Comments on: A Grange School Story (c. 1920)

By: Ric Starr

Ric Starr — Sun, 14 Sep 2025 06:39:43 +0000

Great memories of great teachers. Bob Waters, Malcolm Clode. I was monitor for everything. Chop the wood, fixed the clogged drains, repair the taps, mix the ink, sort the milk into classroom crates.
I learnt so much of civic responsibility here from kind and loving teachers.
Didn’t show much talent for sport. While foraging around in Sturts cottage garden I found a lot of cutlery. I don’t recall what happened to it but I regarded it as ” buried treasure” at the time. I was there from 1955 – 56. My younger sister, Julie, had Miss Paech, who travelled from Hahndorf, as her teacher. Robert, 5 years younger started here in the infant school. Many happy days and lots of mischief but no harm done.

By: Rosemary West (neeSteeles)

Rosemary West (neeSteeles) — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 10:07:45 +0000

My father , Vic Steeles, grew up at 7 High St and attended Grange PS in the 1920s too. He told us stories about swimming in that creek, but never mentioned that story. I wonder if he was one of those boys. If he was, we’d have loved to have known, though he probably would never have told us. Unfortunately, it is too late to ask him now.
I have Vic’s old photo album with photos of John and Frank Willoughby but not George. I wonder if George is a relative.

By: Jillian Smith

Jillian Smith — Fri, 10 Nov 2023 02:06:23 +0000

We definitely snuck off and the black mud from the creek stuck to our shins .
A dead giveaway from where we’d been !