Here are some unidentified pictures. I have nuked by accident the original emails that accompanied these images. You can just click on the small pictures and it will immediately come up to the right size - might take a few seconds depending on your gear and the linespeed. If you can recognize what these are and who is on them, please let me know and I will transfer them accordingly to the Main Gallery. Some of them are fairly obvious, but I'd like to know who sent them to me and anymore information. Images Nos 3, 9, 12 show the programme cover, programme details and entry ticket for the closing ceremony in 1985, attended by supplied by Tony Lawrence (1953-60) ... thanks Tony. 1 Bill Thomas writes : "We had just beaten St.Mary's O.B. 3-1 to gain promotion to the 1st.Div. of the I ZINGARI League, the first time in the history of the O.Bs. Back row Dave Clarke( ? ), Pete Bellringer( ? ), Paddy Radcliffe(55/62), Mike Cooper(57/63), John Cass(Dec'd), Dave Nicholls( ? ), Alan Rowan(53/58). Front row Steve Jacks(58/65), Eric Hill(53/58), Bill Thomas, Capt(45/50), Ken Brown(49/54),J im Devine( ? ). This gem was sent to me by Ken Ashcroft and refers to the next image .... Scene: Chemistry room next to the Prefects' lair. Warm day in March, 1956 - afternoon sun beaming on Noel Howard, seated at the front bench. The 16-year-old Ashcroft a few feet away, Mike Norris further to the right. Onlookers unidentified, but about half a dozen of 6ASc, in various parts of the room. "Loose lips sink ships!" Chatting desultorily with Mike was interrupted by the arrival of The Baz, who walked behind me, and sat next to Noel. I resorted to daydreaming, probably as a result of the weekly trip to the newsagents at the foot of Leece Street to drool over the "Health and Efficiency" magazine display. Long conversation ensued between Noel and The Baz. Suddenly the Baz turned and glared at me, "Haven't you got any work to do ? " I quipped back, "Well, haven't you ? " ... "What do you mean by that ? ", he snapped. It was as though I had become two people, one a babbling fool, the other recoiling in horror as the fool enmeshed himself further, causing The Baz's jaw to gape wider and wider. "Well, you're sitting up here chatting away to us, instead of being down in your office. Don't you worry that some kind of inspector is going to come in and find that you're not doing your job, and give you the sack ? " My fate sealed in 15 seconds !! Speechless, The Baz got up and left. Immediate remonstrations from the rest of the onlookers, most of them starting with "What the ……… ? ". As the true impact of what I had done slowly dawned on me, I jumped up in pursuit - perhaps he'd gone round the corner to the library. Opening the door, I was petrified by his angry glare from the top of the steps opposite. He'd obviously been into the Lab., to ask a few questions of Nicky. He walked down the five wooden steps till his eyes were level with mine. "I hear that you wish to become a teacher" "Yes, sir." "So you will want to go the University ? " "Yes, sir" "Well, don't come and ask me to write a letter of reference !" With that, he swirled to his left, and all I saw then were the flying sleeves of his gown as he went downstairs. No need to draw a veil over the next two days, I can't remember much of it anyway - I sought advice from Bilge, Nicky, Squinty, Pinhead, and finally Dusty. Took pen in hand, and wrote down their collected wisdom on some nice blue Basildon Bond. The following morning, was summoned to the Office. The Baz had my letter in one hand, his "Ipcress File" glasses in the other. Gave me the laser-beam glare. "I have here a letter offering me your apologies" "Yes sir." "Hrrrumph, I accept". With a flick of his finger towards the door, he dismissed me. This comprises the entire conversation which I had with him in seven years at the school. If you want to know the sequel, look at the image below, written one month later. You all know what the rest of the page looked like ! 2 3
4 Photo supplied by Geoff Southern, LVD 1957, Mersey Road Back Row left to right:- Roger Allman, Dave Hemes, Geoff Southern, ? Clements, Rodney Ellis, David
5 This is one of Bill Leece's pictures, showing the 1968/9 production of John Osborne's Luther. The left to right is: Les Abbie (later joint head boy 1970/71), Eric Griffiths, unknown, Reg Williams, unknown, William Leece, unknown. The photographer, was probably the late Johnny Kirwan. 6
11 Wally Owen sent this below .... Bob Keating (CDT), John Cooke (Geog), Terry Dickinson, (Science), George Button (Groundsman), Eric Higgins (History), Bill Robinson (Maths), Unknown Student ? , Roger Walker (Geog), John McCormack (Biology)
12 14 Geoff Southern provided this photo at Lime Street Station on the 4th April 1959 prior Left to Right:- Graham Baker, Geoff Southern, Joe Atherton, Ian Taylor, Rodney Ellis As a matter of pure coincidence, I used to go mountaineering with Pete Baddams in the late 1960s in the Lake District ... so I (Snellie) was overjoyed to meet him again on Friday 2nd March, 2001 at the Liobians' Dinner at Anfield.
This photo (kindly donated by Iain Taylor), was taken 16 Feb. 1960 in Room 10 ? by Keith Berman, then of
17 Rutland Ave., Liverpool 17 and more recently apparently of New York - so rumour has it - and to whom all royalties should be sent - note neg.
# 3221 ! This piece
of Nova Scotian humour escapes me. Value of a moosehead maybe or a lumberjack
for the night ? I guess only Iain Taylor knows the answer. 16 Graham Thomas provided this photo of a small part of the audience during the Institute's appearance (or one of them) on the 'Top of the Form' quiz show (filmed in the school hall - the picture shows part of the balcony) around 1965/1966 ... Graham Thomas at the front on the right ... leftwards on the two front rows are (John ? ) Hesketh, Kenny Williams and (first name ? ) Taylor. 17 18 19 20 21 Just send a message to ajsnelson@optusnet.com.au and let me know whatever you can about these images. | |||||||||
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