Newlands Primary School

Newlands Primary School
The generous LORD NEWLANDS donated this fine building in1896. He instructed the stonemasons to carve 'NEWLANDS PUBLIC SCHOOL' into the sandstone. Welcome all visitors! Click on the link "COMMENTS" below each Post to read what others have to say. And leave a Comment of your own too while you're here!

Saturday, July 22, 2006

Ernie Lauchlan


Ernie is has toured the world with many famous acts. With Black Tie Boogie, he gives the horn section a kick that will leave you jumpin' and jivin' all over the dance floor!
Ernie has been performing with Black Tie Boogie for nearly 3 years!

Is this the start of the Newlands Swing Band, do we have any others out there. I play the clarinet (badly).
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Stewart Merrilees Progress Report Card


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Hey Stew: It might be said that the most Remarkable thing about this REPORT CARD is how long your parents kept it after it's date of issue! 52 years is amazing, especially since this wee Newlands Report Card travelled all the way around the world to Australia in your family's luggage, and survived very nicely for another half a century in the Land Down Under.

Your parents deserve a prize for this report card - and you can tell them we said so!

Friday, July 21, 2006

Jose Fleming with husband Brenton

Jose with husband Brenton Pettigrove in Perth,WA

What a lovely couple.

Jose (Fleming) Pettigrove - Perth, Western Australia

Here's the lovely Jose (Josie) Fleming, formerly of Palace Street, shown in this photo with her mum.

The Fleming Family decided to leave Palace Street in 1965 and so at age 15, Jose emigrated to Australia and a new life.

Jose and her husband Brenton currently live in PERTH, Western Australia.

Contact Jose via scotbandit@uniserve.com

Thursday, July 20, 2006

Margaret (Shepherd) Berry

DID YOU KNOW?

The lovely Margaret Shepherd was escorted to our Eleven Plus Dance by James Dick, the 1960/61 Dux Medalist at Newlands. They were the Celebrity Couple that evening.

Margaret eventually met and married a handsome Geordie, John Berry, and they were blessed with a daughter, Annette, and a son, Gavin.

The Soccer Fans among us may have seen Gavin Berry's name in the Sunday Mail - he's a Reporter for Rangers.

Wednesday, July 19, 2006

June-Elizabeth MacWilliam - Newlands 1954 Infants Class


This Grannie was known in her schooldays as "June MacWilliam," to anyone who can remember me.

A switch to my middle name of Elizabeth (Liz) plus the acquisition of a married name along the way, have resulted in a totally different name than I used back in August 1954 when I marched into the Girl's Entrance at Newlands for the first time with my classmates.

I can remember as a child of 3 or 4, sometimes walking past Newlands at Playtime with my mother. She would stop for a minute or two and say Hello to one or two older girls from our close at 18 Edmiston Street.

I stared through those railings at Playtime where a really big party appeared to be going on. As the only child of my parents for their first ten years, I had no siblings to share games with at home, so I longed to start school - simply for the social aspects of course!

Another treat for me was having my wee leather satchel strapped to my back like the bigger kids. At age five, I had finally arrived.

I soon was glad to discover that I had a willing accomplice in my milk scam. Miss Bone insisted on every child collecting and consuming his or her own milk, but I couldn't drink warm milk, so the noble young GARY NOLAN came to my rescue by gurgling down his own bottle, then quietly & calmly disposing of mine, using a fair degree of skill in deception for a five year-old, for he had to avoid detection by the sharp-eyed old witch, our Headmistress. I loathed that warm white sickening stuff that everyone else was drinking like nectar.

When shortly after lunchtime, the ferocious Miss Bone dismissed our class, I felt very let down. I longed to stay the whole day in this new and exciting world of Newlands School and attend the big parties in the Playground.

A few months later I got my wish as the Infants Class day was extended to 3:00pm, an hour before the regular dismissal. This simple strategy avoided bullying by smart-alec older kids during our journey home. I think we may have been dismissed an hour earlier for the whole of our first Term, but I'm not really sure.

How about you? Can you remember anything else from our beginnings at Newlands?

...........Thanx to Stew for his magic with all of the photos in this blogsite......

