Holy Family Metalwork Class 1958
Picture taken by Mr Jones the Metalwork master
By Brian Keegan
Metalwork Class
Brian Keegan
I also went to the Holy Family Secondary Mod from 1957 to 1959.
In my first year there was no metalwork so about 6 boys volunteered to go into the Domestic Science class with Mrs O 'Sullivan. but we were not allowed to do cooking but made basketry instead. I still have a tray that I made under her tuition although I had to redo the canework recently, and I could not work out how we had finished it off so neatly all those years ago. The picture is of out metalwork class in my second year, I am in the middle wielding a mallet , we all made a fish slice which included using a lot of techniques including having to braze a brass ferrule and turning a handle using mahogany as a source material.
I won a 1d off Mr Holden, when making a table lamp I had to drill a holes down the middle of the upright , drilling from each end and he bet me I would not meet in the middle, but did and he paid up.
I left in 1959 and went to the Richard Challoner at Malden Manor together with quite a few class mates.
Brian Keegan