Brigg Blog readers who are the wrong side of 55 may recall Glebe Road Primary School headmaster Reg Stocks holding his gardening classes for pupils in the 1960s, the garden being near the swimming pool on the Grammar School Road side of the site. The end result was tasty produce like rhubarb and kidney beans being wrapped in newspaper and taken home to mothers across town, in return for a few coppers. Such offerings provided a welcome addition to the diet served up in many council houses.
Over at Brigg Grammar School, the headmaster at that time, H. B. Williams, tended his own garden. Did some of his produce help to feed hungry residents of the boarding house, which adjoined the headmaster's residence?
....it's like the school-boy who went between the rows of onions and peas...while the young girl went behind the raspberry bushes for leeks !!
ReplyDeleteThe problem at Glebe Road Nigel was that small round new potatoes were just the right weight and size for disrupting the swimming lessons with a well aimed throw . It was safer to learn to swim under water thus avoiding the potatoe missiles.
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