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Originally Posted by Rachel
It turns out that if I were a contestant on Ken Bruce’s popmaster… he would have said, one year out! I left school in 1981 too ( just checked my O level certificates), the last year started in 1980, so maybe you’ll be on my list. Before I start, this is just from memory, is in no particular order, and some of the names may have alternative spellings and if you’re not on the list it doesn’t mean I can’t remember you, there’s several faces in my head that I can’t put names to yet but they’ll come to me…
I’ll do boys first because usually it’s the other way around and there were lots more of them.
Douglass Handiside: David Gray: Andrew Turvey: Mark Keen: Drew Keen: David Gair: Glenn Melvin: Geofrey Rowland: David Smails: Ian Burns: David Gerrard: David Scott: Derek Scot: Michael Charlton: Ian Dalby: Malcolm Heggety: Paul Rickard: Gary Finnigan (a whiz on the trampoline) : Stefan Henshall : Ernest Wigget: Carle Robinson: Paul Bennet: Paul Bisile: Paul Armstrong: Paul Coxford: Paul Manion: Paul Robertson: Graham Atkinson: Leslie Anderson: Anthony Wingfield: Neil Straker: Brian Wallace: Gary Park: Darrel Headley: Simon Mathews: William Jobson ( maybe Johnson): Bret Hamilton: John Moscrop: Paul Spears: Kevin Shanks: Ian Durham: Colin Douglass: Colin Mitchell: Tony Taylor: John Leck? : Hilton Dawson? John Marshal: Robert Gordon: Vincent Robson: Henry Wright: Christopher Strangeways: Michael Marr: Paul Goldstien: Ian Clowe: David Rutter.
Sandra Barclay: Patricia Noble: Linda Smith: Melanie Holman: Nicola Scott: Shirley Martin: Julie Shepard: Diane Johnson: Diane Latto: Donna Cox: Debra Barclay: Julie Wingfield: Julie Lewis : Jane Wilson: Hazel Stewart: Tracey Durey: Tracey Dryden: Tracey Stewart: Maureen Gibb: Sylvia Rutherford: Heather Rutherford: Marion Runciman: Amanda Straker: Anne Fairbairn: Judith Gardener: Lynn Hume: Lynn Handiside: Joyce Barns : Jane Smith: Pepi Jackson: Judith Smails? Lynn Brieley: Karen Douglass: Jane Bamebridge: Julie Watson: Mandy Hewitson: Lynn Edmonson : Jacqueline Russell: Helen? Worth: Me.
All should be or will be 48 before September this year.
90 ish in total… not bad after 31 years! If I can think of any more I’ll add them.
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Bet you can't name the ones you were at junior school with who went to the Dukes and Duchess in 1976 from that year group!! - the last year to do the 11 plus in Amble (George Young's year 4 class at Edwin st, Charlie Turnbull took us the year before and Mrs Dalby yr 2 Dovecote st and Mrs Gair before that) We even had a year at Cross st (ms Hopper?), talk about being mucked around!!