Grove Road or Lon Goch the old name for the road, (the name was changed in my childhood),

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called Lon Goch or Red Lane because of the red sandstone which was there. There are more houses
there now, a small estate has sprung up and the school I attended at the top of the hill is now a
magistrate Court, a new school has been built on the Rhyl Road bearing the old name "Frongoch
Council School". I started school at five years of age attired in a little dress and white lace pinafore
also button boots which were fastened with a button hook. In winter we wore gaiters to keep our legs
warm and a muff to keep our hands warm. The infants class had a rocking horse, swing and dolls
house. At seven years of age we went to the big school which was attached to the infants, the school
bell was rung every morning and dinner time to bring the children to school, it was in the belfry
outside. There were no school dinners as children went home for their dinner, except country children
who ate sandwiches in the schoolroom as they lived out of town. Every Xmas Mr Harry Hyman a local
greengrocer would give free oranges and apples to the children and how we looked forward to that. On
Armistice Day November the 11th, we children would be marched from school to the town square
where the war memorial stood to remember the war dead of 1914-1918, lead by a child carrying a
wreath to place on the memorial, this would be a child who had lost a father or near relation on active
service. I remember it being bitterly cold and some of us near to tears, in the end it was stopped and
only adults attended. Sometimes we school children would be taken to the cinema to see an
educational film, two films I remember were Uncle Toms Cabin and David Livingstone. If the weather
was bad in the winter the country children went home early, it was not until my young brothers
started school that hot drinks were supplied such as "Horlicks", they were charged 1 penny but still
no school dinners.