The first Gorham School was built in 1818 and it was built from money given by Liverpool Residents James and Jedidah Gorham. The Gorham's house was located where the Liverpool Town Hall is now located. The Gorhams were wealthy people and had no children so they used their money wisely and in most cases invested it in the education system in Liverpool. It was written that by the 1950s the first Gorham School had 2 classrooms and was heated with hot water heat. It was not in the best condition at that time and the future of the building did not look promising. In the later 1960's the school was demolished and a new building was constructed by the Liverpool Lions Club which was the new Girl Guide Hall. The Lions Club use the basement for their affairs, while the Girl Guides use the upstairs. The building was built by Mosher and Rawding, the size of the new building 30 x 50 at a cost of $25,000. It officially opened in February 1970.
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| Gorham School - corner of Church and Gorham Streets |
The Gorhams left their mark in Liverpool. The had the school named in their honor and later the Gorham School on Payzant Street named for them. They also have Gorham Street named after them and there was also Gorham College which I will write about in another story later. There was also Gorham Memorial Library on Gorham Street where Butch Cook and Sons have their business. Next to the Cooks building is a fenced in area where there are 2 gravestones which are the gravesites for James and Jedidah Gorham.
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| The Liverpool Girl Guide Hall in 1996. |
First school, first strap....it was hard to pay attention with all those popsicle sticks in my pocket, saved from Dannies just down the hill so Ms. Mulhall strapped me with a ruler. I was saving the sticks to make those triangle things that you could throw...and other things made out of popsicle sticks made by weaving them together. Figuring popsicle stick configurations would eventually put a man on the moon but in 1954 the links to differential calculus remained shaky.
ReplyDeleteI went there for primary!
ReplyDeletei went there for primary school
ReplyDeleteI didn't go to this school.....I started Primary across the street at the old Academy and my teacher was Mrs. Manthorne (Vida). She was a wonderful lady. I still have my first report card.
ReplyDeleteI attended the new Gorham School on Payzant Street. When I started there, the school was P to 4, but the year I should have been in Grade 4, the school became a P to 3 school, so we had to walk all the way to the Academy for Grade 4....no bus...the King Street/Wolfe Street Kids didn't get a bus until Grade 10. When I attended Gorham School the Teachers were Stephanie Hurrell, Evelyn Lundrigan, Anne Wolfe, Blanche Nickerson with Chuck McLellan for gym and Terry Hurrell for Music....Frank Babin was our principal. My fondest memory was the round fountains for washing hands in the bathrooms..they were so cool.....AND of course, being terrified of the criminals next door at the jail! LOL And I loved that we could walk home for lunch!
ReplyDeleteI went there for Primary! Teacher was Mrs. Crosby .Very nice lady who still lives in Liverpool.
ReplyDeleteI went to Guides in that hall
ReplyDeleteWhen i went to the Gorham school my first grade was called Little grade 1 Big grade 1 they didn"t call it primary at that time .My teacher was Mrs Rodgers.Now Mrs RK Mackinnon lives down the Fort.She was so nice and she still is.
ReplyDeleteLittle grade one. Yes, I had forgotten. Technically called Kindergarten in other provinces, but following the war taxpayers in NS did not want to pay for kindergarten, seen more as nursery school. So the name was changed from Kindergarten to Primary in order to protect the program. My cousin David talked about this. Little Grade One was school. We sat at desks and did schoolwork, were taught to read and print in Primary and were not allowed to play with popsicle sticks. I went to this school in 1954.
ReplyDeleteI went to Brownies in this old building...thanks for reminding me.
ReplyDeleteMy very first school! My favouarite teacher too, Mrs. Crosby.
ReplyDeleteI attended this school.... we still had separate entrances for the boys and girls! Mrs. Betty Mulhall was my teacher.
ReplyDeleteRe the Gorhams... you mentioned that their home was the town hall, but i was told that their home was where the town hall now is and they had it moved to court street... the large apartment building set back from the street owned by bernard amiralt....then the town hall as we knew it, was built. imagine moving a house! also, the orange house across from my corner on top of court street... formerly the trainor's house, had the house that is half way down the street...where kathy stitt lived... attached to it... and that too was moved... unless people are just telling wild stories!!
ooops... don't know where 'talking head' cae from... that last post was from kathryn killam
ReplyDeleteI remember this school well. Went there for Grade Primary and the teacher was Mrs. Mulhall. She was a sweetheart. From there I moved across the street for Big Grade One with Mrs. Lowe.
ReplyDeleteI attended "Little Grade One" there with Mrs. Zwicker. They moved me mid year to "Big Grade One" at the academy across the street. The separate boy's and girl's entrances led to a cloak room. They used wood and coal in the stove at the back of the room. I was 5 years old in December, thus the move. We were taught to print and read that early. World War 2 was raging and we all collected lots of fat in cans for explosives to help the war effort. In later years when I was president of the Nova Scotia Teachers' Union, I had an emotional, but proud task to present a gift on behalf of all teachers to my first teacher, Mrs. Zwicker, on the occasion of her retirement. She was a wonderful lady, and remembered with gratitude.
ReplyDeleteI remember an old building on the opposite corner from the Girl Guide Hall. It was unpainted and either a church or church hall.
ReplyDeleteWhile I do not remember the name of my little Grade 1 teacher, I will never forget the sting of either the round pointer or edge of the yardstick across the back of my left hand every time I reached for a pencil or tried to write or do anything else using that hand. Right handed only was the rule of the day. I often wonder what I lost by being forced into right handedness.
I have fond memories of Mrs. Mulhall. I also remember her son, John. He joined the RCAF and became a pilot. I can still hear the sound of his Saber jet the day he "buzzed" Liverpool to say "Hello" to her and flew across towards the mill. He died flying. I joined Air Cadets and later became a pilot because of the day he "buzzed" Liverpool. I have always wanted to get my hands on a Saber jet and do the exact same thing.
I also remember, from 1955-56, being given a sugar cube with a drop of pink liquid on it. It was oral polio vaccine. Dr. Bell was the "needle doctor" and we were all afraid of him. He and the pain from a needle were synonymous. That day we did not get a needle but rather we stood in front of the big oak teacher's desk while he put a pink drop on the cube and we had to eat it then and there. I think Liverpool was a trial for the vaccine. It worked because I don't remember anyone getting polio in Liverpool after that.
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