"We used to hear the bell ringing and we used to hear it stop. All the children was in the class ranks ready to go into school and there used to be about 6 of us always playing marbles at the corner of Bedford Street. Anyway when we used to get into school, Bill Currie made us go and wash our hands, cause it was cold water - and then when you washed your hands and dried your hands you went back into school and you had the cane, and you knew you had it with cold hands. Anyway I got hardened to that because I was a little devil when I was at school".
					Cecil Marks started at Beaudesert Boys' School in 1926 when he was 7 years old. He moved up from the Beaudesert Infants School.