Mine was Bedford Street, County Secondary for Boys (factory fodder -as they called us). Failed miserably coz had me Dad's brains -did not find mum's til mid 20's(probably would have nmade no difference)
only famous peop that went there apart from Blunstone the footballer -years ago
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Lovely girls school!
Phil Babb (Rep of Ireland, Liverpool, Sunderland, Benfica, Coventry, Bradford, Millwall...) was in my class. Was considerably more rubbish as a pupil than as a footballer (despite being quite a clever chap, actually.)
Had a thorough grounding in the 3 R's
(Robbing, Rioting, Recidivist offending)
Hated every minute apart from a wonderful 4 minutes with ***** ****** in the Art Cupboard
Now I teach in one.
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Castle was in a public park....very odd!
Loved it but all the studious work went down the pan when it went co-educational and there were some very interesting girlies on the scene.
Only famous old boy I can think of: Tim Wilcox (Boyish looking BBC News 24 reader). He was in the year below me (and head of school, the girlie swat!!)
As well as being one of the one of the highest-performing grammer schools in the country, former pupils included Jacqueline Bissett (many, many years before my time ;-)) and Kate Winslet, who joined when I was in 6th form.
In fact I'm the only person in my company who went to state school, but I got better grades than the lot of them (beams smugly)
and hated every minute of it (
leaving was one of the best days of my life
can't think of anyone famous that went there.