Belmont School

Nancy went to Belmont Primary School, as did her brother and sisters and her 6 children after her. She doesn't remember her first day at school but she does remember being entrusted with taking one of the neighbour's children to school on their first day and introducing them to the principal. Her best friend was Winnie Alnutt, and they are always together in the school photos. They used to walk home together and stand at the top of Clifton Rd talking, before Nancy went home down Clifton Rd, parting with the farewell " Nightie night", Jamajama".
She enjoyed playing basketball and was a good runner, often winning races at the school sports days, egged on by shouts of "come on Fatty" or "Come on ginger!"
There was a tram, which ran down to Devonport to meet the ferry, which the girls could catch to school but it was quite possible to walk it in about 20 minutes. Nancy remembered choosing to walk and spending the tram fare on sweets but feeling very guilty about it. Where it is all housing now was market gardens in the 1920s so it was quite a different walk from today with nose to tail traffic most of the time.