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Middle Street School has also had a lot to celebrate over the years, including sports competitions, theatre productions, school trips, national holidays, everyday school life and play.

Here are more pictures and you can listen to some audio clips of ex-pupils remembering their time at Middle Street School.

Ex Middle Street pupil Pat Sprinthall talks about wanting to become an actress

	Ex pupil Pat Sprinthall, 2005

Current Middle Street School pupils interviewing: " If you can remember, but you probably can't because it was a long time ago, but what did you want to be when you grew up? "

Pat Sprinthall: " What did I want to be? [Laughs] ...when I was a child I wanted to be a singer or an actress, because I was always in all the plays at Middle Street- which I loved, I loved being on stage, but I mean thats rather a, erm, pipe dream, its not usual to become one. But as I got older all I wanted to do was be a mother [Laughs] ...which I am, and a grandmother, and a great grandmother [Laughs]. "

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Ex Middle Street School pupil Pat Sprinthall talks about playtime games

	Ex pupil Pat Sprinthall, 2005

Pat Sprinthall: " We played with whip and top, have you ever had a whip and top? "

Current Middle Street School pupils interviewing: " No "

Pat Sprinthall: " Well that's a little wooden top, and you wound the whip round it, and then went like that and it went spinning off. "

Current Middle Street School pupils interviewing: " oh, they probably wouldn't allow those types of toys now "

Pat Sprinthall: " No they probably wouldn't- not whips [Laughs]...and a hoop, we had a big hoop with a stick, which you pushed along, the hoop along with the stick- and alleys, which maybe you call marbles, but we used to call them alleys. "

Current Middle Street School pupils interviewing: " Did you have conkers? "

Pat Sprinthall: " Oh yeh, and conkers yeh, yeh. "

Current Middle Street School pupils interviewing: " Did you do skipping? "

Pat Sprinthall: " Oh skipping, I forgot we used to do skipping with a rope you know, there was a rhyme we used to do for skipping, I can't remember what it was now, yeh we did have rhymes you know, when you was playing in the playground...oh! 1,2,3 a-lairy, My balls down the airy, Don't forget to give it to Mary, Not to Charlie Chaplin...Fancy remembering that all of a sudden! [Laughs] "

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