If there's any reader who remembers me, I "found" another old friend and classmate from the late 50s. Inseparable as 2 twins, Dennis (the Menace) Coleman and I spent most of our time together before leaving Sandwich in 1959/60. Dennis joined the Army and I joined the RAF. Last saw him about 63/64 time. Tracked him down to Gozo and last November we reunited for the first time for over 40 years. You can imagine the stories and tales. Over one particularly excellent bottle of wine we tried to remember the names of our school chums from |Mr Chesterfield's "top Class" of the junior school which we all left in the summer of 55. Of course, this was the old SPS near St Mary's Church.
As well as Dennis and I, we thought of Godfrey Laslett, Freddy Saunders, Brian Cornwall, Graham Rogers, Tony Horner, Brian Latham, Keith Rudd, David Knowlton, Derek Smith,Peter Hurst, John May, John Collins, Ted Castle, Ewart Clapson ~ and for the girls: Margaret Miller, Margaret King, Jane Solly, Christine Blake, Jennifer Moss, Janet Barham, Madeline Hayward, Sandra Reason, Maregaret Allen and Christine Kerridge.....and then we just about ran out of ideas. There were 2 classes of us (Mr Chesterfield and Miss Wells were the teachers)so get your thinking caps on; there must be loads more. Who else was there leaving SPS in the Summer of 55? Teacher-wise we thought of Mr Chesterfield, Miss Wells, Mrs Room, Mrs Stringer, Mr Pettitt, Mr Miles and Mr Ford~ any others? And of course Mr Sage was the Headmaster, and Madeline's mother (Mrs Hayward) was the School Secretary. Another name we remembered was Mr Reason (Sandra's dad)was the school Caretaker.
Love the site and still love the town but don't get chance to visit often now. But would love to get more names for this leavers list.
Best wishes to all Old Sandwichians wherever you are throughout the world.
Ian
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