Serener Skies

(This post is based on one I wrote for my now defunct 'St Cyr On Wheels' blog back in March 2021. I find that for one reason or another over the years I have left a trail of sad-looking, lonely, overgrown and abandoned blogs behind me, and given that I would really like to make a go of this one I have decided to move over to the new format anything from the old ones that seems relevant. Also it's easier than thinking of something new to write, but you never heard me say that.

At Primary School back at the end of the 1960’s the one thing in the classroom that fascinated and attracted me the most was its collection of dolls houses. They were Victorian dolls houses, which is unsurprising because Northcote Road Primary School in Walton, Liverpool, was itself a Victorian institution; one of those rather dour-looking dark red brick buildings that at the time seemed to be making no concession to their aesthetic appeal but in retrospect appear to hold up