Changing room antics
The far changing room at Cowley boys school, St.Helens, 1976 or 1977.
Not the changing room used for filming the final changing room scene in the film “Chariots of fire” at the other end of the building a few years later. Timer exposure Lubitel II camera on a tripod.
Morning assembly ends
The headmaster leaves the stage after morning assembly at Cowley Boys School in St.Helens in the late 1970s.
Waiting for the bus
Early morning routine, taking a bus into St.Helens town centre from a bus stop in Haydock. Late 1970s.
Mum would have been on her way into work as a cleaner at Blundells on the corner of Chapel Street and my sister Susan would have been on her way to Central Modern school on North Road. I would have a second journey from town to Cowley boys school, sometimes also by bus but most of the time by walking.
Part of the daily drudge to wake up early and walk three quarters of a mile to the bus stop, nice on sunny days not so much on a grey rainy day.
1975 Street scene
The St.Helens I remember from my youth. I was thirteen and a half when I took this (I have a very clear memory of taking this image).
Unofficial school year photograph.
Some of my fellow 5th form pupils. Approx 1977.
Cowley Boys School. St.Helens
Industrial herritage
Some of the older industrial buildings for Pilkingtons Glass Works were still standing in the late 1970s.
St.Helens.
its raining again
A miserable wet 1970 winters day in a northern town. The Victorians made the Industry but they also provided the park.