The children from Fort Victoria were very poor, and we were scared of them; they were army children. We were poor but we were dressed all right. They used to have sticks and hit everybody. They were tough, we didn’t like them. They used to walk all the way from Fort Victoria in the morning and then go home at lunchtime, and back again for the afternoon session.

I used to wonder how they got home in time to have their lunch and get back in time for school. We could go home for lunch, not far to go, a couple of hundred yards.
Pat Burt nee Adams b 1929