Personal St Helier memories
How to begin?
By William Dace
My time in St. Helier began in 1937. We moved from Brixton to Whitby Gardens. No one had cars, but everyone thought walking was a normal behaviour - unlike today. I started at Tweeddale School and remember my first teacher, a Miss Sharp. I think the first headmaster was a Mr Smallman. At the onset of war all the recreation grassed area was taken up with air raid shelters, and we spent quite a lot of lesson time in those shelters. In the age progression I moved into the upper school - where the headmaster was a Mr.C. Whiteley, who was undressed if he wasn't carrying a cane. None of the roads around the school area were completed, being mainly cobbles and chippings. I left Tweeddale in 1943.