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I believe I was at the boys school at the same time as your brothers. I think they were 4th year when I in was 2nd.

Its been great reading all this, I live in Telford these days, I am a Drakeley from 23 The Lea, Kitts Green. Does anyone remember my dads privet hedge? it was a horse and jockey with a few curl after. It came close to causing a few accidents because of drivers looking at it as they passed. I...

Hi there, if David was born in 50 he would not gone to secondary until 1961 when he was 11, I remember the names but didn't know them personally. I was born 1953 so when I was in 1st year they would probably be in 4th or 5th year. Wouldn't want to cast blame on anybody but, they were of the...

Thank you for such a quick reply. I have been sent a photo from America of my Uncle Bert and he is with a young girl that looks like my sister, she is in a bib top dark skirt and I thought it might be her uniform, obviously not. Thanks.

Lea village Girls Eh! My sister went there around 1960, Sonia Drakeley, we are from "The Lea" kitts Green. Could any of you describe the girls uniform for me?

Long shot I know but, do any of you girls out there remember what the Lea Village Girls uniform was??

I have over the last couple of years done a lot of work on the family tree, I have yet to come across a relative known to have moved to Coventry though there are a lot names that I have lost track of. Also , my family seem to have originated in Nuneaton since around 1870. There were several...

Hello again, John was my eldest brother, the family was, Mom and dad Fred and Vera, John, Jean, Thomas, Peter Sonia and myself Ray. I am the only one left, living in Shropshire.

I am Raymond Frederick, I went to lea village and cockshut Hill 65/69

I remeber him, funny little guy with a moustache . Do you remember the school play that he produced, king Arthur and the burnt cakes, it was in the afternoon, he was pissed from the pub shouted out forgotten lines and got lost in the curtains.

Hi Biff, we must have been there together, I am Ray Drakeley born '53 was also kicked out july 1966 (1c, 2c) and went to Cockshut Hill (3c, 4c&5c, Dunce). Mr Archer kept his cane in a long carbard tube ontop of the cupboard, when he used it he would tap his heels twice before starting the...

I was there 66, 69, I remember Williams, not only lifted you by the sideboards but would stand you at the front, walk around you for a while then suddenly dead leg you, it took a while to get back to your desk. I still remember the Jacobean uprisings of 1715/1745 that he hammered into us. Why...

Thats great, I am 67 my older brother took me to the China garden, my parents took me to South Pacific and from Russia with love, can't he,p enjoying childhoodmems.

I can only remember Lyons cafe, top of new street oh! The China gardens ( i think) in front of the Gaumont cinema where I saw from Russia with love.