IT wasn’t always fun at school around the Second World War. Sometimes the cane was wafted to let the kids know that teacher was boss!

Memories came spinning back for J. Croston-Graham of Moss Bank who says: “I must have been the only one expelled from the infants school when I kicked the teacher.”

He was picking up on a picture, shown on this page previously, of the Robins Lane infants of around 1945.

“My mum was told to take me away until I was five but not then to return to Robins Lane infants!”

However, he did eventually get into the upper Robins Lane junior school. “Teacher Mrs Skepper was strict but fair, not like our own teacher, called Nanny. If someone in class did anything wrong we had to hold out our hands while she caned us all. If anyone cried, she caned us twice!”

There are happier thoughts for Eric Jones, a 68-year-old former designer and engineer, from Farndon Avenue, Sutton Manor, who forwards the picture (shown here) of the Robins Lane Juniors’ first-year of 1946.

He has glowing memories of his tuition there and the career that followed. He names all he can recall from the photo with a question mark signifying the forgotten ones.

They are: Back row:?, ?, ?, Joyce Conway, Margery Westhead, ?, ?, Janet Edwards, Anne McIntyre.

Third row up: Ray Molyneux, Mally Foster, Jim Lancaster, ?, Eric Jones, John Cook, Ray Garnet, Tom Baines, Ian Whalley, ?, Harry Grace.

Second row: ?, ?, ?, ?, Norma Punshon, ?, ?, ?, ?, ?,Olive Brookfield, ?.

Front: ?, Carl Greenall, Roy Griffiths, John Whitfield, F. Knight, John Duxbury, Fred Treacher, Ken Clare.