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There is a connection between Oscar Deutsch and GD. Geoff Fletcher's wife Olive was the Personal Assistant to Oscar Deutsch based at first in his offices at the Perry Bar Odeon and later at Quinton. Brian B

Hi David, I remember Geoff Fletcher very well. I was picked by him to sing in the school choir and also at St Martin's in the Bull Ring. I was blessed with a very good treble voice and sang the part of the Archangel Gabriel when we performed Haydn's Creation. The part of the Archangel Raphael...

In the early 1970s I lived in Leamington Spa and one day I was walking through the branch of Rackhams there and saw this man walking towards me and I thought 'I know him, but what is his name?' He stopped and looked at me and said I taught you physics - it was, of course, Les Summerton. It...

Hi Goffy, Your spelling of Mr Enticknap is correct. He taught me at Kingsland Road and I stayed in touch with him when I went to George Dixon Grammar School as he sang in the choir at St Martins in the Bull Ring as I did as well. He was my mentor when I started to ride motorcycles as he was a...

Hi Dave, Did you know the Baker family that lived at 156? Brian B

Hi Penns, I knew Ian Paskin, now sadly no longer with us, and after many years of him nagging me I sold him my Norton 500T trials bike. Brian B

Hi Sylvia, You must have known both my father and grandfather at that time. My father, Jim Bate was the Works Manager at Shelley's (often known as Sonny Jim) as my Grandad, also Jim Bate was the works policeman. Grandad was to be found at the entrance resplendant in his Corps of Commissionaires...

AS some have already said the first Maths teacher was Polly Worthington but for the 5th and 6th forms it was A. H. D. Dutton. My Maths level went downhill with his teaching and I only recovered when I was at Technical College after leaving GD. Brian B

Hi Terry, I was at GD from 1951 to 1958 so the same time as you. Derek Acock had a NSU MAX 250cc but his father had a Vincent Rapide V twin. Lovely machine. I started going on a 250cc Excelsior Talisman twin then progressed to a 350cc Velocette MAC and finally for the last two terms a new 600cc...