down in connection with a book about the History of Kinson School in 1986. Her memories were sharp and vivid and she could recall the names of countless children she had taught. In her home there was, no television, life was simple and she greatly enjoyed listening to her radio. It is not every day that one can say that one drank two cups of cocoa in a headteacher`s home, way past half-past-ten at night!

Perhaps my funniest moment was seeing Mr John Miles, another past Headteacher of Kinson School, wobble around the school playground on a brand new bike given to him as a leaving present by parents and friends.

Encouraged by one of Mrs Newman`s excellent computer helpers, I have also been asked to mention perhaps my most painful adventure. As a Kinson councillor I was invited to play in the Mayor of Bournemouth`s Cricket XI. I was bowled out for 4 by a man who once did a famous cornflake advertisement. As a fielder, I later missed a catch and the ball hit me on the forehead. The Mayor, a doctor, summoned his official rolles and I went to Boscombe hospital for treatment which was prompt considering the number of dignatories around me. I later returned to the cricket match tea resembling Roger Federer as I was wearing a very smart headband.

Colin Hanby 1951/1957

The first time i steped into the classroom i didn't like it i didn't like my class room the teacher i don't remember her name she gave me a red racing car to calm me down and i threw it across the classroom. When we all the new children had arrived in the classroom for the term we were taken to our seperate classroom,mine was Mr Buddern class he used to cane me alott because i couldn't keep up with the work,but years later it was recognized i had dislexia but they didn't recognise it in those days. My favourite lessons were art and sports day(i was very good at sport)and later i went on to represent the county in sport. My favourite teachers were Mr Windell and Mrs Redstone she gave me sweets(to make me behave). We used to have a cap badge it is triangular badge with a K on top. We used to take walks around kinson common and west howe common for nature study we didn't know where one started and one finished.

<span style="color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; line-height: 0px; overflow: hidden;"> Jim Chenery 1940 - 1948 I have just been reading the history of Miss Lilian Ward, on your website and was so pleased to find it. My name is James (Jim) Chenery and I with my two sisters and three brothers, were pupils at Kinson School from about 1940 to our return to Southampton in 1948. We were evacuees and after various moves and seperations in the family, we were fortunate to have a home together near kinson. In miss Wards write up it is mentioned about the sailors and soldiers being put up in the school. This must have been following the big evacuation from Dunkirk and at that time I was an evacuee in Boscombe and on my way to school that morning, which was just the width of the road away from my then home, I took the long way to school which took me down to the Boscombe Arcade. It was full of soldiers and as I walked through the arcade among them, they were called up and formed up to march up the Wimborne Road. I followed them for a while and then was put in the ranks marching with them. We turned left down Ashley road, past my school, and then up through Kings and Queens Parks. At the top of the parks they fell out under the trees and people from the houses nearby brought out Drinks. We the marched back through the parks to the school near the park entrance. During our stop under the trees one of the soldiers gave me his cap. At the school I was sitting on the wall talking to the soldiers when the lady I was staying with came along and took me up the road to school. The headmaster didn't punish me, but took my new soldiers hat from me. I have often wondered what happened to that hat. So perhaps some of my soldiers from that day finally arrived with you at Kinson School. I have many fond memories of Miss Ward and yes she was so kind to us as a family, all that is said of her in that writeup I fully agree with. I was in Kinson visiting my older sister on Wednesday and went to where we lived during the war, trying to trace a school friend of those days, Courtney Smith, but I haven't had any success to date. We are 77 years old now, so perhaps I have left it a bit late, he last visited me in Southampton in 1950, he was in the merchant navy at that time. I do hope this little e mail will be of interest to you and I do like your website, it has brought back so many memories. Looking at the list of pupils on the school registers, the name of Merrifield came up and there was a family of Merrifields that lived just a few doors away from us in West Howe Road. One of the boys rode with me up to Southampton during the war on bikes so big that we couldn't reach the pedals from the saddles, So we were sitting on the back mudgards and just managed. On the way back to Kinson we were stopped in Christchurch High St, by a policeman and told to walk. We did for a few yards! Jim Chenery

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Hazel Thorby (Stone) 1949-1952
== In 1949 my family moved to Kinson and my late sister Valerie, Aged 9 and I, Hazel (Stone), aged 8, went to Kinson junior school until we were 11 years old. We were both in the same class until we left and went to senior school. At that time the headmistress was Miss Ward. We very much enjoyed being at the school and being involved in the school sports. My best friends were Nicky Cole and Jackie Davy. Occasionally we went to Pelham’s for nature study, collecting leaves and fir cones and take them back to school to draw them. The things I remember about Kinson itself was the flower show when we saved up to buy the plants, flowers and craft items. I particularly remember Pavey’s bakery as they sold lovely bread, hot cross buns and lovely cakes. When I was 13 I did a paper round for smiths in Kinson and delivered them up to Bear Cross. At weekends we went to watch my father and my brother Bill play cricket. Other weekends we went to Longham to have a picnic and fish in the river. We also bathed in the river in the summer. My most vivid memory is of the school hall during the Harvest Festival. The whole stage appeared to be completely covered with the bright colours of fresh fruit and vegetables which was boxed up and delivered to older people in Kinson. Because I enjoyed my schooldays so much I started up a project with my late husband martin called “Kinson school and village memories “ which has been very successful and reunited many old school friends, including children who were evacuated to Kinson school from Southampton. I was very lucky to get lottery funding to get started. This project is still ongoing and I am always looking for new photographs to add to my collection. I often have exhibitions of these photographs on display boards in the main corridor at Kinson community centre, also in their café, and display them in their main hall whenever they have their table top sale. I supplied most of the photographs for the large mural at the back of the Kinson hub library. I have also loaned pictures to lot of people that have been shown at local fetes church halls day centres flower shows and many more events it is my full intention to keep this project going as long as possible. == == ==

Ron Penny 1945-1951
== I was born in Kinson, down in Horsham Avenue. I remember the American soldiers coming along Wimborne Road. Tanks and Lorries. Children watching them. Soldiers were throwing sweets and chewing gum.We had no toys and we had to make our own fun. We used to make camps and pretend to be soldiers. I was once tied up and captured by the Kinson Grove Gang and had to be rescued by one of the boys sisters. One of my teachers was Mrs Tidmarsh. She was very posh because her husband dropped her off by car. There weren't very many cars in those days. Occasionly, she used to bring in a egg into the class room and we had to find it. We used to walk on nature trails up on Kinson Common. We used to take batteries to the garage at the top of Horsham Avenue to be recharged. Milk was delivered by Mr Reg Short of Manor Farm in a three wheeler trike. We had to go out with some jugs and had to fill it up. I played football for the school team. I was the goalkeeper. We had a good team. Mr Windell took us to the games. My sister, Joan, was the school secretary when I was there. When I was naughty, she would go home and tell my mother! ==

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Joan McGuire(Nee Penny) 1937 I started at Kinson School in September 1937 and remember the teachers Miss Bretton, Miss Willis, Miss Headley, Mrs Barrett, Miss Perry (later Mrs Roberts), Mrs Redstone and Miss Hutley. I remember country dancing and having lessonsof poetry, sums and composition. Mrs Barrett played the piano in assembly. There were 9 children in the Penny family, 6 boys and 3 girlss and they all attended Kinson School. Mr. Penny repaired the school bell. When I left school I worked as the secretary to the Headmistress of Kinson School, Miss Ward. One of my jobs was to check the milk supplies(children had 1/3 pint bottle of milk to drink every day). Milk monitors took milk to teh classrooms. There were usually 42-44 children in each class. Another job I has was to collect the dinner money and take it to teh post office. Mrs Reville and Mrs Coombs were the cooks, Mrs Millward was a dinner lady. I also used to ring the bell at playtime.