Hello Sarah,
How about Penny Cooper for the girl you half remember, who's father
was a well known food expert? I think she lives in America these
days.Is listed on Friends but not yet on our listings.
Edmund
--- In Elliott_School@..., "sw4work" <indibooks@...>
wrote:
>
> I was in 1Z through to 5Z along with Gina Clark who I exchanged a
few
> emails with several years ago....Some other `Z-formers' who I think
> stayed on for 6th Form and who you may have known were Deborah
Prior,
> Eddie Kossovitz (? spelling), Tina Nesbitt, Janet McCarthy and
maybe
> Terry Clark.
>
> Woops, Sorry folks, I think I re-sent Ian's message by mistake.
Gina and I grew up 'along
> the balcony' in the same block of flats. My other neighbour was
Gaynor Bartlett, a couple
> of years older than me, also attended Elliott. The girls you
mention sound familiar, but my
> memory is not brilliant. Names I remember from the 6th form are:
Penny (Clark?) I think
> her father was the radio 4 broadcaster - 'The Food Programme',
Christabel Birkbeck,
> Martin Sharp (also lived in the flats until he moved to Richmond,
I think it was), Bryn
> (Carter?) Dominic (Harris?), Suzzanne ? Lived in Kingston,
Marjorie Clark. Sadly, I don't
> think many people from the Estate made it into the 6th form. It
was a good school - if I
> had been at school nowadays, I probably would have been excluded
before I reached the
> 6th form! When I tell my children we had the options to go Ice
Skating, Horse Riding,
> Canoeing etc. and the school taught Russian, Spanish, French and
German and probably
> more, they are surprised. Education has a different meaning now,
but don't get me started
> on that one!
>