Photos of Birches Green Primary School in the 90s
Here are photos I have of my old primary school, Birches Green. I took most of them on the very last day of school, when we were allowed to bring in cameras.
Here's the class of retards I was in:
The class was called 6D – that's 6 for Year 6 and D for Dweebs.
Actually, on second thoughts, I think the D might have stood for 'Derby', our teacher.
The playground:
A corridor. Because that's the kind of important thing you need to take photos of: the corridors.
Here's the headteacher, Mr Gospel, signing t-shirts as if he was a celebrity instead of just a primary school headteacher. He must have loved this day and all the attention he was getting.
The hall:
I think this is my brother on the stage holding up a trophy as if he's won gold at the Olympics. You had to bring that trophy, back by the way. You couldn't keep it.
Mr Benton. Some of the girls had a crush on him which was not very appropriate. He's not going to go out with a 10-year-old girl, is he? Well, I hope not.
I think the only reason girls found him attractive was his moustache. Well, it definitely wasn't for that tie.
The house teddies. My house was Stardust. Stardust was the worst house. We were useless and were always in last place in everything. Sports day, quizzes, competitions: no matter what it was, we were always last. Probably me being in Stardust didn't help.
Andrew Morgan. I lived next door to him.
Jason Body:
My sister, Lisa Pietrzak:
Jordan. I used to play Dungeons and Dragon with her dad at Wednesday club. It was as fun as it sounds, which is not very.
Ruth Walcot:
Sibbhoen, a girl I had a crush on:
It's probably just as well that we didn't get together because her name is very hard to spell.
Tom Farmer, the smallest boy in the year. I should have called him 'Tom Thumb' but I didn't because I've only just thought of that joke now. That's a terrible shame because I would have liked to have teased him mercilessly with that.
In 1998, when I was ten, I went to a birthday party at Tom Farmer's house. He had this huge house with a massive garden. There was a bouncy castle and everything. I remember Tom crying. The reason he was crying was that his mom had invited the class loser, Scott Peters, to the party. "I don't want Scott here at my party!" Tom sobbed. It was all a bit awkward. Well, the good thing is Scott stayed and we all had cake and a goody bag, so all's well that ends well.
Anyway, here's another photo. It features Rosie (wearing an Adidas top and making a rude hand gesture), James Edwards, Stacey (pulling a face) and Clark Cluely (he used to jab me with a pencil when I was trying to do schoolwork and I have absolutely nothing good to say about him.)
Can't remember this teacher's name. If you remember, let me know in the comments below. Or not, I don't really care either way, to be honest.
Me, looking as cool as James Bond (if James Bond was a 10-year-old dweeb, that is):
I don't know this kid's name but I always liked him because he had hair like mine and he looked a bit like me as well. Maybe we were related. My dad always did seem to be the type to have a secret family somewhere.
I didn't know this girl but she wanted me to take a photo of her so I said "Okay, fuck it", took the photo and here we are. By this point, I was like a paparazzi photographer on Oscar night – I was taking photos of absolutely everyone. It's a shame as I could have used the film to take a photo of something more interesting, like a patch of concrete on the floor.
Other photos:
Rebecca Mattews, Ruth Walcott and Amy Lyth. Amy was a charming young lady as you can see from the fact she's giving me the finger.
My sister's class (which I don't really care about to be honest because it wasn't my class):
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2022-06-13 Samantha K
Wow these bring back memories, my sister must have been in your class then; Lyndsey
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2022-05-24 Ak
The new shitty headteacher got rif of wildfore and that even merits runing it all
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2022-05-24 Ak
Il try get one the school has changed so much but the ict room is the same
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2022-03-23 Paul Marsh
Do you have any pictures of the care takers house, as my gran and grandad were the school caretakers back in 1962-1963, and my Uncle was born in that house....good pictures by the way.
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2021-10-12 Ak
Im in the school it has changed so much like but the corridors still look the same
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2021-06-10
Thunderbolt were shitter I should know I was in it! Did they still have that crappy perspex trophy which I think was supposed to be a question mark? I left in 1991 so maybe they upgraded by this time.
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2021-05-06
The girl you dont know is Katrina turner.
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2021-02-13 Kayleigh Natasha
Trip down memory lane. I was in the same year as Lisa and Andrew
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2021-02-08 Sophia Rehman
Some amazing photos!! I left birches green 2002. That ginger teacher I think is miss ledwith. I'm sure she had a thing with mr Benton. I was in 6D too with ms Darby. We used to believe she had a gun
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2021-02-11 Paul Chris Jones
I left in 1998 but we had exactly the same rumour about Ms Darby.
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2020-11-22 Luke
Thats gave me chills man i remember some of them kids mr benton was my teacher in year 3 then he left after that and the black girl near the top i was only telling my wife about her the other day she was literally the tallest kid in the school and it freaked me out
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2020-12-03 Paul Chris Jones
I think you're talking about Lydia Gregory. I still keep in touch with her. She says she's 6 foot 2 now, so she would still dwarf most people. I once sold her all my entire collection of Beano comics for a pound because I didn't want them anymore. Last I heard, she still has them all in her attic.
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