Parkfield Cedars Grammar school
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Has anyone any pictures or memories of Parkfield Cedars Grammar school? My wife attended there from 1949-1953. There seems to be very little information on the Bygone Derbyshire site regarding this school - it would be very nice to hear from anyone who attended the school at the time my wife was there. The school was a very prominent building in the area, but I assume the building has now been demolished after all this time.
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Anne said ...
I was also a pupil at Parkfield Cedars from 1949-1954 and have many memories of that time, not all of them happy, but then whose schooldays were?
I can clearly recall many of the staff, not least the headmistress, the formidable Miss Stead, who ruled with a firm hand and, to an 11-year-old was pretty scary.
I recall being shown around by one of the 'big' girls, a sixth former called Paddy Green. She went on to become an actress and, as Patricia Green, is a long-standing cast member in 'The Archers'.
I have fond memories of the music mistress, Miss Smith, a rather eccentric lady to my young eyes. It was she who somehow managed to get Dame Myra Hess to play at a concert for the school in the Central Hall. Wonderful! She played Schumann and Bach and we were instructed beforehand by Miss Smith when and when not to applaud.
I am grateful to Miss Smith who opened my ears to good music. I was not an academic child and was often in trouble, but something must have rubbed off as I find myself literate and fairly numerate, with a love of good grammar and correct spelling, a fascination with history and History and Art and an appreciation of glorious music.
There was a small framed notice in the corridor which ran around the Assembly Hall - it read 'life is not so short that there is not enough time for courtesy'. I've never forgotten it. I could go on for hours but won't. Hope this has triggered a few memories. I wonder if I knew your wife - my name is Anne, but there were five Annes in my form alone!
--Anne 19:09, 2 November 2008 (UTC)