Comments on: At The Central Foundation School For Girls in Spital Sq

By: Jackie Haralambos nee jacqueline cole

Jackie Haralambos nee jacqueline cole — Wed, 06 Feb 2019 18:24:23 +0000

my sister and I both attended school in the l960s – had no idea that I would be able to find any info regarding our school!!! What a surprise and I have to say a bit of a shock!! I can clearly remember Mrs Dunford arriving as a young new teacher, who always smelt of some mysterious gorgeous perfume -a breath of fresh air. I have never considered a reunion………….however……might it be on the cards.? My school days are long behind me and my memories of those days are a little hazy except that I do remember an art teacher, the bottle green of the uniform and the berets! Heaven help you if you were seen travelling home without the beret – I think it merited a detention or conduct mark – am I wrong?? My elder sister aged late 70s’ now lives in Australia and I shall of course mention all this to her. Her name was Georgina Cole. Is there anyone around who can remember either of us. jackie

Are there any ladies out there who remember either of us – would be intersted to hear from anyone old enough who might remember us.

By: Christine Rhodes (nee Fuller)

Christine Rhodes (nee Fuller) — Tue, 07 Mar 2017 18:58:01 +0000

I was there 1964 – 1968. I was friends with Grace, she was such a laugh. She also got suspended for going to see the Rolling Stones. Her photo appeared on the front cover of the Guardian, which Mrs Dunfored read so she had no excuse for being off school.
I got into a lot of trouble myself but it was a great time and so glad I went there. Although I didn’t take advantage of the education that was offered I have had comments from people saying they can tell I went to a grammar school. Happy days.
Let me know if there is another reunion

By: Pauline Cook

Pauline Cook — Fri, 15 Apr 2016 15:31:40 +0000

I am rather late to the party but what a treat this article has been.

I had forgotten all about the smell of rotting vegetables from the market in the summer.

Miss Russell…….”Cat. Scat. Atta her, atta her”
Was she a little eccentric? I have looked for Bertrand Russell on google images and he looks exactly as I remember her.

I was in form 1H in 1968 and can still remember the dreaded cross country St Buckhurst Hill.

By: Cheryl Lench nee Phillippo

Cheryl Lench nee Phillippo — Sun, 13 Dec 2015 16:46:30 +0000

I attended Central Foundation School 1957-62 and have such wonderful memories of my time there. I have only just found this site I would have so loved to have been at the reunion and the service at St Botolphs, who do I contact to find the date of the next reunion.

By: Penny Hooker (nee Long)

Penny Hooker (nee Long) — Mon, 17 Aug 2015 19:19:03 +0000

I forgot to mention that I attended Central Foundation from September 1962 – 1967.
I also swam for the School and was Eastlondon Schools Swimming Champion in Breast Stroke for the first 4 years. I unfortunately lost by a touch in my last year.
Penny Hooker (nee Long)

By: Marilyn Wigodsky nee Cole

Marilyn Wigodsky nee Cole — Sun, 08 Feb 2015 08:54:53 +0000

Hi All
I remember when , in 1964, three of us girls truanted to go to Heatrow to see The Beatles return from New York. Somehow Mrs Dunford found out and we were in trouble. Does anyone else remember ?
Marilyn

By: Barbara Breeds nee Howe

Barbara Breeds nee Howe — Sun, 25 Jan 2015 19:17:33 +0000

Hoq I enjoyed being taken back in time. I was a pupil at Spital Square from 1962 to 1966, have never thought about looking it up beofre, but would have loved to be at the reunion

By: Rosemary Hoffman

Rosemary Hoffman — Sun, 05 Oct 2014 08:04:46 +0000

jusy got round to reading this-Miss Jenkins was certainly rememebred-she was actaully retired when she came to the sshool and was really old fashioned !I left in 1963 so long before the move.

By: Sherry bryan

Sherry bryan — Fri, 19 Sep 2014 14:13:58 +0000

Just found this article and was immediately transported back to the mid sixties. In fact, Grace Crack was in my class and the cause of her expulsion was shrouded in mystery…until now! Thanks for solving a near 50 year old question.

By: Kate Hodgkin

Kate Hodgkin — Tue, 27 May 2014 19:04:15 +0000

Fascinating stuff – though most of this suggests how much the school was already changing by the time I went there in 1973! Latin had gone (to my sorrow), and the tunic was an odd 1960s style zip front. I lived round the corner in Elder St but most of the girls came from much further away, because nobody lived in Spitalfields in the early 70s. The admirable Mrs Dunford was there, but the main teachers I remember were the splendid lefties – Jane Porter later Shallice, and a guitar-playing Trotskyist sociology teacher whose name to my shame currently escapes me – among many other good people. The music was memorable. We did Oliver, The Mikado, and – wildly – Carmen, inspired by an eccentric and ambitious music teacher whose name I’ve also forgotten! Some day I’ll dig out my old reports and remember them all again.

And of course I was there for the move and the merger – it must have been 1976? So I’m puzzled by the Last Picture dated 1979. I now teach at the University of East London (not so far away!) and the occasional girl from CFS drifts through, but I’ve never got round to renewing contact with the school, though I’d like to. Hello to my old contemporaries … those memories are for another time perhaps!