Journey through time - Micklands Primary School

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In the 1930's the Land Settlement Committee allocated land and houses to needy families. These came mainly from Wales and Cumberland. They were provided with three-bedroomed houses and half an acre of land. Many families kept chickens and other livestock. The expectation was that the families could be self-sufficient. Families, who moved in, during winter, received some coal. Mr Len Williams remembers the excitement of moving somewhere different, where “we'll be able to have a bath every morning". As one of the first families to move in to Woods Road, he remembers playing with his brothers and sisters on the building site. During the war he remembers an airplane making an emergency landing in the field where the school now stands; it had to be removed by the R.A.F. Before Micklands was built, school children in the area walked to Dunsden. Many parents objected to the four journeys a day escorting their children to and from school. Later a taxi was hired to take some of the children to school. This was insufficient and eventually some of the families refused to take the children to school. As a result a temporary (!) building was erected and Micklands was born.
Mr Williams remembers leaving school in April 1944 and beginning his first job at the age of fourteen with Styles of Wimbledon, helping to build Micklands School. There was a shed on site for storing cement, but when the builders arrived to start work they discovered a tramp had taken up residence. Mr Williams found him temporary accommodation in Woods Road. Both the digging of the trenches for the services, and the cement mixing for the floors, were done by hand. Working ten hour days, the work was completed in approximately seven months. Whilst working on the building, Mr Williams remembers the D-Day planes going over. The Walker twins proudly wearing the original Micklands uniform (late 1950's)
Page 4 and 5: Clive and Martin Peters wearing the
Page 6 and 7: Also at this time the school choir
Page 8 and 9: In 1977, Silver Jubilee Year, the Q

Journey through time - Micklands Primary School

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