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I found this photo on the website Historic-Images - Accrington

It is titled Accrington Grammar School old boys but it looks like schoolboys to me, though of different ages, not all of one school year.

Can't suggest a date and it looks as though it might have been taken just outside the school. There is a teacher on there some of you might recogise.

Hope it's of interest to some Accywebbers...

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Our member, Bob Dobson, organises the Accy Grammar old boy reunions, so I am sure he will post when he sees it.

It find it strange that they are not in uniform - rules were strict - the cap was the most loathed item.

I recall Bob wore his so far back on his head that it looked ready to drop off at any moment (maybe it was glued there with Brylcreem) :D

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Think its about 60/61? if the tall lad back row right end is B.W.? Can't remember if he went G.S.?:confused:

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I'm sure it's AGS 'playground'(all tarmac), I have a school photo taken in the same place with those houses behind.Tremellon Street?
Puzzled why they're dressed like that- we didn't have 'wear anything days',death was the only option if you went dressed like that!
Wearing your hat as far back as you could was the only form of rebellion we dare try-it met the rules but cocked a snoot at the same time.

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Actually, they are in uniform.Think at one time they were allowed grey or black jackets. That 'photo is on here somewhere, with that explanation.

Think also, is earlier than the 60's.

Who is B.W., Cashy ?

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I'm sure that shot was on the AGSOB site at one time and it was described as late 1940's. Can't find it now though. Think it's Lister Street in the background, Gordon. Certainly, the uniform regulations seem to have been abandoned - maybe they had special dispensation because of rationing etc.

During my time at the school, Ben enforced uniform rules with an iron hand...except towards the end of his regime, when he seemed to get a bit demob happy. There's one full school picture from April 1967, just before he retired, where I'm proud to say I'm not wearing one single item of school uniform! ;)

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I left in 59 and you certainly couldn't dress like that then-grey jackets, no tie!!
Sam Wignall would have worn a cane out on that sloppy lot.

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The person who really laid down the law on uniform regulations was Ben's successor - Ralph Bailey who inspected every last detail of your appearance and dealt with offenders in a brisk fashion! The number of arguments I had with him about the length of my sideburns!

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Third from end back right, looks like R.M.? Both the 2 i think were in me class at St Johns, Yet another the late Brian Bishop aint on the photo?:confused:

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Looks like a young". Big Jim Hanrahan" at the back . Before my time at Accy Grammar

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cashman, who were RM and BW? That might help us place the year-Bob Dobson will probably know.

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Must be pre-1954-ish. Can't be 60's, as the uniforms/non-uniforms and hair are all wrong, can't be mid late-50's, as there are no Elvis quiffs. I'll take a guess at 1948!

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That's before the era of me and Bob - we need members here to identify their fathers!

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Definitely Big Jim Hanrahan.

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Definitely after my time 1941-1945 !!!!!!

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If it was those 2,Gordon i said the year i thought. Though could be early as 59, But not before that, if it is em. I never name people,if i aint sure if they would mind.

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How the hell da ya know about Grammar School thought your school was approved:rolleyes:;):D

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I was there 1950-1957 and don't recognize anyone except the teacher Jim Hanrahan and he looks young,so my estimate is 1945-1947.

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If this works(???) this is between late 58 up to summer 59 . Sixth form AGS.
Recognise any of them? Didn't we look smart in our hated uniforms? Wouldn't dress like that on Saturday night.

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Ya Gordon all suited and booted there mate:D

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I recognise two on that photo - 2nd and 3rd from left of the front row standing are Ian and Peter.(2 Ossy lads)

Peter was a dish! I do know his last name but don't put it here... B*t**r
I sometimes wonder what happened to him.

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Hell that were hard to suss out Margaret:D

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I'm surprised you don't recognise me, Margaret,I spent enough lunchtimes leering through the High School fence!
One or two more Ossy boys on there as well.

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The lad on the back row far right is a familiar face but I can't put a name to it.
Which is you Gordon?

PS - me at sweet sixteen - i don't have funny earlobes - white plastic earrings

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Far left hand side of picture, back row,Margaret.
Good photo of you, don't recognise you but if you have one dressed in your rounders outfit I just might remember!
Back to susies picture, Jim Proctor says after 1945. I wonder if during and just after the war you didn't need/couldn't get school uniforms?
We need Bob!

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Think Cashy's estimate of the year is about right, I vaguely recognise one of the boys and he would have been at AGS about then.

There seems to be a mix of ages in the photo - I wonder if they had been away from school on a trip and hence were allowed to wear mufti?

The teacher however appears to be wearing a gown. What was his subject - that might give us a clue.

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Big Jim taught Latin

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So they wouldn't have been on a sports jolly then... Hadrian's Wall more like :o:p

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Have sent a message via Friends Utd, to one of the guys who i think it is, Hopefully he will have a sneck when/if he sees it.

