Recent content by Colin Butters

Beyond who I think is Pete Dunne are two with their heads close together. I think the far one is Stephen Gould. See the captioned photograph on page 22 of this thread. It may help.

Next to Martin Ashcroft is, I think, Pete Dunne. I am not 100 per cent sure, the old memory is struggling 50 odd years on!

Definitely Dave Green. Yes, Greg Turvey. Glen Hatter, I believe.

Thanks for those names, I will keep thinking.

Thanks, Nigel. I guess that because there are no marks by my name, I didn’t go to London. I don’t remember going. But, I do remember a coach trip to Blackpool which was funded by the profits from the sixth form tea swindle which was run in the new sixth form block. The thing I remembered...

Right, A is Arts and S is Science?

OK. I am on list, third column, third row. I will need to think a bit about the names but i do remember many of them. I wonder what was the origin of this list? LS is lower sixth and US is upper sixth but what do the other letters indicate? Maybe I am slow, I usually was and am!!

David Proctor taught me Latin. However, I struggled partly because I was catching up from missing a year (see another of my posts). He used to get exasperated when he tested the class on vocabulary that was set for homework. He would go around the class, apparently randomly, and ask for the...

Ah, yes. You have jogged my memory. We used the side door with the bikes when I joined the school as a second former going into Form 2B. The form room was one of two back to back and built into an open space and was off the main corridor. I didn’t pass the eleven plus and went to secondary...

I never knew that. Thank you. The Rumsby block didn’t last too long. Say it was built in 1965 and it has now gone, that would be 55 years but I think it was gone before the turn of the century which makes it only a max. of 35 years. Don’t know when it went but might be able to look it up.

The Rumsby block was built when I was at the school. I vaguely remember an old pavilion where the block was built. It was off limits because it was all rotten and in a dangerous state. The pavilion we used was across on the other side of the field not far from where Stanmore school was built...

Thanks for that. When I was at the school, sometimes we went in through the entrance mentioned and sometimes in through a door which faced City Road but was down the side of the main building and only just out of shot in the photo. The tarmac leading to this door is just visible. If you were...

I assume that any bells would be in that small ‘tower’ on the apex of the roof. I am sure that the big tower was not in the Boys Grammar school part of the complex. Incidentally, I walked past the school a couple of years ago and the entrance to the building directly in line with the gate just...

Some pupils names from my year:- Peter Cooley Tony Burley Hawkes twins ? Kornhauser ? Griffiths Peter Barry Jackson Bob Lench Duncan Muffett John Posnett Raynor Bourton Rod Watts ? Forbes ? Kanji Ron Drury Barry Smith Alan Timmins Chris Ball I am sorry that I cannot remember some Christian...

Thank you, David.