Hi Mike,
Are you the one on photo on post #45 third from the right back row? I posted the picture and am back row 1st on the left. You can see from the later pictures I was one of Mr Jones’s mountaineering/orienteering group and a Carnegie Club member. I remember you but don’t remember you on the orienteering, but it sounded like you never made it. I also remember Kerry Webster (3rd from right front row) and another boy who played chess called Terry Walker (2nd from left front row), it was never my game.
Sadly I have met very few ex pupils despite living in the Birmingham area all my life. I see you became a teacher which is something I have flirted with but never took up on a permanent basis. Have you come across any other classmates?
Regards
Bob
Hi Bob, I looked at the photo and thought it looked a bit like me but I was using my phone and the pic is a bit low quality. I recognise the names and I think some of the faces. Is the original photo any better? I haven't lived in Birmingham since 1968. Kerry and I both went to work as trainee chefs at RS McColls in town then I left to join the RAF as a ground communications engineer. After 12 years in the RAF I became a computer service engineer. Gave that up to go to University in North Wales in the early 90's then taught at a private school until I retired in 2007. I now live on Anglesey, North Wales. Kerry went to work as a chef in his wife's parent's restaurant near Whitby. Later he gave that up to become a postman, the last I heard of him was from his brother some eight years ago. He was still living up North and had bought himself a canal boat.
When Mr Jones invited us to go on an orienteering trip I remember looking forward to it but after standing outside the Carnegie club for an hour or so I decided that was enough for me. The chess club was about as exciting as it got after that. We decided to hold a raffle to help the chess club, the prize being an alarm clock. Everyone was annoyed because I won the clock but it turned out very useful as I always found getting up in the morning difficult and I still do.
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