NOSTALGIA: School's '˜gym' in a loft and youngsters learn the Twist
About three times a week, 20 children changed into their yellow PT vests and shorts and left their classroom for the loft several hundred yards away.
It included ropes slung between some of the beams.
Other stories from the same week included:
Staff at the East Midlands Electricity Board’s offices, in Market Place, Boston, were trialling emergency fire escape equipment.
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Hide AdUsing a webbing sling, they were lowered from an upstairs window to the ground at four feet per second.
“Over a dozen people used the apparatus,” a spokesman said. “In fact, we couldn’t stop the girls once they started!”
St Nicholas’ Youth Club, in Boston, held a session dedicated to the learning the Twist, the dance craze of the time.
The Standard reported on confusion between Hessle Drive and Hessle Avenue, two adjoining streets in Boston.
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Hide AdResidents said, for decades, the similar names had led to mis-directed mail.
Contributors noted originally there had been plans for a Hessle Grove off Hessle Drive, which may have complicated matters further, they said.