Miss Allen’s precious fabric

I lived in Hornsey Road (opposite the gates to the boys dept of the secondary school) I went to Peckham Rd Infants and juniors from 1951 until 1957. My younger sister, Barbara, followed two years later. I remember my time there as a very happy one although I was very shy and didn’t mix very well. I remember Miss Boot, who was the head of the infants. Miss Allen, who taught us to sew in the first year of juniors and got most upset one day when someone said that they ‘hadn’t got any RAG’ to sew on. She was furious that any one could call her precious fabric ‘RAG’