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A bit afore my time, but the buildings and the playing fields look horribly familiar!

There's another here by the way, singing the Skool Song in Latin!

I was convinced you'd be on it Peter! That must have been some sort of torture forcing them out there in the snow!

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I was convinced you'd be on it Peter! That must have been some sort of torture forcing them out there in the snow!

Cheek! I might have been there a few years later, but the sadistic streak was still apparent! OK, just for you I've changed my avatar...

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Cheek! I might have been there a few years later, but the sadistic streak was still apparent! OK, just for you I've changed my avatar...

Hey Peter - have you seen this new book - did you know this chap? Or are you too young!!

http://www.acmretro.com/penni.html

Headlong into Pennilessness [2011] [book]

Young Michael Glover grew up never knowing his father.

Sid Glover didn’t die on the battlefield, but the man who returned from Burma was quite different, in appearance and temperament, from the husband who had left to join the army in 1939. War left Dorothy Glover trusting no one and nothing: banks, foreigners, the family next door and, most of all, her husband (soon to be divorced).

Community rituals like Guy Fawkes Night and Whitsuntide parades, together with the week at Mrs Ansell’s boarding house in Blackpool, were the highlights of his young life as his family scraped a living.

Despite his insular environment, Michael Glover has fond memories of his childhood home, and he developed a strange attachment to that tiny, unremarkable house: the kitchen that was the hub of family life and its ferocious arguments over money; the unheated front room that was only ever used at Christmas; and the outside toilet with its neatly torn strips of the Radio Times attached to an old coat hanger. It was in that house that he first incubated his dreams of becoming a writer. This itself is remarkable. 45 Coningsby Road only ever had one book: a harrowing tale of Sheffield’s disastrous part in WW1 which Michael Glover’s grandfather, domineering Harold, miraculously survived.

Headlong Into Pennilessness takes you through the first nineteen years of his life in Sheffield – the astonishing impact of the sight and the sounds of the young Dylan, the Beatles and Roy Orbison at Sheffield City Hall; his stunned realization that Rolls Royce-driving Freddie Garrity, singer with Freddie and the Dreamers, was sharing an outside toilet in his Fir Vale back yard.

Inspired by his teacher at Firth Park Grammar School English , the story culminates in his winning a scholarship to Cambridge, and on to a life as editor of Mirror Books, award-winning poet, and art critic of the Independent in London.

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No, haven't seen that one Paul, thanks for the heads up! The name is vaguely familiar but I can't place him, difficult to tell from the description how old he would be. I was born in Firvale in 1945 but we left in 1951 when we got a council house at Longley. Looks worth a read though!

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No, haven't seen that one Paul, thanks for the heads up! The name is vaguely familiar but I can't place him, difficult to tell from the description how old he would be. I was born in Firvale in 1945 but we left in 1951 when we got a council house at Longley. Looks worth a read though!

Not bad for a Fir Vale lad!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Glover_%28author%29

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I may be sticking my neck out, but the Grammar schools got some things right.

The old Grammar schools got a lot of things right Bayleaf.

Their main shortcoming seems to be that they only catered for what would these days be called "Gifted & Talented" students (i.e. those that could pass the 11+ exam) and not the general population of 11 to 16 year olds like the Comprehensives have to.

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