© Joe Douglas. 2016

Fairfield School

I started at Fairfield in 1945 when it was a segregated school and mixed infants. My first teacher was Mrs. Stevenson. When I was 8 or 9 the school was changed to co-ed and my class was in what used to be the girls school. I took the 11 plus in Miss Thompson’s class on the top floor of what used to be the Boy’s chool. I am sure it was her bony finger prodding me regularly that got me through and to the Grammar School.

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It was in her class I had my first taste of English Country Dancing. They tried unsuccessfully to teach a group of us to dance the ‘Sir Roger De Coverley’. The scars can’t have been too deep as 20 years later I took up Country Dancing and was a Barn Dance caller for over 20 years.

These pictures are of the stone buildings which are probably some of the most impressive building in the town’