This building is now part of the Hope campus in Everton. My father and his brother attended this school, as did many many Liverpool boys. He was a scholarship student, and so was in the C stream throughout until the year of the School Certificate, when the scholarship boys were ‘promoted’ to the A stream. That’s the way he told it, anyway!

The school is now based in Woolton, and has its own website.

Frank HITCHMOUGH attended St. Francis Xavier Infant school from 1952-1954. He writes: “Memories are few. No staff members come to mind. I was 5 years old. My older brothers attended the SFX senior school and their playground was on the top of the building/senior school that overlooked the infant play area. I remember the school being dark.”