Hi,
I also went to Ilmington Road Boys school. Left in 1961 & was in the same class as Victor Newey.One of the brighter ones in my class & writer of some good verse. Some very funny. Strange how things turn out. I never liked Sam Small & was talking to a friend about the school who never went there but who it turned out lived next door to him when young. Told me he came from Ulster.
Who was the young guy who came about 1959 & took art? Hated PE & those showers with the water being turned hot & cold.
Had to mow the grass with Raymond Ellis for some reason.
One lunch waiting for second sitting at lunch time. Sam Small said no talking. My mother worked as a dinner lady & passed by doing some thing in the staff room. She spoke to me I answered. Got reported & Sammy Small gave me the cane for talking.
Tony Sargent.
I remember you Antony,we were friends at one point, I am Vic Newey,lol, I remember you used to be always on about Russian Railway gauges amongst other things & I remember you as a junior boffin.
I can't remember if you came around our house or it was some other kid, sure it was you & we were mixing up various chemicals & it started to bubble & froth & smoke & you were convinced we had discovered 'heavy water' & we ran out the house expecting a major explosion