Douglas W. Yarrow

In 1933 I attended the Goodwood Boys Central School situated on the corner of Lily Street and Hardy Street, Goodwood, in Class VIII. There were only three years: Class VIII, Class IX, Class X. I only attended Class VIII for times then were hard, being the end of ‘the Great Depression.’ I was 14 years old during that year 1933.

The woodwork and sheetmetal classrooms were in Surrey Street and Essex Street. According to my memory the subjects consisted of English – literature, composition, spelling; mathematics – arithmetic, mensuration, algebra; geography and current events, history and civics, science, free drawing and instrumental drawing; sheetmetal work – drawing, practice, theory; woodwork – drawing, practice, theory.

I still have my student’s report, dictation book, geography notebook, science laboratory notebook, woodwork and sheetmetal shop notes and also a number of drawing sheets, various.

The Goodwood Girls Central School was situated on Goodwood Road opposite Lily Street, Goodwood. I don’t know what subjects they had. I presume the same as the boys, except for the practical subjects. I know they had cooking, for the boys made a conical mould out of the sheetmetal (tinplate) for them to make cream horns.

For payment they sent us some cream horns, cooked after they had made them, using the moulds we had made.

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