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School run in the fifties

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Lona Sat 16-Jan-16 18:32:36

When I was eleven, in the fifties, I had a 15 minute walk to get the bus for a three mile journey to school. We had special school buses.

Alea Sat 16-Jan-16 18:25:19

With a 3 mile trip, are the children mot eligible for a school bus? These existed in the Fifties and I am fairly certain children were never expected to walk that distance. With modern traffic it would be highly hazardous!

downtoearth Sat 16-Jan-16 18:17:51

walk collecting younger children on the way,main road and a dangerous level crossing to negotiate at the age of 6 until 11 ..

MamaCaz Sat 16-Jan-16 18:17:33

Exactly how young are your children, FiftiesChick? Although I wasn't even born in the fifties, I do remember that in the late sixties, my fellow classmates in primary school would have done such a journey alone on the local bus , without any adult, from about seven years old, assuming at least that there was a bus route between home and school. That's really not something that you could do nowadays!

Coolgran65 Sat 16-Jan-16 18:12:22

P3 I walk 2 miles to school and home again on my own. No car and no bus route.

ninathenana Sat 16-Jan-16 18:07:11

My primary school was luckily just across the road. When I started senior school I went by bike.

FiftiesChick12 Sat 16-Jan-16 18:00:26

Hi, I'm a mum of three young children and I'm about to start an experience of living a fifties kind of life ? I was just wondering.....we have 3 mile each way journey to school. If this really was the 1950s how would we have done this? Walk, bike, bus?? Obviously not car as we do now.... Thanks