Tuesday, July 18, 2006

RICHARD KELSO - circa 1956/57

This fine looking lad, one our Lost Bairns, has been identified as Richard Kelso and hopefully he will discover he is in this gallery and respond by telling us where he has been this past 40 years.
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Class Photo 1956-57 Top Row 4


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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Class Photo 1956-57 Top Row Number 3


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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GORDON LENNOX - circa 1956/57

This turn out to be Gordon Lennox and we look forward to hearing your story Gordon...
Gordie....if you don't give us some news, we might have to invent a story for you. (Just Kidding.) It will likely turn out that you live down the road from Stew Merrilees in NANANGO........one thing about the internet:
We can Run, but we can't Hide !
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Class Photo 1956-57 3rd Row number 8


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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DONALD SHARP c. 1956-57


Thanks to his pal BOBBY IRVINE, Donald Sharp has been identified as the wee boy in our class photo. Donald if you see this why don't you send us a wee email and let us know whereabouts in the world you are now. Your old pal Bobby Irvine is living in Ontario Canada, only an hour away from George Higgins who also lives in Ontario. I wonder how many other Newlands survivors have settled down in Ontario. There seem to be a large population of Scots there.
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Class Photo 1956-57 3rd Row number 4


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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Class Photo 1956-57 3rd Row number 3

This may be JOHN WALKER - Can anyone Confirm please?


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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Class Photo 1956-57 2nd Row number 4


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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HELEN DUFFY - from Newlands Class Photo 1956-1957 Row 2, number 2


Lost bairn No Longer!
Helen's son Alan contacted us to confirm this is indeed his mum, Helen Duffy. A friend had seen this entry and contacted Alan about it. We don't have contact info for Helen yet, but her son Alan has kindly offered to Forward a message to her from us.
A Big Thanks to Alan and to the Thoughtful Friend who first saw Helen's photo here and got the ball rolling to solve this wee mystery once and for all!

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scotbandit@uniserve.com Stewmeggs@gmail.com.au Brian.Charlton@talktalk,net

Class Photo 1956-57 2nd Row number 1


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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Class Photo 1956-57 - Front Row number 8


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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JANE WHITE c.1956-57


This wee lassie has been identified as JANE WHITE. Jane, if you run across this, please leave a Comment and tell us whereabouts you are now since this class photo was taken almost 50 years ago! That's bloomin hard to believe we could all be that old already.
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Class Photo 1956-57 - Front Row number 2


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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Class Photo 1956-57 - Front Row number 1


Lost bairn. Does anybody recognise. Please post details.
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David Parkinson

David if you are around and see this please feel free to join in and supply a recent photo. If you have any problems drop me an email at
stew.meggs@gmail.com
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Spelling

Apologies to anyone whose name may have been mis-spelled. Do please leave your message with YOUR NAME spelled correctly and it will be corrected by our team of tiny mice who work all night to get your details right. These mice, for many years, made their HQs underneath NEWLANDS PRIMARY, but now they have hopped over to the Newlands Blog and will keep things running, even while we are spending time in the land of nod. We may be from all different time zones, but we all need to get some beauty sleep sometime, eh?

STEWART MERRILEES (stewmeggs) NEWLANDS 1956/57

Did you ever think we'd find out what happened to this wee boy 48 years ago? Even from this early photo, you can see Stewart has a look of Command about him. Perfectly suited to serving forty years with the Australian Navy?

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Prior to the family move to distant Australia, Stew joined the CUBS with Gary Nolan from Palace Street. He lived in the same close as Grace McFarlane and if anyone knows Grace, please tell her we'd love to hear from her.

Contact Stewart at stew.meggs@gmail.com

Brian Barbour


Brian if you are around and see this please feel free to join in and supply a recent photo. If you have any problems drop me an email at
stew.meggs@gmail.com
I am on your immediate left.
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Georgina Docherty

Georgina if you are around and see this please feel free to join in and supply a recent photo. If you have any problems drop me an email at
stew.meggs@gmail.com
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Linda White

Linda if you are around and see this please feel free to join in and supply a recent photo. If you have any problems drop me an email at
stew.meggs@gmail.com
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MARGARET BAIN - Newlands 1956/57

Margaret Bain at Newlands School, 1956/57 Margaret if you are around and see this please feel free to join in and supply a recent photo. If you have any problems drop me an email at
stew.meggs@gmail.com
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Edwina Struthers

Edwina if you are around and see this please feel free to join in and supply a recent photo. If you have any problems drop me an email at
stew.meggs@gmail.com
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