tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post8565545671123075186..comments2024-03-28T18:40:59.101+00:00Comments on CRIVENS! COMICS & STUFF!: BELMONT ON BOXING DAY...Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger15125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-66866775880472147802015-01-10T19:37:13.965+00:002015-01-10T19:37:13.965+00:00Glad you enjoyed it AD - as I enjoyed your blog, t...Glad you enjoyed it AD - as I enjoyed your blog, to which I'll be returning to read some more. Love that photo of the old barn - it just has so much history to it.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-71449710391933452202015-01-10T19:25:53.291+00:002015-01-10T19:25:53.291+00:00A beautiful essay. We don't live in the past,...A beautiful essay. We don't live in the past, but memories shape our present. The one room school I attended until I was 8 years old is long gone, I can't even locate a photo of it so I empathize with your feelings. I've written some similar thoughts in my own blog http://axiesdad.blogspot.com/ but usually the melancholy is buried by the sweet memories. Axiesdadhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03273751356283986043noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-16328500912701023622012-01-31T04:14:43.408+00:002012-01-31T04:14:43.408+00:00Nay, thank you, Sir Paul, for visiting my humble b...Nay, thank you, Sir Paul, for visiting my humble blog. Feel free to drop in again at any time. I sneaked a peek at your own site and look forward to browsing through it again soon.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-56951946182240807392012-01-31T03:59:20.005+00:002012-01-31T03:59:20.005+00:00I join with all of you in the nostalgia and sweet ...I join with all of you in the nostalgia and sweet sorrow at the passing of our childhood memories. My old school is gone too, they built a new one on top of the football fields where us third formers beat the fourth formers in the school cup, for the first time ever. Even though I now live in a different country and am 40 yrs removed from those days, I can still see the faces of some of the boys from our team. In my mind they will remain innocent ten year olds forever, with, as you said Kid, Eternity in front of them. We were all going to stick together and play with Georgie Best at Man Utd. Oldham Athletic was our town team, but they were third Div. Hehehe.<br /> Kid, you have a great blog. Thanks for stirring up fond memories.<br /> Sir Paul.Sir Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07845451591926939837noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-64553761463657480612012-01-12T20:23:22.653+00:002012-01-12T20:23:22.653+00:00My house was in the top row, right next to the fla...My house was in the top row, right next to the flats. I see the Campbells still live there. It hadn't long been built when I moved in, and it was a far better place then than it is now.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-89029131393367877532012-01-12T18:40:56.990+00:002012-01-12T18:40:56.990+00:00Seems the school buildings of yesteryear have all ...Seems the school buildings of yesteryear have all but gone or been replaced in EK.<br /><br />I spent my first 7 years growing up in the flats at the top of Belmont Drive.Rob Paulhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14660817269811764349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-77602702405640241452011-12-28T23:08:58.227+00:002011-12-28T23:08:58.227+00:00Someone who knows one of the brickies who worked o...<i>Someone who knows one of the brickies who worked on the replacement for my old secondary school (high school) said that the guy told him the new buildings would be lucky to last 25 years before needing to be rebuilt.</i><br /><br />Wouldn't be surprised. Interesting how that sort of thing works in your country.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-22515372064060089912011-12-28T22:17:15.649+00:002011-12-28T22:17:15.649+00:00Chris, in my home town there's a policy at the...Chris, in my home town there's a policy at the moment of building replacement schools on adjacent land and then demolishing the old ones. The council sells the land to the builders and then leases the schools back from them, apparently saving money in the short-term, if not the long.<br /><br />In most cases the original schools are absolutely fine and don't need replaced, but it's a way for the council to raise money from the sale of the land. Why not just sell the adjacent land you may ask? It's really all to do with the layout - if they build a new school on part of the adjacent land, when the old schools is demolished it frees up a bigger area on which to build houses and flats, etc.<br /><br />Someone who knows one of the brickies who worked on the replacement for my old secondary school (high school) said that the guy told him the new buildings would be lucky to last 25 years before needing to be rebuilt.<br /><br />Scandalous. Okay, rant over.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-72758562287082757392011-12-28T22:01:03.168+00:002011-12-28T22:01:03.168+00:00Seems like a lot of schools get torn down lately t...Seems like a lot of schools get torn down lately that remain a memory for those that have been there. There's a grade school down the street from my house that had to be torn down earlier this year after it closed the year before (and all because the school district didn't want to keep trying to maintain an 'old building'). It was sad since the building could have lived to see it's 100th birthday in a few years but no, they just couldn't keep it standing for long.Chris Sobieniakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09838106041175506925noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-70823984627067659002011-12-27T13:15:47.168+00:002011-12-27T13:15:47.168+00:00Thanks. Glad you enjoy it.Thanks. Glad you enjoy it.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-37384965942564637172011-12-27T01:20:38.450+00:002011-12-27T01:20:38.450+00:00definitely the best blog of its kind I've read...definitely the best blog of its kind I've read. not just a one note site confined to comics, its a nostalgic treasure chest to warm the cockles of any heart.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-85898056077327417742011-12-27T00:28:45.978+00:002011-12-27T00:28:45.978+00:00I suppose there's a small measure of consolati...I suppose there's a small measure of consolation in the fact that the buildings weren't demolished. Not much of one 'though, eh?Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-80870696207139350232011-12-27T00:20:38.788+00:002011-12-27T00:20:38.788+00:00My first primary school ( a proper, old-fashioned,...My first primary school ( a proper, old-fashioned, red-brick village school ) was shut down and then taken over by a fencing company, who filled the old playground with fence panels.<br /><br />And my secondary school is now a pub. Shame they never had a bar when I was there...Simon B https://www.blogger.com/profile/07719757386457800087noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-33325830096441254202011-12-26T20:51:08.999+00:002011-12-26T20:51:08.999+00:00Same here. My old Secondary School was demolished ...Same here. My old Secondary School was demolished a couple of years back - houses are still being built where it used to be. My past is being wiped away.Kidhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07224781868125924337noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3740495193314269367.post-71419108593314333672011-12-26T18:31:49.096+00:002011-12-26T18:31:49.096+00:00I know how you feel. They knocked my old secondary...I know how you feel. They knocked my old secondary school down years ago and replaced it with houses. Every time I go past, it makes me feel like my school days were barely more than a half-faded dream.<br /><br />Still, at least the old playing fields are still there in between the housing.Steve Does Comicshttp://stevedoescomics.blogspot.comnoreply@blogger.com