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Following on from an earlier request I made here a year or two back for any pictures of Wright Street School I just found this one. Taken in the mid 1980s I think.

Thanks Tricia - thats something I never knew.

You've got me on that one Oaker - can't recollect the comic shop at all - obviously not somewhere I visited. I was never into the "boys" type of comics, (with the exception of Roy Of The Rovers). I always went for the funnies, Beezer, Topper, Beano etc which my Grandma bought for us every week.

Ha! Eskimo Pies were little fluted pastry cases filled with ice cream with a chocolate lid. They used to sell them at the Essoldo and you could buy them at Seghinis ice cream shops (I think here were two shops). I remember  fruit in the ice lollies, round fat tub shaped with two sticks for extra support, orange or strawberry - although we used to get them from Bethams on Broadway Circle. Plessey Road wasn't on my way to school. There was also a bakery on Broadway Circle that used to sell penny loaves from their back door behind the shop that we'd eat hot on the way to school. The taste was fantastic and the smell of teh new bread- oh God it was gorgeous!

The song I remember best from Crofton is Lillibullero - we had no idea what it meant and certainly no notion of any political association. As far as I can recall no-one ever gave any background or explanation. But the tune was rousing and we'd sing out at the tops of our voices.
As for the hymns, I always associate "Glad That I Live Am I" with Crofton Juniors. It always made me feel good, the line about blue sky just somehow uplifting. And most oddly, whever I hear it I think of dinosoars. I recall singing it in assembly then going straight into Mrs Hayton and history lessons. Those lessons began with being shown how dinosoars roamed the earth under blue skies millions of years ago. She would show us fossils and pictures of tropical swamps with Brontosoaruses and Tricerotops, and I must have been carrying the tune in my head. It still works, I can't hear the tune without thinking of dinosoars and whenever dinosoars are mentioned, I hum the tune. Doing it right now!