school memory

[oxymoron]

can anyone else remember this. When I was at school ( many years ago!) I remember us all being given as a treat a packet of drinking chocolate or cocoa to bring home. It was after the war and must have been around 1946.I don`t think I dreampt it but would love to know if It jogged a memory for any of you.

[stewey]

I don't remember the chocolate, but I remember getting free milk once a day. It came in small bottles with a cardboard top, and the crates of it were just sitting out in the playground (cinder!) so it was quite warm...used to hate it.

[cazzz1975]

I used to get a mini bottle of milk with a thin blue straw at playtime, its was cold more often than not!!

drinking chocolate may have been before my time..

[carrot99]

I remember taking money to primary school in the early 60s to buy savings stamps with Prince Charles' head on (I think it was him), I've no idea why they sold them in school - after our biscuit money I reckon!

[boxtops]

Carrott, I did that too. There were two values, Prince Charles on one and Princess Anne, aged about 2, on the lower value. I think it was to instil the idea of savings in us at an early age! We has 3 collection days - Weds was school fund (charitable stuff), Thurs was savings, Fri was library fund. If you were lucky you could be monitor for one of these which meant you missed assembly because you were totting up. I still have a few of these old saving stamps (2 or 3 I think) in my ancient memories box!

[carrot99]

boxtops you've reminded me that I was a paint-pot monitor at one time, I used to wash out the jam jars we all used for paint on our easels. Can you imagine the Health and Safety people now letting a class of seven year olds each have 3 or 4 glass jars of paint? No one ever severed an artery as far as I recall!

[Booldawg]

I remember the milk being partially frozen in winter months, and the straws! Being 'milk monitor' was a highly regarded posting.

[caslass]

I went to a Catholic school. Every morning the nuns would make us empty our pockets, if we had any money to spend in the tuck shop they would take half of it from us for the "Holy souls". Happy Days. Not

[stewey]

There were still air-raid shelters in the school yard, and we were told to keep out of them..........of course we did:) The playground was covered in cinders and was surrounded by an iron railong fence that had pointed tops. As I recall, not one of us became impaled!

[oxymoron]

thanks everyone for all the answers. I remember the milk as well. Good old days eh!

[mike11111]

I remember being milk monitor. It was great because if anyone was absent the monitors got their milk as well. I once had 4 bottles in a morning and was sick. I also rmember the savings stamps. Prince Charles was worth 2s - 6d while Princess Anne was only worth 6d. Wouldn't get away with it in these PC days. This was before Princes Andrew and Edward were born.

A funny story regarding savings stamps. I remember as a young grammar school boy going to the Post Office to cash some in order to buy a fancy ball-point pen. Having done so I still had some money left over. Outside one of the large department stores in Newcastle there used to be a man playing the accordion with a collection box marked 'BLIND'. Feeling generous, without saying a word, I put 6d in his box, to which he replied with the words, "Thanks, bonny lad!". I felt a warm glow of satisfaction, and it was only when I got 100 yards further up the road that the true significance of what he has said hit me.