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Tracey Karen McMahon (nee Pinchess) was born in 1969 inLuton and Dunstable Hospital and lived at 33 RecreationRoad, Houghton Regis, Dunstable, Bedfordshire.
She went to four schools in all: Thornberry Infants, HillboroughJunior, Brandreth Middle and Houghton Regis Upper School.
I attended Hillborough Junior School in Hillborough Crescent,Houghton Regis until 1978, prior to that I had been at theinfants' school next door.
The school was pulled down shortly after I left, when theeducation system changed to lower, middle and upper schools.There are now houses where the school used to be.
The infants school Thornberry remains, but has had its namechanged to Thornhill (integrating the two names). It's areal shame. The school was on the very edge of town, andthe view over the school playing fields to the cornfieldsand beyond on a summer's afternoon were truly breathtaking(and probably wasted on a bunch of 6-8 year olds!)
I remember we used to have an outdoor swimming pool madeof blue plastic, where you climbed up a ladder to get into.It was always freezing cold and all the kids thought itwas some form of torture!
The weather over the Christmas holidays one year had beenso cold that the pool froze over. It was during this coldsnap that the caretakers black cat tried to walk acrossthe icy pool, much to his own detriment.
Poor thing fell right through the middle, got trapped underthe ice, and drowned! Not a very lucky black cat that one!It then took another week before the poor thing could beretrieved from its watery grave because no-one could reachit through the ice, so there it floated for all the kidsto see for the next week!
Karen McMahon, Bedfordshire, 2002
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