Another photograph from St. Cuthbert’s R.C Mixed School photo album showing St. Cuthbert’s Junior Class 3, Stockton 1950. Unfortunately we don’t have any names, does anyone recognise them?
Courtesy of Tony Cooney who dropped the album off at Fairfield Library. He believes the head teacher, Mr Connors lived in the house at Jesmond Grove which he moved into last year.
The teachers who taught me at Cuthies were in ascending order Miss Cashman, Miss Adams, Miss Sheehan, Miss Dillon, Mrs Corner, Mrs Hayes and of course Mr Burns.
I can honestly say I can’t think of a bad word to say about any of them.
Good Memory Ken Davies, but we need to add Miss Dowson who taught Junior 3 , the year before Mr. Burn’s class. She was Jim McCurley’s favorite… he used to dream about her !!
I joined the school in Miss Dillon’s class, then Mrs Corner for two years, then Miss Dowson, then Billy Burns. All very good teachers although I didn’t like Mrs Corner. Perhaps the Miss Sheehan in the picture, if it is she, is wearing dark blue! She was an Irish lady who dedicated her life to her teaching.
I’m not at all sure this is Miss Sheehan.
The Miss Sheehan I remember and who taught me only ever wore very dark blue
On reflection, Jim Mc. called her a kindly old lady… I remember her as a very strict teacher who preferred the use of a ruler to bring order to the classroom , maybe I was just a ” bad boy”.
Actually I was never in her class, I came to the school later, so my memory must be second hand, or maybe going a bit fuzzy!
Mrs Corner was the one I remember as the strict one.
I have the same memories of Mrs Sheehan has been very strict. I was in her class maybe 1951/2, I was made to stand in the corner for having permed hair, something my aunty thought was a good idea. Not so Mrs Sheehan. Remember her ruler as well.
That’s definitely my brother Michael McCullough in second row, far left. I recognize a lot of the faces but can’t put names to them.
They were all 3 years older than Jim McCurley and I, so there was a disconnect. Seems to me they spent most of their time ” beating us up” !! Misspent youth.
Ray Dee 2nd from right, middle row
I remember Ray Dea from St. Mary’s College in Acklam where a number of us went, for our sins, after 11+. He was older than me, a great guy. I believe he married one of the Cresswell twins.
Ray did marry one ofthe twins. We were friends for a long time through the 50’s, his mam and dad were great people it was always open house where they lived in Stafford Street. They welcomed all his friends in at any time.
The teacher is Miss Sheehan, a kindly lady who lived to the age of about 94.