Famous Alumni

16 watchers

Prev
1
2
3
4
5
Next
Last

fetcheveryone Mar 2020 1:09pm, 3 Mar 2020 23,454 posts	0 fetcheveryone John Dawes, Neil Kinnock and Simon Weston.
Mazlin Mar 2020 1:10pm, 3 Mar 2020 8,017 posts	0 Mazlin I don’t know, WS, I don’t think I ever opened that textbook other than to write my name in the label at the front.
McGoohan Mar 2020 1:11pm, 3 Mar 2020 43,654 posts	0 McGoohan It's now an 'academy' whatever one of those is and was a grammar school before I got to it. Here's what wikipedia says though. I knew about JL Carr and Henry Moore Bombardier Craig Hopson, of the 40th Regiment Royal Artillery, killed in Afghanistan on 25 July 2009 whilst travelling in a Jackal (MWMIK) Tim Bresnan, English and Yorkshire Cricket player from 1995–2001 Colson Smith (actor) Nigel Beard, Labour MP for Bexleyheath and Crayford from 1997–2005 J.L. Carr, school teacher, novelist and publisher, from about 1925-1930 John Durham, Ambassador to Mongolia from 1997–99 Henry Moore OM CH, sculptor Alan Rhodes, rugby league footballer who played in the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, and coached in the 1980s Denzil Webster, cricketer of the 1940s through to the 1970s, and rugby union, and professional rugby league footballer who played in the 1950s
Wriggling Snake Mar 2020 1:16pm, 3 Mar 2020 25,697 posts	0 Wriggling Snake Bressers! Excellent. Yes, mine was a grammar school, then comp, now an Academy (again whatever that is)
Wriggling Snake Mar 2020 1:17pm, 3 Mar 2020 25,698 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I reckon Harold Wilson is winning!
McGoohan Mar 2020 1:20pm, 3 Mar 2020 43,655 posts	0 McGoohan Someone will be along in a min who went to Eton or Harrow and they'll be able to name a dozen prime ministers and presidents.
Badger Mar 2020 1:21pm, 3 Mar 2020 11,983 posts	0 Badger This 24 carat nutter: en.wikipedia.org
Wriggling Snake Mar 2020 1:22pm, 3 Mar 2020 25,699 posts	0 Wriggling Snake I will have 5p that says nobody on here went to Eton or Harrow (i nearly did, geographically speaking)
rf_fozzy Mar 2020 1:22pm, 3 Mar 2020 9,599 posts	0 rf_fozzy Helen Sharman went to my primary school. She came in and did a talk either before or after going up in the Soyuz
Oranj Mar 2020 1:24pm, 3 Mar 2020 1,909 posts	0 Oranj Grant Shapps (although Sir Stanley Rous did a few years as "assistant master (sports)" )