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stribe · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 12:11 pm Post subject: Newport Pictures

Did anyone besides Nora, doreen and me go to Newport pictures and snog with fellas up the back seats, Nora and I had a laugh about it the other day, I dont think we ever saw the picture
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Susan Gillet · Posted: Wed Feb 03, 2010 8:20 pm Post subject:

I often went to the Newport flicks, but to watch the film, not to snog. lol I was such an innocent back then.
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eileen · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:24 pm Post subject:

Pat are you sure it was Doreen and Nora? surely my sisters were not like that. I see them both as angels.
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stormfour · Posted: Thu Feb 04, 2010 9:31 pm Post subject:

WOW Eileen,I see my sister as an angel too,but I always believed in "seeing things" I know for a fact that Linds used to go to Newport Pictures,dont know what she did there as I never went with her,Now I was a perfect little angel,still am actually ( not) but I am a rare breed!!
AND Pat,you didnt do too bad saying as you fancied all the lads and couldnt get any of them ??
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stribe · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 1:35 am Post subject:

Well I can tell you all that neither Nora or Doreen were angels back then, we did get up to some mischief, nothing illegal but things you wouldnt want to tell your mum. I did very well considering, I think I must have been a late bloomer, remember in Altona when everyone started smoking and I didnt realize it was supposed to make you look cool. I still remember Anne Shaw and I at the Altona Park and she had a nice frock on very short and I was up a tree, she had to tell me to get down as there were some nice lads coming, as I said very late bloomer
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Susan Gillet · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 11:01 am Post subject:

I can attest to Nora being a bit of a rebel. My one and only day of wagging from Williamstown Girls school was with Nora. We went down to Willy pier and "investigated" a few of the boats. We didn't take anything, just sat in the cabins. Couldn't do that these days.
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eileen · Posted: Fri Feb 05, 2010 2:54 pm Post subject:

Just a minute, i too was there that day when we went on the boats, i remember being hungry and wanting some dinner, I'm sure i took a banana. And how old would i have been? about 7 yrs i never knew it was our Nora took me there. yes she was a rebel. Still think Doreen's a angel.
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Susan Gillet · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 3:01 am Post subject:

Wonder if it was a different day to the day I went with Nora as I can't remember you being with us. I'm pretty sure that wasn't the only time that Nora played truant. Maybe she took different people each time, hehe. I know I felt awfully guilty about wagging, and didn't do it again. lol
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eileen · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 6:06 pm Post subject:

Maybe it was another day, can't remember who i was with but there was quite a few of us. I sometimes wonder what would have happened if somebody had come along and caught us.
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Susan Gillet · Posted: Sun Feb 07, 2010 11:32 pm Post subject:

We would have got our arses kicked by the boat owners, the police AND our parents. lol
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caroline · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 12:06 pm Post subject:

I remember we did a lot of wagging from willi girls school, we would then end up at newport station, we never ever got on a train lollol just stayed at the station till home time. xx

Susan Gillet · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:01 pm Post subject:

You should have wagged with Nora then, she had MUCH better ideas than just hanging round the station, hehe.

As I said, that was my one and only time of wagging from Willy. I have to say, it wasn't my last day of wagging though as I detested Braybrook High which was the school I went to when we left the hostel.
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caroline · Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 8:09 pm Post subject:

Hey Sue, do you remember the headmistress of willi girls. Miss Bowles?oh she really did'nt like the hostel kids, but then we did'nt make her life easy either,she was awful.

Susan Gillet · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:03 pm Post subject:

Yes, I remember her very well, her and miss Richards. She didn't like the hostel kids either and made an example of me because I didn't have my PE uniform. She had very long nails and was poking me in the chest with them so I pushed her hand away. She then slapped me across the legs so I hauled off and hit her across the face. This all happened in assembly. lol
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caroline · Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 8:38 pm Post subject:

Oh yes miss richards, nearly forgot about her,I remember Marion and I sitting in her classroom talking and to get our attention she threw a duster at us, it just missed Marion lol lol , but to my horror Marion picked it up and threw it at her, hitting her, funny my mind goes blank after that lol lol lol xxx