walls, capping to go around the top and enough quarter round for the floor. Mr. Clark was to take the measurements and Wallace MacKenzie and JS Mac- Leod to do the work. They each received $1.50.

These later renovations probably pleased the students as Lyman Ross recalled freezing in his first years of school. He said the walls were so thin that in places there were big holes punched in them.

Ken ROSS recalled that he had seen the first car and had his first drive in one at Bridgetown School. Ken told us that they were not allowed to look out the school windows but the teacher, Bessie Prowse, saw a car coming and she said “There’s an automobile coming, you can all get up and look if you want to.” The children all scrambled to the window. His first car ride was in 1918. Mr. Mullins, the School Inspector at that time had a car. Everyone seemed to know their lessons pretty good and the Inspector was in fairly good humour. When he was leaving he said, “Now everybody that’s going my way, get in”. Strangely enough it turned out that everyone just happened to be going that way so as many as possible crowded in and had a little car ride.

Some of the notables educated at Bridgetown School were Harold Clay who became a School Inspector, Fred MacDonald who became a vet, Edwin Clay who became a doctor, and Murray Creed who is an executive producer with 0.8.0 in Toronto for the past thirty years. One program he produced was Market Place. Other notables included Dr. Carl Ross, who has a PhD in nuclear physics and works for the National Research Council in Ottawa. Ms. Jean Ross is a Medical Artist at the University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario.

Library books for Bridgetown School were obtained at the library in Annan- dale. This library was at John Howlett’s home for years.

In talking to parents of former pupils of this school and to former pupils themselves we learned it was a common practice for the children to call at the Cheese factory on the way to school and again on the way home in the evening to

get some curds. It was common for the children to land home from school, their pockets bulging with curds.

in the spring of 1962, Bridgetown bridge was flooded out and portions of it washed away. They had to build a new one and traffic was detoured through Upton, and Strathcona. This detour however did not help the students who lived on the west side of BridgetOWn. They had to find a new way to cross the water to get to school. Linda Campbell recalled that for a couple of days they walked on

the ice cakes to get across until their parents found out and then they were taken across by boat.

This school remained open until consolidation in 1966. The last teacher being Mary MacKinnon. The school was put up for sale and Danny MacMaster bought the old schoolhouse. He and his family live there today.

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