Lessons missed as pupils fled into air-raid shelters Wartime memories of life at Scunthorpe Grammar School have been recalled by former pupil Thora Fisher of Roxby.

From: Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph | Date: October 1, 2007 | Copyright information

Wartime memories of life at Scunthorpe Grammar School have been recalled by former pupil Thora Fisher of Roxby.

She was on a photo with other former pupils at a recent reunion in our Nostalgia column last week.

The Grammar School was in Doncaster Road in the buildings which now house High Ridge.

The pupils wore green uniforms, and hence it became known colloquially as the 'Green School', as opposed to the Scunthorpe Modern School in Cole Street which had a brown uniform an...

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