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The web page for the 1958 intake
of Students to Washington Grammar-Technical school
(plus the years before and after,
to get some even more(!) famous people in)
In 1958
The "new" school opened. Two hundred and eight eleven-year-olds had
their first taste of "senior" school. Were
you one of them?
Click here to link to Audrey Fletcher's memorial page to the late Andy Dennis.
Gary "Baldi" Dodds sent me a new Email address recently ...but I've lost it! Sorry - can you resend it? - OK, thanks Gary!
...and Gavin Kitching has written some novels and plays. Have a look on www.gavinkitching.com
What do you remember about the Spout Lane years? ...and what have you all done since then? If you've got any information or images to add to this site, contact me here. or here ... or here
This year is 2008 - fifty years after we started at Washington.
What about a 50 year reunion? Anyone interested?
Click here
to see the staff
(in
1960, scanned from a heavily defaced picture in the school magazine)...
...
here for the choir 
(in
the 1963 magazine, complements of the Sunderland Echo)
...here for the 1964 school photo (2Mb)
... here for some old photographs that Pete Crawford found. Recognise any faces that we haven't identified?
and here for memories of the times (send in yours!).
Links:
Mark Thompson (now in Sydney) had a great site for all ex-Washingtonians
at http://www.washingtonschool.net
but
the site hasn't been available for a while.
and Audrey Hall (now Audrey Fletcher, and another Aussie migrant) has
a Washington site at http://www.geocities.com/pictorialwashingtonuk
Find everything (including this site!)at http://www.explore-united-kingdom.com
Did
you start in 1957.... 
....with Howard Kendall, Christine Arrowsmith and Bryan
Ferry (who
got 9 "O" levels, so he could have got a proper job!)?
Click here
for
the complete list of your year (from the 'O' level results in the 1963
school magazine) plus photos and information.
Did
you start in 1958? For memories of our year
click
here for the list of starters from the Durham
Chronicle (thanks to Ronnie Barron via Jane Cullen (Tunstall)
and George Downes) and all the notes and photos from
individual 1958 "baby boomers".
Did
you start in 1959? Click here
for the complete list (courtesy of Andy Dennis and the 1964 school magazine)
plus some photos and information from your year.
The
Air Training Corps was popular with Washington Baby Boomers, and many went
on to a career in the RAF. Here are Gary Dodds, Ian McCulloch, Bob
Harle, George Downes and Frank Dixon. These photographs are taken
from a 111 (Sunderland) squadron photograph taken at RAF Kinloss.
Click here
to
see more, including the full squadron photograph (360Kb).
See if you can identify all the Baby Boomers who were there.
Drama
Many Baby Boomers were involved in Amateur Dramatics
during their time at Washington, and some of them made the mistake of being
photographed doing it. Here are a collection of images (thanks to
Gordon Fulton and Andy Dennis) including Bryan Ferry as Malvolio in Twelfth
Night....
...and the entire cast of the Scottish Play. click
Here to see them.
I hope you enjoy these pages. Please send more notes and photographs!