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I remember " Gandhi " - I always assume it was spelt like that - as a Maths teacher. He taught me, or attempted to, at Byron Road in the mid - 60s. He was at the end of his career and I have memories of an exasperated though endearing man who was pleasantly surprised on those odd occasions when...

Mrs Boot must have resurfaced as she was still teaching there in the mid - 60s.

Is this the Michael Newman, associate of people like Digby Singleton, who attended Lyndon Green Junior School?

I was a pupil at Lyndon Green in the 1950s and for most of the last two years there I was in Mr Samuel's class. I was initially scared of him as he had a forceful manner and a variable temper especially if he had a cold. But I soon realised that he was an inspiring teacher. His task was to get...

I realise that this is going off at a tangent but I read in the newspaper this weekend that in the late C19th or early C20th there was a Clarion House in Sheldon, possibly linked to a cycling club. Has anyone any ideas/information about this?

I am sure that I remember Boswell Taylor, the headteacher of Lyndon Green School at the time, telling us in assembly about the transporting of the Gilberstone from the Coventry Road to the school. He said an old legend had it that it would take six men and the Devil to move it. I assume he stood...

I remember " Float" being a Deputy Head in the 60s at Waverley. I always thought the name referred to the serene way she moved, as if on castors, and her general air of being slightly above it all.

Girl Herrick did live in Brays Road in the house next to the entry to the Pond.Peter Murphy also lived in the same road, no. 86 I think and when he left Dick Neal lived there.