Janet Anderton wrote this item:
The School Hall at the time of opening in 1958
Having been in place since at least the opening of the new school, the brick-red patterned hall curtains were in a sorry state of repair and so, during the 1980's it was decided to replace them. An innovative fund-raising scheme was set in place by the Parent Teachers Association, whereby anyone who contributed money towards the replacement of the curtains would have their name inscribed on a plaque which would be hung on the wall in the entrance hall. Participants, eager to get their name inscribed for posterity, soon raised the money and within a few months, the new curtains were proudly hung around the sides of the hall and across the stage.
A very short time passed
and the annual School Fayre took place on a Saturday afternoon.
When we all trooped into school on the following Monday, we could see
something didn't look quite right, but we couldn't make out what was
different. Suddenly someone realised that the hall and stage were
totally bereft of curtains and it was believed that someone had hidden
themselves away after the Fayre and stolen them!
With just enough money remaining, it was left to a member of the PTA to
approach the elderly retired lady who had spent days and days cutting up
and sewing the material into curtains, to see if she would make some
more. She had already said that she never wanted to sew up any
more curtains in her life, so you can imagine her horror when she was
asked to do the job all over again.
There was no truth in the rumour which swept through the school
following the theft of the curtains that each house at Church Brampton
had sets of identical curtains hung at their windows!! [The
then headmaster lived there]