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Some time ago I saw a programme with Cillian Murphy interviewing Julie Walters. It's perhaps on iPlayer - I can't remember the title. The Irish accent is well to the fore!

Another article: https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/11/the-peaky-blinders-film-will-tell-us-where-to-go-next-steven-knight-on-his-shows-final-series

There's an article about Steven Knight in this week's Waitrose free paper. It talks about the final series, and working in Hollywood.

Someone on Twitter has reminded me of the flat which was off the Domestic Science room. This person also went to a school that had a flat. Was it ever really used? Once we made Danish Open Sandwiches and had them at lunchtime in the flat, probably in our second year with Miss Powell.

Somewhere I've got my Saltley school scarf. I still wear a crystal on a silver chain that was a birthday present from my parents in 1975.

Mr Bennett was on the point of retirement when I started at the school so he didn't teach me, but I remember seeing him in the corridors, with his beret and gown.

I think we had a class photo every year.

The middle one looks like a still from a film!

Miss Thompson had an MA from Cambridge, as I think did Mr Chippendale. Once when we were in the Sixth Form I and my friend Stephen went to a Shakespeare event at the university with various actors and Gareth Lloyd Evans, a Shakespeare scholar. Miss T. knew him, how well I don't know, and asked...

Miss Hulse was Deputy Head, and she and Miss Thompson were friends. Once they went on holiday to Yugoslavia where they stayed in a monastery, and Miss T. told me that they communicated with the monks in Latin! Miss Hulse was extremely posh, I thought. I kept in touch with them, especially Miss...

Mrs Capon would probably have been wearing a track suit. Needlework was Mrs Griffiths, I think, and Domestic Science was a red-haired teacher (the name escapes me at the moment!) Was it Miss Powell?

Mr Kinder, also very good, was my A level French teacher.

That sounds terrifying! Mr Shakespeare always seemed very fierce. I was once sent down to the playing field where he was teaching to ask him to come into school (can't remember why, maybe a First Aid thing), and that was frightening enough.

I started in 1965. Never used the trampoline myself, but I remember it being in the gym. I do remember Mr Cherry, who was very genial. His wife, Miss Windsor, was my French teacher and one of my favourites.

I don't, but I think you were a few years ahead of me, though not many. Perhaps they had stopped doing it then?

I remember Mr KIng. I was in three school plays, so very familiar with the stage!

In the film 'The History Boys' the classroom reminded me of Room 61 - 6 Mod and Miss Thompson.

It was. I don't think I realised at the time how good it was.

That sounds grim.

Something I noticed that affected me in the same way was the absence of the case with trophies in the Red Hall. And the fact that the stage had gone. I'll see if I can find the video again.