Does anyone remember...........?

Yes calandergirl I think you a right thank you.
The tune sounds right .
Lord of all hopefullnes is indeed a lovely hymn .

I am totally not religious but I remember this book - and its sequel - so well. I know the arranger.

I used to play these on the piano with my DDs and also they would join in on recorders and other instruments. They gave us lots of pleasure.

I now have "Lord of all Hopefulness" running through my mind. Such a lovely hymn. I have a double cd of hymns I will have to see if it is on it.
Thank you for reminding me

There was a Sunday television programme called Songs of Praise. I cannot remember whether it was on ITV or BBC, but I think this is the hymn book that was used on it.

Either the Scottish National Library or the Library at the British Museum in London should have a copy or at least be able to supply a photocopy of the index.

Cherrytree59

Lexigranny still got mine in the loft.
Also had thin covered pale blue hymn book to go with it, but can't remember why.
Any other GNer have one?

Can ask another question?
In the morning if we were not in assembly, we would sing Morning has broken in our classroom.
After putting the chairs on the desk at the end of day, we would sing an evening hymn.
Can anyone help with what it could have been?
As I typed 'at the end of the day's something stirred in my mind?

Could it have been ‘Lord Of All Hopefulness’?

Final line of fourth verse-

‘Your peace in our hearts, Lord, at the end of the day’.

#Number 565.

Welshwife Thank you for reminding me. I too remember singing 'Hands together softly so... I can hear the tune in my head now. A warm, comforting memory.

I had two, one with the music which my sister now has. That one has a nicer cover as it was quite new when I received it. The smaller one had gone through many children’s hands and was quite battered!

Ashcombe. Judging by the replies my memory is proving a bit defective, but I seem to remember that The end of the Day was originally a song sung in the 50s by Gracie Fields and later by Harry Secombe, though it looks quite appropriate for young children.

Blossoming That is the one! I had two of them, one from each school, though I think they were more Royal Blue in colour. I have no idea what happened to them unfortunately. I could well believe that they were both the original 1929 edition, as everyone was so thrifty during my school days, I could imagine them being used until the cover dropped off, so maybe they were handed in.

Ooh, I don’t know how I managed to do a quote and a photo!

Lexisgranny

I would have been using it through the 50s and up to 1961. I do so hope that WAKWHS and DAOS were not relegated from the first page, such treachery! We all learned to read at a very early age, but I don’t think hymn books were involved until about 7yoa.

Songs of Praise Enlarged Edition.

At infants school we used to sing :-
Hands together softly so, little eyes shut tight
Father just before we go, hear our prayer tonight.

How about this :-

www.youtube.com/watch?v=IskfD4q-7HY

Whingingmom I started school 1965 , so it is quite possible that was our evening song. I will try and see if I can hear the tune via Google/YouTube, hopefully that will jolt my memory

Ashcombe do you think that is a prayer rather than a hymn/song?,.
I'm off to Google.

Thank you both?

Our hymn books were red and had the name Cary Bonner on the front. How on earth I've remembered that I don't know

Cherrytree59: I found this by googling the words you recalled:-

Cherrytree59 - we used to sing a hymn at the end of the school day too. All the chairs were put on top of the desks and we would stand, hands together, eyes closed and sing
Now the day is over
Night is drawing nigh
Shadows of the evening
Steal across the sky ... and that’s all I can remember. Would be about1963 at infants school.

I remember being issued a hymn book at grammar school which we then had to back with wallpaper and pretty ribbon. I never really saw the front of it again.

Lexigranny still got mine in the loft.
Also had thin covered pale blue hymn book to go with it, but can't remember why.
Any other GNer have one?

Can ask another question?
In the morning if we were not in assembly, we would sing Morning has broken in our classroom.
After putting the chairs on the desk at the end of day, we would sing an evening hymn.
Can anyone help with what it could have been?
As I typed 'at the end of the day's something stirred in my mind?

I would have been using it through the 50s and up to 1961. I do so hope that WAKWHS and DAOS were not relegated from the first page, such treachery! We all learned to read at a very early age, but I don’t think hymn books were involved until about 7yoa.

Can’t find it yet. Going to have to go in the loft next!!

And yes, Morning Has Broken is number 30.

When A Knight Won His Spurs is number 377.

I have the same hymn book, a relic from my grammar school. Not sure why I didn’t hand it in when I left!

Daisies are our Silver is number 354 though, not on the first page. It’s in Part V1, For Children.

Can’t do a picture, sorry, It’s Oxford University Press, my edition is 35th impression, published 1963.

I started grammar school in 1964.

I remember it clearly, although I went on to a Catholic school when I was 9. I seem to remember that Morning has Broken was No 30.

Some of those hymns were sheer poetry! I loved “Hills of the North Rejoice”.

I think it is one of the hymn books I still have ........ somewhere. I will have to go and search.