Rod Corbett: Yarmouth School, 1950s

My first day at school didn’t last very long. There was an old Nissen hut in the playground, probably left over from where the Army had had a gun on the refuse tip next door. There was a table in it, so I climbed on with another boy who was starting school with me. I gave him a shove and knocked him off, and he howled – he was always a bit of a ‘boohoo’. Anyway, I thought, ‘I’d better not stay here’, so I ran home to Gran

Yarmouth School playground 1950s

Yarmouth School playground 1950s with Nissen hut

( my great grandmother who lived in Field Cottages).

Rod Corbett b 1943