Anthony Bucks Memories

I then moved to the infant school where Miss Workman proceeded to change my writing hand from a natural left to right so I now do some things left handed and some right. Still that was the accepted procedure in those days.

I also remember having to show a new boy how to close a door quietly! In the junior school we lined up to march into school to the RAF March Past music.

Mr. Harding and Miss Tatham were important to me at the time. I was in the school athletic team for three years and have the photos for those years (1947, 1948, 1949) although the 1947 photo is a cutting from a 1990 Bletchley Gazette.

I remember the school camp in 1949 to Nettlestone in the Isle of Wight including an outing to Ryde and across to Portsmouth where we saw a CountyCricket Match and a hazy memory of going on HMS Victory. For some reason I had a fight with Vincent Breedon I've no idea what it was about.

I'll draw a veil over a memory of a contest at school in the boys lavatory (they weren't called toilets in those days) but it involved height and direction.

I notice there's a photo on the website of "puppeteers". I'm sure there was an official film made of this activity as I remember going to see it at a special showing at school. If there is no trace of it locally now it may be in the British Film Institute's Archives.

I moved with my family to Derbyshire in 1949 and although I have moved around the country since I always regard Bletchley as where I come from strange how those early years affect you.

Regards

Tony Buck