Attached is a photo of my Form, U4G, at Maidstone Grammar School in 1955. Is it worth putting this on the website to see if it gets any response from any of them? I’ve listed the surnames here, and I know they are right as I wrote them on the back of the photo at the time!!

Back Row L-R: Hickmott, Capon, Cosgrove, Carter Moore, Duncan, Barrett

Next Row L-R: Swaffer, Comfort, Fuller, Reay, Marchant, Bowden, Craven

Next Row L-R: Stevens, Snell, Bass, BWP Form Master, Smith, Lindsay, Van Bergan

Front Row L-R: Barclay, Ashby, Hatcher, Rose, Brookes, Palmer.

Well they do look a motley crew Doug. Lets see if any of them have seen the site.

John Dunk

Maidstone I remember it well: I was amazed to see the MGS picture of U4G in 1955. This was two years before I started there but I know some of the names and faces and was very pleased to see BW Page who I had as a French Teacher during several of the years I was at the school. He must have been a good teacher because I can still manage to converse on the other side of the channel 50 years later. He had a terrific sense of humour and was very much liked by the boys. He once told us how, on his way to school on a very cold morning, he was crossing Mote Park from Bearsted, where he lived, on his bike. The lake was well frozen so he thought he would take a short-cut across it, however, he hadn't got far when he heard the ice cracking so he had to turn and race back to the bank before he went in. SACRE BLEU!

Barry Newman

Country: New Zealand Maidstone I remember it well: Nom de chien; Fido! thanks to Spike M.

Alan Freeman

Maidstone I remember it well: I was in U4A and remember both the Craven twins. Also Alex Hatcher who lived in Queen Anne Road. I lived in Albion Place at the time.I can remember also visiting Doug Lindsay's home at a farm on Sutton Road and also the shop in Brewer Street where I can remember watching a black and white TV in the living room behind the shop.

When I left MGS I worked in W.H.Smith in the High Street, then for Legal and General in Mill Street. After that I worked for William Laurence by the Cannon back in the High Street and was a retained fire fighter at the Fire Station in Market Buildings. I remember the Foster Clarke warehouse fire one of the first big fires I went to. During this time I drove a newspaper van for The Evening Standard office in Rose Yard behind the Pub.

Doug Lindsay

Maidstone I remember it well: RE MG Page. At last!!!! A reaction from the MGS photo I posted ages ago. Loved the story about BWP's cycle ride to near disaster in Mote Park!! I think we nicknamed him 'Slim' ?? Does anyone recall? Amazingly also Alan Freeman responded!! Once a great friend of mine in our early days at school in fact I still have a Ian Allan Maidstone & District ABC with Alan Freeman's name on from the days we were transport spotters. We were members of the Railway Club at school as well. I think I must have swapped something for the M&D book (probably a couple of thumbmarked Spick'n' Spans!!!!) I recall we used to visit Harry Smiths Furniture Store in King St after school mainly to meet the girls from the Technical School just up the road near to where Alan lived in Albion Place!

Alan Freeman Maidstone I remember it well: Great to read Dougs new bit on MGS page. Doug if you would like to contact me on alanafreeman@aol.com I would love to hear from you. Do you rember going to Ashford Railway Works with the School Railway Club? I remember coming to your home at Bicknor Farm Dairies? (is that right) on the Sutton Valence Road. Where was Harry Smiths Furniture shop I cannot remember that although the name rings a bell?