SCHOOL DAYS

The school that I attended for all of my school days was Commercial Road Secondary Modern, situated on Spelterworks Road, Sunderland in the County of Durham. The school was split into three 1. Infants  2. Juniors  3. Seniors.

The only mixed part i.e. girls and boys together was the infants. The juniors and the seniors were girls and boys kept apart in their own buildings.  We only ever came together within school  time during Cookery and Dancing.  A very trusting lot was our Education Department.  I suppose one could not blame them really.

The school buildings no longer exist having been demolished and replaced with a modern alternative. A sign of the times I suppose we have to move with the times and try and refrain from living in the past.

Below I have placed three school class group photographs and beneath two of  them I have listed the names of most of my fellow class mates. I owe a big thank you to Ralph Crosby one of my class mates for supplying me with most of the names.

Front Row from left to right 

Leslie South, James Collings, Roderick Hinds, Gordon Wilson, George Metcalfe, George Allen, Ralph Crosby, Jackie Allan and Raymond Baker. 

Middle Row from left to right

Ernie Potts, Donald Ross, Gordon Smith, Donald Mckay,            George Mckay, ----? -----, Tony Moffat, Wilkerson Jobling,              Bryan Tuddenham, John Wi;kinson, Eric Foreman and Jack Knowles

Back Row left to right

 -----?-----, George Marwood, Aubrey Davis, James Passmore, James Reahy, Willie Smith and Alan Horn. 

Back Row left to right 

Gordon Wilson, Ernie Potts, Geoff Lowe, Wilkerson Jobling,      David Goodman, Alan Horn, Leslie South, James Haswell, George Mckay, Alan Ramshaw,

Middle Row left to right

Robert Reed, Ray Dougherty,  Alan Oliver, Jack Knowles,               Eric Foreman, Norman Brown, William Gilbert, John Wilkinson, John Redfern and Tony Moffatt. 

Front Row left to right

Robert Tipling, James Passmore, Ray Baker, George Allen,       Colin Elliott, MR Macully, Alan Bergson, Willie Smith, Ralph Crosby, Eddie Donaldson and Donald Mckay,   Sitting on ground  Tommy Rowell and  Peter Budd.