funny how we did not appreciate the chances we were given Alan Sparshott I
remember why?

Patricia Whittington 1958 - 1962 1B,2b,3b,4b then out to work as many were


>From: "sw4work" <indibooks@...>
>Reply-To: Elliott_School@...
>To: Elliott_School@...
>Subject: Re: Friends from Elliott 1966 - 1973
>Date: Sat, 05 May 2007 13:55:03 -0000
>
>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!
>

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