School disappointment

Published 23 Jun 2010 12:30

I WAS led to believe, from a previous issue of your newspaper, that an opportunity for old pupils and members of the community to visit Goldenhill Primary, a school holding myriad happy memories for many members of the local community would be made available prior to its demolition and the opening of the new school this summer.

I was therefore, very disappointed to find out that not only had this event been held, with little publicity within the community it serves, but also that it had amounted to an afternoon, when most former pupils would have been at work and unable to visit during this limited time.

I am sure I speak for many when I express my disappointment at being denied an opportunity to revisit a school which played such a major part in our early lives.

It seems a real shame that a building which holds so many heartfelt memories should be allowed to just disappear without an opportunity for those with emotional attachments being given the chance to join in the celabrations of its long life and many successes.

I, in particular have a close affinity to the school, as my grandfather participated in the location and building processes as a local councillor of the time. I attended the school in the 1960s and my younger brother died suddenly during his time as a pupil of the school in 1970.

My own children also attended the school in the 1990s and I, myself was fortunate to return for a short time in the new millennium in a peripatetic teaching capacity.

I am sure you can appreciate how important this school has been to my family, and many others over its lifetime, and will be able to empathise with us as we watch its demise from the sidelines with great sadness and gratitude for the memories which fortunately cannot be so easily erased.

Jean Burrows, former Goldenhill pupil

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