Old Boy Memories

11 thoughts on “Old Boy Memories”

1. Re 1961 school photo, I’m third row down from top, eighth in from the left.
   75 this coming Saturday.

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   • Cheers Phil. Nice to hear your still in the game!!

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2. Bill Cannon, same year as me and a few weeks younger, is still around and we are in regular contact.

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   • Marvellous, as I am with Fred Wilson…

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3. Maybe someone remembers an old classmate of mine at Xavs one Brian Morgan from St Anne’s Ancoats? Haven’t heard anything solid about him for years. There was a rumour manmy years back (as yet unsubstantiated) that he had met the daughter of an Anglican bishop and from that relationship there was a child followed shortly thereafter by a marriage. The rumour was that Brian then followed up by becolming an Anglican vicar. All this is unsubstantiated rumour but I wonder if ANYONE else had heard the same rumour or indeed heard the truth?

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   • Not heard that one John. The only Anglican vicar reference I do know about was a classmate Robert Gleason who swopped over to C of E, and became a chaplain in a prison if I recall.

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   • The last I heard of Brian was in the sixth form, when we became good mates. He was an active member of the ‘Brag Trio’ with myself and Tom McGrath, during Mr.Huntingdon’s inspiringLatin lessons. He was going out with a Loreto girl, he met at a school dance. He then became one of the great lost, “ What happened to him/them.”

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     • One of life’s enduring mysteries Paul. As the Scousers night say “Warra bastard eh la?”

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4. Further to the post about the dreaded French O level oral, I remember memorising a most useful phrase for that arduous and very real “no hiding place” event when the inquisitor poses a question about what you may do when on holiday en France.
   Here it is. ” Je ne sais pas a ce moment, mais je verrai quand j’y serai.”

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5. I left at 16 in 1955. Joined the family business
   is anybody from this era reading this?

   Jim McAndrew

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6. Hi Jim- My brother-in -law, John Grisdale, and his younger brother, Jim, were at Xavs around that time. Perhaps you knew them? John, in particular, was especially good at cricket and became president of his local cricket club. Unfortunately both are now deceased.

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