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By the way the above By the way the above was written by me David Hart!

Phil Street Phil Street, one of my deputies when I was School Captain during my final school year 1970/71. Must say I have more memories of a rather academic sophisticated Malcolm Ridout than of you. Remember you as a freckled blondish person mad about football which I loathed. What did you...

Hi Graham, great to see a post from you! I have fond memories of you at GD. You were of course one of my prefects 1970-71. I hope you are well. No doubt you have a large family now. Are you still working or retired. I heard you were a financial adviser. I’m still working as a GP in a totally...

Hi Fred, i remember you well especially as your birthday is a day before mine. Yours is 29th June and mine is 30th June. I remember you in the sixth form and saw you on a recent photo of us all in 1971 which was posted here. So like me you’re 68 now. Where have 50 years gone? What are you doing...

Yes, Paul Wolf remembers a Karl Mills so that must be him. So nice to communicate with you Paul after all these years plus we have a lot in common descended from Jewish refugees. If you wish to remain in contact please email me at [email protected] It is ironical that I live now in Germany...

The surname Mills is familiar but I cannot recall if the first name was Robert. It’s an interesting list to look at and handwritten. There are numbers by names, what significance are they? My name is there in lower sixth science where I was in 1970 until the start of the Autumn Term in September...

Hi Paul, good to hear from you after 50 years! Glad you’re well and like me enjoying a second marriage. Sorry to hear of your father’s passing in Israel. My father died in Birmingham aged 89 in 2015, he came to UK with the kinder transport from Germany in 1939. My mother who is a well-known...

I remember Paul Wolf playing the clarinet in the school orchestra when I played the violin. I seem to remember Paul’s father who spoke with a heavy German accent and was a Jewish refugee from Germany like my father was. I think he was an academic or professor in Birmingham. I also remember Peter...

Sorry Bob Hughes but I sadly don’t remember you doing physics, chemistry and biology A levels with me.

Hi Duncan. I seem to remember you vaguely. I left summer 1971 and was Head Boy of the school 1970-71 with Philip Street & Malcolm Ridout my two deputies. I went on to Birmingham Medical School and in 1976 qualified as a doctor. I've been working continuously as a GP since and now am in private...

I was at GD 1964-71 and was a member of the school orchestra under Cecil Fisher for all those years. I remember well the annual school plays usually Gilbert & Sullivan and the orchestra always played. Lisle Sharp played in the second violins with meand I remember Max Harrison, Leo Olver and...

I am no longer in touch with anyone from GD except for my brother who was 2 years below me and whom I also hardly ever see anymore. i used to have minimal contact with Juggit Sanghera, Stephen Miskin and Barry Smith from my vintage 1964-71 all of whom, like me, went on to become doctors. More...

I meant Peter Gregory!

I was Head Boy of the school 1970-71. My two deputies were Phil Street and Malcolm Ridout. Has anyone any news of them and where they are now? I’ve often thought of them and wondered. other names that stick in my mind are Graham Howe, Mark Williams, Henry Barrel, Clive Fraser, Robert Bissell...

I will always remember David Proctor’s yellow nicotine-stained fingers and the permanent smell of tobacco. I liked him, he was a good teacher and nice person. He was left-handed I recall. He taught me Latin.

I did 1964-71 and yes it was a good school, good all-round education, good after school activities like the school orchestra that I was in throughout my stay and good quality staff some of which were memorable characters. For several years after I left I was a member of the Dixonian Association...

Meant rotund Malcolm Hannay.

It’s interesting to read former pupil’s accounts of past members of staff and their memories of these people who once long time ago featured vividly in our daily lives. Of course most remember Les Summerton and the dinner tickets. I remember from the school orchestra Cecil Fisher conducting and...

Harborne was better for me to get to school because I used to catch the number 11 outer circle bus in Lordswood Road and it went past the school in City Road so ideal.

I remember this cinema now that I see the picture. Yes, I’ve been in there until 1967 when we moved from Quinton to Harborne.