Intake, 1959

List of the 1959 intake (including some boys who enrolled in subsequent years)

With the school’s admission register long since having been lost or destroyed, this list has been compiled from information obtained from surviving Speech Day programmes, identifying boys on school photographs and from other sources including tapping into the memories of elderly former pupils. There is no surviving or available documentation giving the names of each year’s new intake. According to the school’s log book, the 1959 intake comprised 172 boys which   was the largest in the school’s history at that time and necessitated the cohort being split into five forms – Upper 1, Middle 1A, Middle 1B, Middle 1C and Lower 1. As a member of that intake and for reasons of nostalgia, I have set myself the task of recording the names of as many of the boys as possible. Over the course of the next four and a half years or so, a good number of the boys left the school for one reason or another. The list probably includes over 95 per cent of the boys in that year’s cohort with initials, names and spellings mostly accurate. A relatively small number of boys, whose names are regrettably not included here, may well appear in subsequent class photographs as ‘Unidentified’. Also included are the names of boys who joined the school after this date: these include boys who transferred from other schools and some who moved into the area.

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