Walking to school in the 60s and 70s

I don't recall many getting 'lifts' to school - busses lots of them but many walked from Linthorpe to Acklam: Hustler, Boynton, Kings Manor & St Georges, I know I did - first year at Hustler was Linthorpe to Acklam, google maps makes it about 1.5 miles & 30 mins ( though not allowing me to take any short cuts)

Just expected back then.
 
2 buses each way.
Left home every morning at 07:20.
didnt get home till after 5 pm at night.
 
I used to walk across Eston Rec with my sister from Grangetown to St Peter's in South Bank in all weathers from the age of 7, she will have been 9. I would say it took roughly 30 mins.
 
I was quite lucky in that regard really. Was mostly the 80s then early 90s by the time I did it though.

Primary school; about a third of a mile or 6 minutes, most of it down Eccleston Walk, Eastergate. Did it unaccompanied by parent from about the age of 6.
Senior School; Slightly longer, perhaps 7 minutes across Saltersgill Field.
6th Form; Across same field in a diagonal, about 10 minutes.

Much less than a lot my age, but longer than a lot of kids today are prepared to walk or be allowed to walk, amazingly.
 
I also remember during the summer hols both parents & older siblings working or college having the keys to the house & the message "just don't burn it down" & "don't answer the door & don't let anyone in" that would be the junior school days pre year 11... that would not be allowed now :ROFLMAO:
 
Primary school was at least 30 minutes walk - First secondary school was only 20 minutes.

second secondary school was 30 minutes rural walk, we lived in a village near Whitby then and in Whitby kids switched school @14, so it was another 30 mintues.

When I was 12 my parents were going to move to Dale Head in Rosedale. It would have been a taxi to Rosedale Abbey village, then coach to Pickering. I was dreading the early starts and the extra hours.
 
When we were a little older in senior school, I remember walking to school one Monday morning after we had watched Alfred Hitchcock's film The Birds over the weekend. It must have been this time of year with the weather wet, dark and miserable and when we got to the pitch and putt golf course on Eston Rec the field was full of crows and seagulls. The two of us panicked and started to run which startled the birds and they all took flight over our heads. This scared us even more with the birds flying over our heads similar to the attack scenes in the film. I think we played this scene out for the rest of the week until we realised the birds weren't going to hurt us. :oops: 🤣🤣
 
1 mile walk to Stainsby from our house.
20 minutes walk unless we stopped off at the House Shop on Priory Ave, or Ushers shop on Heythrop Drive.
 
Primary and Junior school was by car. As a teen, I had a choice of a mile walk to pick up a school bus from the railway station. Sometimes I’d meet a mate en route (different direction) and walk the 2.3 miles from home that took around 35-40 mins walk both ways. On the days when it poured down or was blowing a gale from the sea, I’d get the bus from home to the station and then the school bus but If i wanted to do that any other time (when weather was ok) it came out of my pocket money.
 
BobUpnDown said:
I don't recall many getting 'lifts' to school - busses lots of them but many walked from Linthorpe to Acklam: Hustler, Boynton, Kings Manor & St Georges, I know I did - first year at Hustler was Linthorpe to Acklam, google maps makes it about 1.5 miles & 30 mins ( though not allowing me to take any short cuts)

Just expected back then.
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It was St George's for me. From not far from the church close to the Keith Road and The Vale junction.

Also St Edwards junior school. Near the church at the bottom of The Avenue.
 
Redwurzel said:
Primary school was at least 30 minutes walk - First secondary school was only 20 minutes.

second secondary school was 30 minutes rural walk, we lived in a village near Whitby then and in Whitby kids switched school @14, so it was another 30 mintues.

When I was 12 my parents were going to move to Dale Head in Rosedale. It would have been a taxi to Rosedale Abbey village, then coach to Pickering. I was dreading the early starts and the extra hours.
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Key under the plant pot in the back garden….good job the burglars didn’t know that wise security device.
 
We live just a few minutes from the bus stop which will take my kids to secondary school, so they won't have the walk/bike ride I used to do. Out of interest I've just put my school days route through Google Maps and it says a half hour walk - felt like much longer when I had smaller legs.

Remarkably, I was always faster at walking home after school than I was on a morning going to school.
 
In the 60’s it was half an hour each way for infant School in Thorntree - crossing Cargo Fleet Lane.
Last couple of years of Infants we’d moved and it was 2 mins in Stainton

70’s - bus to Yarm (not the fee paying one of today, btw)
 
The days before fear was spread by the media and people became frightened of each other, and more compliant....we seen that at league football, rules are rules. Conform or you're out, backed by the fans who consider everything dangerous, whether it is or isn't.

Now we daren't let our kids walk to school, they don't play outside unless it's organised, fields are empty, tadpoles and minnows safe, the paths are full of conkers, hide and seek is an indoor sport.
 
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