When I went to Yarmouth School we had two classrooms with coal-burning stoves, and outside toilets.

Most of the children lived locally although a few came from Thorley.

We were used to the high tides in the winter. The sea came over the wall and half the playground flooded and you couldn’t use the toilets.

The land at the back of the school, now the car park, was an open rubbish dump. There were always flies in the summer.
Betty Coates Evans nee Lock b 1938