An Old School Portrait

This painting was a kind of composite affair
 involving hybrids from different children 

There are still a bunch of us still in contact

I guess that makes it a good school

When we were there in the late fifties, it was  different life,

people couldn't afford to buy things like they can now.

We simply didn't expect them and maybe so, they didn't exist.

We played on bomb sites and of my friends

achieved scars from non health and security places.

We made bows and arrows

and played with catapults

I don't know what the girls did

but they were there!

I wouldn't swap that time for anything

It was magic and I was there.

Wendy Richard & Ellie Townsend-Jones

Mrs Leedham with the artist, Raymond Coxon.
She was truly a great head & looked after us all.

A surprising (for me) shot of the cast of "Oliver Twist"
What an amazing play to put on for a primary school!
I am the urchin on the bottom left of the window!

I still remember most of these teachers
Front~ Mrs Burke, Miss Harper, Mrs Leedham, Mrs Renshaw.
Back~ Mr Greenwood, Mrs Hoddell. Mrs Braide. Mr Fletcher

Where we used to play.