| Date: | 24.12.2003 at 16:28:22 |
| E-mail: | mh001e6066@blueyonder.co.uk |
| Name: | Michelle Green |
| message contents: | I think my dad, Ian Green, started Blackpool Grammer School in this year. He was born in 1941, and you usually start secondary school at the age of 11. Does anyone remember him? I am his daughter, Michelle. Sadly, my dad died nearly 10 years ago. |
| Date: | 24.12.2003 at 15:46:49 |
| E-mail: | stephen.yarwood@btinternet.com |
| Name: | Stephen Yarwood |
| message contents: | Although ex Baines Grammar in Poulton I stumbled on the Collegiate ex pupils Website quite by accident while searching for something else. An archived Guest Book entry from Feb 2002 referred to a band called Isis who emerged from your 6th Form in the mid 70s. I followed the link to the old school mag article from 1975 and blow me if it didn't refer to the two Isis gigs I saw.
The "audience of ten-year-old children in a hut in the wilds of Anchorsholme" was at the Youth Club attached to the local Methodist Church. I ended up at the gig through some vague church connections and the fact that I knew a girl I fancied would be there. I can only recall two song titles in their set of mainly (perhaps entirely) covers, 'Yours is No Disgrace' from one of the early Yes albums, and 'Mockingbird' by Barclay James Harvest. The musicianship on show was excellent on the whole, particularly the guitarist and the bass player, the latter, I was informed was also a cellist so the four stringed instrument was a natural progression. A bit more glamorous too! The vocalist was not quite so impressive, sorry John, apart from a rather weak voice he was reading most of the lyrics off a scruffy bit of paper which didn't look too good. Overall though an enjoyable evening. The Anchorsholme gig would have been late 74, by early 75 I was keeping a daily diary which is a good stimulant for the memory banks. It records that on 25th March Isis supported Jack the Lad at the 6th Form Dance at Tiffany's. Isis had obviously decided to improve their appearance, with varying degrees of success! The keyboard player had some sort of leopard skin jacket and everybody else had made an effort. Guitarist Phil was obviously a football man and Blackpool supporter (like myself), he had his BFC tangerine and white scarf knotted to the belt of his trousers as was the fashion at the time for teenage boys at football matches. The set was as before mainly progrock covers with (I think) a few originals thrown in. After a while I wandered off, probably to get down to some serious drinking as you do when you're that age, but my attention was drawn by an eerie sound rather like a woman wailing. 'The most expensive instrument was John's musical saw' as William Douglass says in the excerpt from the School Mag, and lo and behold this strange object was onstage at Tiffany's!! That's about all I can remember, I sometimes wonder if I'm a sad git really (very likely). Why/how do I remember this sort of thing!!?? Anyway I hope it entertained somebody out there. Stephen Yarwood
Bedford |
| Date: | 23.12.2003 at 06:41:04 |
| E-mail: | duke.hall@btopenworld.com |
| Name: | duke hall 1951 |
| message contents: | duke would like to contact any rugby playing ex-students who played rugby from the feathers to 1st XV 1951-58 under Bob Evanst to Percy Williams |
| Date: | 04.12.2003 at 04:39:23 |
| E-mail: | LrDrf@aol.com |
| Name: | Loretta Anne Linney |
| message contents: | Changed my e-mail address. Not having much luck finding old school pals, starting year 1951. However I did hear from Denise Swift and Jennifer AInsworth. Anybody else out there from 1951 Collegiate |
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