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May Day Celebrations at Elfrida School, Bellingham, 1957
May Day Celebrations at Elfrida School, Bellingham, 1957

Paul Featherstone

"This would be Elfrida School, it used to be the May Day celebration. We also used to celebrate Empire Day, and you used to have to draw your own flag, or draw a flag of another country relevant to the Empire. But for the May Day celebration there always used to be a dance.

I don't think I've ever seen the cane, I've had the ruler three or four times, but I always say, if you got the ruler, you must have deserved it, and that is it. So I made sure, I tried not to be naughty. In them days you always said "Sir", that was something I was always brought up to do, to respect your elders."

 
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