Yes Brian, I remember the clinic. I attended but I can't remember why. All I can recall is climbing a rope ladder, and yes it was a good skive.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) d.r.boddy@btinternet.com

I remember this place.It was on the right hand side up Spring Gardens Lane.I also remember finding out that you could avoid dental treatment there by going to other dentists in the town.Unfortunately this took you to practitioners such as Platt on North St and Mitchell on Lalkholme Crescent.I believe the one with the worst reputation was a gentleman called Sutcliffe Ramsden? Didnt go near him.

Sutcliffe Ramsden! Thereby hangs a tale.

Do you know why Brian?

Because he literally 'followed in his father's footsteps'. In those days you didn't have to qualify and Sutcliffe apparently continued the family business from his father's 'surgery' upstairs on Lawkholme Crescent (was it), just above Riley's stationery shop, now long gone, on the corner of Cavendish Street.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) david.baldwin@maverickeurope.com

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I always thought that Ramsden was somewhere up Devonshire St.I believe the practice on Lalkholme Cres. to be under the name of Bolton.Ex KBGS man Philip Milburn, who has recently sold his Newsagents on the corner of Lalkholme Lane, would probably know.I was talking to him a few weeks ago and we were trying to recall the name of the Menswear shop which was higher up Cavendish St.
It was Pierces(probably spelt it wrong)

In answer to your question Brian the outfitters was Pearcey's and at least one of the Pearcey lads was at KBGS during our time. It was one of the registered suppliers of school uniform for schools in Keighley including KBGS. Regarding Milburn's paper shop - I can still conjur-up the smell of the newsprint. It also used to sell 'dirty' magazines though in those days (the late 50s and early 60s)they were in black and white with the naughty parts blanked out. Hardly pornography as we've come to know it but copies were occasionally passed from hand to hand around the playground.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) gwalker@diocant.org

Another notorious dentist up Devonshire street was called Tomlinson. He was in fact our family dentist where my parents went, but I was always sent to E S Midgley at the clinic. Im not sure which would have been worse.

Years at KBGS e.g. 1958-1964 (optional) brianmoate@hotmail.com

There was also a Mr Clay - a much less vigorous dental practitioner. I always hoped I got him. Also at the Clinic in I think 1953, there was offered mass vaccination against the smallpox outbreak that was particularly telling in Shipley and Baildon. The queues were down Spring Gardens Lane. If you had a reaction you were excused showers after PT. My upper arm swelled up and there was a quite sore scab formed. I remember seeing one young woman pull up her skirt and show more female leg than I had ever seen before to have the prick on her upper leg (I think they called them thighs) - to avoid the possibility of an unsightly scar on her upper arm - no doubt to avoid embarrassment when she was playing tennis. She was one of Miss Evans' bigger girls.