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Yes. See message on Friends Reunited.

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Got that ... did look on the dating site first... LOL.

What a shame that I didn't know you were there ... 'course wouldn't have recognised you without knowing you were there (if that makes sense), still worked both ways I suppose. Would have been good to reminisce.

You were the one with the brains and an I.Q. that must have bust the scale .. x

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I've just returned from an Old Boys committee meeting. We talked about the staff. Last week we lost Pop Cordingley. I spoke to ken Marsden then and I have learned that Walter 'Willie ' Wain is still alive and kicking somewhere in Barnfield area. Terry and Mrs Jones are staff who are on the Old Boys register. I would like to hear from and of any more. I am always thinking about Latin master John Howe.
I will use this posting to publicise the Old Boys Association - please make contact with me.

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Last address
WALTER WAINE
4 GARFIELD STREET
ACCRINGTON
LANCASHIRE
BB5 2AG

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Great to hear that Ken and Wally Wain are still knocking around. There must be summat about that school that makes for a long life!

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Couldn't have been the school dinners ... maybe all that walking up and down those bloody stairs strengthened the heart and lungs ... ;)

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Shame that EJ always got and still gets a bad press as a teacher. I always thought that as an individual he was good at maths.

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I was told that Alan Butcher (Art) is still alive and living in York, although not in good health. I agree about E J Owen. Can't find any trace of Johnny Howe - I think he went back to teach at Bristol Grammar School where he'd been a pupil.

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Wasn't Alan Butcher the one who used to punish boys by having them copy out massive chunks of "The Listener" long hand? I don't know about Gobbin's math skills; but he sure as hell couldn't control a class.

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I was at the grammar from '50 - '55, left from 5B. Memories, Pug Portno, kicked me out of French (but now live in France), Pop Cordingley who inherited me from Pug, who was so much a gentleman - the coffee table lasted to the mid '80s."Boris" Wignall, County rugby player who introduced the game to the school to the dismay of so many.
? Marsden taught English I think and played cricket for Enfield, ? Slater an English teacher and dramatics who had me play Christy in the Devil's Disciple at the Town Hall.
The socail life in those days - the Melbo, Joe Mort's, Knowlemere street, The Con Club, the Ritz - and for the younger ones (my generation), The Australian and Cattle Market pubs.
I hope I can establsh contact with some of my old contempories, I still have some great memories of those days. Of course that was all before i met my Anne - then it all (almost all) stopped.

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I didn't start till 57, but I know what you are talking about ... except "'Boris Wignall'" .... :confused: Is that Sam Wignall?

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Hi Eric, "Boris" arrived when I was in 3B, he taught Geography and assisted Frank Hartley the Sport's Master - something of a rough diamond

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"Rough diamond" isn't bad ... Jock Bentley tended towards the sociopathic end of the spectrum ... Wignall taught me history and the art of wearing a cap.:D

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Once walking through town with my cap stuffed in my pocket when I heard Sam Wignall's stentorian tones booming out: "Oi, cap, laddie!" Dutifully plonked my cap on my head and carried on, only to be assailed by Sam's bellowing command: "Oi, laddie, now raise your cap when you see a master!" Sam...a true AGS legend.

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I agree: to know him was to .... well, know him. Although there were those who continually ran afoul of him; one that comes to mind as a poor soul often on the receiving end was a lad called Utley (I think his first name was Stephen) ... not a bad lad, but his mere presence seemed to send Sammy ballistic.:eek: