04/08/2015 Chapter 17 LRGS 1947-1949 What else, Part II? There's so much, it's hard to know where to stop. So here are just a few more highlights – which may grow into a lot more detail; but I'll try to make it interesting. I just remember, the book that most impressed, really impressed me at … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – LRGS 1947 – 1949 What else part II? →

Started 09/07/2015 Chapter 16 LRGS 1947-1949 What else? So what else was there besides school classes and boarding? Well there was sport. In the winter, the Michaelmas and Lent terms, there was – officially - rugger, cross country running,... and that was about it. Unofficially there were endless games of soccer when and wherever the … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 16 – LGRS 1947 – 1949 What else? →

Started 3 July 2015   Tom memories Chapter 15: Starting secondary school, mainly about classes   So I've written a chapter about the first 18 months of being a boarder at LRGS. And now a chapter on the first two years of school, 1947-8 and 1948-9. What was I like in Sept 1947 when I … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 15 – Starting Secondary School (mainly about classes) →

Started 2014-09-03 Chapter 14, Starting at LRGS   Preamble So I've now written nineteen sections, grandly called chapters, it's September 1947, I'll soon be eleven and I'm about to start at Lancaster Royal Grammar School, (LRGS from now on). We could say it's the end of Part 1 and that now we're starting Part 2. … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs Chapter 14 – Starting at LRGS →

Tom Memories Chapter 13, 1947, everything changes 1947 was the year that not quite everything, but almost everything changed. We became British subjects. We changed our name from Grünwald to Greenwood. We got our first car, a 1938 Hillman Minx, registration number DWT 68, bought second hand from Cecil Snook. And my dad passed his … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 13 1947 – Everything Changes →

Chapter 12c Toys and games I'm making the sections a bit shorter because I don't want to send you lots that you've already read every time I send you a new bit. Toys more or less disappeared during the war. There was one toy shop in Darwen, Henry Walley's, on the main road, about two … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 12c – Toys and Games →

Tom memories, Chapter 12a, Darwen up till 1947, cubs (started 2 Sept 2014) And we're still in “Darwen up till 1947,” and so here's a short section on my membership of the St Cuthbert's church cub pack. I really liked cubs very much and felt very enthusiastic about the ideals, the promise, the law, as … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 12b – The Cubs →

Tom memories, Chapter 12a, Darwen up till 1947, reading, holidays (started 2 Aug 2014) So we're still stuck in “Darwen up till 1947”. I'll start with books and reading. So... Books and reading I was a good reader and, I think, an early reader. When I was in Class 1 at Hollins Grove, I remember … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 12a Darwen up until 1947 – Reading & Holidays →

19/01/2014 Tom Memoirs Chapter 12, Darwen up till 1947, Pets, Toys, Reading, Cubs, Blackburn International Club, swimming lessons, the end of the war and my dad's job. 1/ Pets This is a repeat of what I told Johnny when we visited him on 27-29 Dec. I can remember asking for a pet as far back … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs – Chapter 12 Darwen up until 1947 – pets, toys, reading, swimming, the end of the war →

Tom Memoirs Chapter 11, Darwen up till 1947, continuation of continued … I do remember the one and only good hiding I got from my mother very well. It must have been around 1944, so I'd have been 7 (I was eight in the September, and it was in the summer). At that time there … Continue reading Tom Greenwood Memoirs Chapter 11 – Darwen up to 1947 continuation of continued →