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[QUOTE=Wynonie Harris;972424]I'm sure that shot was on the AGSOB site at one time and it was described as late 1940's. Can't find it now though. Think it's Lister Street in the background, Gordon. Certainly, the uniform regulations seem to have been abandoned - maybe they had special dispensation because of rationing etc.

During my time at the school, Ben enforced uniform rules with an iron hand...except towards the end of his regime, when he seemed to get a bit demob happy. There's one full school picture from April 1967, just before he retired, where I'm proud to say I'm not wearing one single item of school uniform! ;)[/QUOTE

Here is the photo. I will let you own up to which one is you, Steve!

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This is me, centre of the photo, age 13.

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Cheers, Michael. Top row, seventh from left, black tie, hornrimmed glasses, stupid grin! ;)

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Susie may be right-school uniform generally even in 1967,so were they pictured before or after a trip? The open necked shirts with big collars should give a clue, I'm guessing the sixties.Garinda is the fashion guru, perhaps he can date it?

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Hair too short for 1960's, even under Ben's draconian regime and jacket styles all wrong...and if Big Jim looked like that in the '60's, he must have discovered the exilir of eternal youth! 1940's, believe me!

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It's harder to date mens'/boys' clothes, as they don't change in style, as often as womens'.

Going off the shirt collars, and haircuts, I'd hazard a guess at between 1948-52.

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I reckon pre-1950 Don't actually remember any class photographs being taken, only the panoramic whole school ones.
There was definitely only one colour blazer in the period '50-'55 - black with red piping

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My broadband has been down for a couplew of weeks, so I have not looked at Accyweb. I've missed this great thread./
The first photo was taken end of term 1949 - Big Jim Hanrahan's class with Lister St ijhn the background. This was the last year before the new uniform was introduced. I think that a letter 'A' can be detected on one lad's jacket.
The other photo, with Gordon Booth top left is 1959. Colin Sellers (RIP) is back top right. Peter Butler is centreish. I cannot trace him but think he may live in Bury area.
At the Old Boys events now, the president wears a prefect's cap from this period, and last year's president wears a cap as worn then by everyone else. I cannot help with the 1967 photo. Not wearing a cap brought a detention.

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One year out!

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What at Accrington Grammar School?

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Yes. Your brother is in the full 1967 photograph.

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I widened my goal, to '48 - '52.

So I could boot it right into the corner of the net.

:D

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You bin listening to Ken Bruce, Wynonie ? :D x

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Pardon my ignorance, Kate, but who's Ken Bruce?

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Hahaha, Wynonie. Ken Bruce is a Radio 2 presenter and runs this pop quiz. Usually, there is a question whereby he asks the contestants what year were these tunes in the charts.

It's amazing how many are just out by a year and Ken says this: "One Year Out !" Become quite a catchphrase.

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Right, cheers, Kate, thought perhaps he was an AGS Old Boy!

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Could Be Steve Bruce's brother Wyn:rolleyes::D

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http://www.accringtonweb.com/forum/a...967_7_of_8.jpgOY LADDIES........wheres your caps?

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Good photo, tbs, any idea what year? The hair styles should give a clue, mid sixties?

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I thought late 50s?:confused:

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No, Cashy .. I have '53 and '57 on file .. neither of those. Would be at the earliest '61.

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I can't help - after my time.I'll go for 61., It would help if we could see the staff. We left Blackburn Rd in 68.

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Some of the styles remind me of the 'Beatle cut', cashman, that's why I think 60's. If you look at the photo I posted which was 58/59, there's no-one with that style, in fact I think we'd have died before we had a hair cut like that-a sort of 'basin cut', reminds me of the 40's when we couldn't afford the barbers.

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It's 1967 - see post 30

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Well spotted susie, I hadn't realised it was the same photo!

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Good job I have a photographic memory!

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It's April, 1967 to be precise. I'm top row, seventh from left with horned rimmed specs and cheesy grin...and who do we have top row, third from right? Why, it's none other than Councillor Peter Britcliffe!

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Hastily checks haircut of boy on top row, seventh from left!
No basin cut. Thank heavens.

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I didn't recognise anyone.
I was 25 in 1967 and hadn't developed a taste for toyboys;)

I did notice that boy you say was PB - just thought he looked a bit of a bully.

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Photo 5

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Photo 6

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Photo 8

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Photo 7 has already been uploaded, so all 8 photos together make up the complete April 1967 school photo.

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I am in photo 5. See post 31 for a close-up.

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Kestrelx's brother is in one of these photos. I won't point him out though unless K wants me to.

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2 years after I left

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Katex, could you post the '53 and '57 photos please? It would be interesting to see who we recognise and Bob would probably love to add them to his collection.


So, MargaretR, how old were you when you did 'developed a taste for toyboys'?