Comments on: Cecile Moss of Old Montague St

By: Una Barry

Una Barry — Tue, 01 Feb 2022 10:30:02 +0000

John, I remember you and your mum too very well and veey warmly. All along time ago now and we’re all pushing 70 now, and gone our separate ways! Mybemail is:una@unabarry.com x

By: John Vivian

John Vivian — Sun, 10 Jan 2021 21:05:46 +0000

I also remember Mrs Moss when I attended St Agnes (coincidentally at the same time as Una Barry – above). I too remember the small black boards that we used to practice out writing, filling the board with the same character time after time. My handwriting still reflects some of the ways in which I was taught by the marvellous teacher.

My memories are of a very kind and patient teacher for which nothing was too much trouble.

I went on to St Bernard’s School in Bethnal Green from St Agnes,

By: Una Barry

Una Barry — Mon, 06 May 2019 10:19:37 +0000

What memories! I remember you so.well. You look a million dollars! My younger brother, Michael and I were both taught at the age of five at St Agnes’s, Bow. She taught us both how to read and write! You were always such a good athlete! Rest on my website!!! Una X

By: Una Barry

Una Barry — Mon, 02 Oct 2017 20:54:51 +0000

I am Una Barry, and Mrs Moss was my very first teacher at Primary School in 1958. She taught me how to read and write, and can still see myself there with a little blackboard the size of today’s smaller laptop, copying out the No 2 until the board was filled. If she approved, then onto No 3, and Janet & John Books to learn how to read from.

Cecile Moss I thought was at St Agnes’s School in Bow and I think older than me, but I remember her as a great runner and particularly when we had sports days in Fairlop and in Victoria Park.

I went to St Victoire’s from 1964 to 1971, and then went on to music college to become a classical singer. My mum was the church organist at St Catherine’s after Sr Damian, who was the next class up from Mrs Moss, left to be sent to a different convent -Homerton to Colywn Bay I think, or she might have gone to Hillingdon in between times. My brother’s middle name is Damian, and my parents chose that name in tribute to Sr Damian.

By: Kate madden

Kate madden — Sat, 17 Jun 2017 06:33:02 +0000

Hi Linda-would love to get in touch and talk about ‘old times ‘. So if you see this – email me please -have tried other ways of getting in touch with you without any luck

By: Linda Smith (nee Coffey)

Linda Smith (nee Coffey) — Wed, 06 Jul 2016 11:15:01 +0000

Amazing piece! Not only for the content, but for the memories evoked. I too remember Cecile from St Victoire’s although she was younger than us – she still looks the same. As Kate Buckley (Madden) says she was a terrific athlete and if she wasn’t winning then Lizzie Braham was. Kate wasn’t a slouch at the running game either. I seem to remember her breaking her collar bone (Kate that is) at one school sports day. I was also on the school trip to Switzerland that Jean Sullivan (Folkard) mentions and also have photos to prove it. Kate and I were great mates at school and after, but we lost touch – would love to catch up. If you see this Kate, do you remember going to a college for ‘BookcReeping and AccRounts’ . The teacher (a Mister Greensomething as I remember) had trouble pronouncing the subject properly which caused endless mirth. Margaret Jordan used to go with us. Jean and I and Cherril Martin got together for a while after we went to a St Vic’s reunion a few years back. Then I moved away from London and we lost touch again.

By: Kathleen Madden (nee Buckley)

Kathleen Madden (nee Buckley) — Sun, 15 Feb 2015 23:25:32 +0000

I remember Cecile from St. Victoires School. She’s younger than me but I remember her as she was a terrific runner and good at most sports . I was always jealous as it was either her or Lizzie Brahams who won the sprint races!! She was also in the netball team.

By: Sheila hall nee Everett

Sheila hall nee Everett — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 19:41:47 +0000

I remember Cecile & her mum Miss Moss she taught reception class at St Agnes school in Bow, her mum was a lovely kind sweet gentle teacher, nice to read her story. I left St Agnes to go to St Victoires in 1960

By: Jean Folkard nee Sullivan

Jean Folkard nee Sullivan — Wed, 10 Dec 2014 20:25:42 +0000

I remember Cecile from St Victoires Convent grammar school. In 1965 we went to Switzerland with the school. I have a photograph of some of the girls including myself and Cecile. I’m so pleased she is doing well.

By: Jeannette

Jeannette — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 18:06:07 +0000

i love to hear the stories of how the children, themselves, coped. one cried, one didn’t. the irish boy protected her until her mother wouldn’t let her play in the street any more. the somali men missed their little girls. and now as a teacher herself she passes the understanding on.
oh brave new world, that has such creatures in it. (that would be miss cecile’s rubbish, i b’lieve.)