Most of us probably remember our elementary school days with a sense of fondness.
And if you still live near the school where you spent your first years of education, chances are you may drive past it now and then, thinking of those simpler times.
But not all of us can do that, thanks to “progress.”
Such is the case for Muriel Spiece, a current member of our community advisory board. She shared these photos with us today, showing the school she had attended — The Matthias Sheeleigh School on Argyle Avenue, Ambler.
And in the top photo, you’ll see the smiling faces of the fourth-graders at the school in the 1961-62 class (yes, Muriel is among those students).

According to Spiece, the school was built in 1906 but, in order to make way for a parking lot, the stately building was torn down in the 1970s.
It’s a loss she still laments — as many of us do when we lose such an important piece of our childhood.