![]() ![]() “The main building was the house next to the church with two classrooms behind the church, a classroom at the back of the yard for science and the art room was on the top floor. I remember that some boys used to come all the way from Gravesend on the train. “I used to catch the 241 bus from Welling up to the police station in Sidcup and, after that, one had but a short walk round the corner to the school in Main Road. Short trousers had to be worn until the winter term in Year Two. “In those day, the purple school uniform – which was very similar to Chis & Sid’s – had to be bought from Swan and Edgar Ltd, the department store at Piccadilly Circus. Luckily, I was accepted and four or five of us went from St Stephens and we were the last intake to spend a full year at Main Road before the move to the new school. ![]() My 11+ results from St Stephens in Welling were borderline so I had to go, with my mother, to Sidcup to be interviewed by the headmaster Fr Leo McIver.
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