tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post2593195644919342828..comments2023-05-03T23:40:19.249+08:00Comments on Seri Kepayang: Discovering KirkbyAzizi Ahmad Termizi:http://www.blogger.com/profile/17347425665467458950noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post-78135194538722493752016-06-23T20:41:17.524+08:002016-06-23T20:41:17.524+08:00Fiona
Thanks for dropping by and leaving some com...Fiona<br /><br />Thanks for dropping by and leaving some comments. The MTTC must have been a very good place indeed. Sad to see its gone now. <br /><br />AziziAzizi Ahmad Termizi:https://www.blogger.com/profile/17347425665467458950noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post-87148156864994805622016-06-23T19:40:53.208+08:002016-06-23T19:40:53.208+08:00I am delighted to read your comments and see the p...I am delighted to read your comments and see the photos!<br />My dad: John Grant was the Bursar at Kirkby Malayan Teachers College (from ??) until early in 1960. I was born there and was told many stories by my parents of what a good place it was. <br />May its memory live on!<br />Fiona (formerly Grant) Fiona (Grant)https://www.blogger.com/profile/11064559059181343973noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post-16996298544068852292013-03-09T04:16:39.104+08:002013-03-09T04:16:39.104+08:00Hi
Just found your blog on 'Discovering Kirkb...Hi<br /><br />Just found your blog on 'Discovering Kirkby'. I have vague but happy memories of the Teacher Training College. I lived on the other side of the railway that effectively separated the new town of Kirkby from the older village side where the college was situated. I remember, aged about six or seven (now almost 58), walking around the strange flat roofed houses that bordered onto the college. In the streets some students were celebrating what I assume was the Chinese New Year(?) with a vivid dragon dance. I also remember the path that ran alongside the college separating it from the back gardens of the local houses. That path, which linked Kirkby to Melling, was known locally as 'the cinder path' as it was made up of -yes! - cinders. In later years the college was renamed 'Kirkby Fields Teacher Training College'; it subsequently became a government depot or base of some sort until finally and sadly falling into disuse before eventually being developed for housing. Anyway, best wishes to all who remember the old place!Ian Cragg (formerly of Lingtree Road)noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post-57352065936045961462012-02-29T18:22:33.499+08:002012-02-29T18:22:33.499+08:00Thank you for posting the recent pictures. I lived...Thank you for posting the recent pictures. I lived in south park road from 1954-1972 and remember all the original bounderies and the college very well. As children we stood at the gate to the college to collect stamps from students . Our first glimpse at real foreign stamps. The shops,on Glovers brow at this time were aaa you say Kirkby stores , to the left was the post office come haberdashery store and to the right was Chisnalls a convenience type store , then a gap before the betting shop. <br />The coal merchant was behind the railway public house and a wooden built shop along the stretch of south park road towards the college housed a hairdreser and fish and chip outlet. <br />The college caretaker had a female dog, which every time it came into season caused my dog to vault all the garden fences to try and get to it.<br />About halfway down south park road near the junction with park road was a convenience shop in the ground floor of the flat on the corner. At the bottom of south park road , junction with Mount road was a community club. Here the mobile library visited , my first introduction to being able to borrow books. Dance classes took place on a Saturday morning and the bar and club was open in the evening. A girls club took place on a weekday evening run by a Miss Blake who had a flat on South park road. The gardens which backed onto the college from South Park road were all the same length as the houses at the top of the road. A gravel path ran the length of the back gardens and a brook with hawthorn was between the gardens and the pathway which exited by the main college entrance.<br />At the other end of the gravel path there was access to Staion Road which took you over the boundary to Waddicar. All the post war properties on the kirkby park estate had flat roofs ( do have pictures) these changed to gable roofs in the seventies after I left. <br />Traffic was sparse, most front gardens had neatly trimmed hedges. As Kirkby began to be built there was still a pigsty by the bus stop to get the bus to the Black Bull, probably around 1958 , i can remember the smell well!! Hope this is of interest , my regards to the ex pupils of the college and thanks for the stamps!!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post-47616581739476382612011-01-24T20:04:35.471+08:002011-01-24T20:04:35.471+08:00This pilgrimage is a part of a documentary produce...This pilgrimage is a part of a documentary produced by Filem Negara Malaysia (FNM) that will be aired on Hari Guru Kebangsaan on 16 May 2011. Among dignitaries that will be invited to join this tour are:<br />1) DYMM Sultan of Perak and Tengku Bainun - as Royal Patron<br />2) DSU Dr Rais Yatim, Minister of Communication and Culture<br />3) Malaysian Highcom to UK<br />4) British Highcom to Malaysia<br />5) British Council Director<br />6) Tan Sri Azman Mokhtar, son of Mokhtar Daud, Kirkby alumni<br />7) Datuk Seri Farid Ridhuan, son of Ridhuan Ali, Kirkby alumni<br />Others interested please sms your name and spouse to Tan Sri Yahaya Ibrahim 012-6802217, the organizer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6265212458320739042.post-4760991733879058452011-01-24T19:55:20.590+08:002011-01-24T19:55:20.590+08:00TQ Azizi for your detail report. For your info Kir...TQ Azizi for your detail report. For your info Kirkby College Alumni Society is planning to organize a pilgrimage back to Kirkby sometime this February or March 2011. The purpose of this visit is to put up a plaque at the former MTTTC site with statements: <br />1) this is the site of MTTC Kirkby 1952-1962 <br />2) This college was unique as the only foreign teachers college on British soil <br />3) On this site Merdeka was officilly announced by Tunku Abdul Rahman on 7 Feb 1956.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com