I left school a couple of weeks before this article was published. The educational rot certainly set in from the late 60s onwards, and my grammar school was closed in 1970 to become part of a comprehensive, which is now being rebuilt to become a 'college'. The educational standards were never at any point maintained in the new school, and it was a tragedy for all concerned including the teachers. How could that have been an improvement for aspirational working class students? No wonder private establishments, such as Miss Willis's, have taken the lead in recent years.

I'm sorry to say so but she looks remarkably like Michael Winner! Do you think they could be related?

Have you got a 'Death Wish', Neil?

Calm down dears!!

It is Michael Winner's twin sister.

In my child's mind, Miss Willis was always confused with Queen Victoria. I must have become one of her "20 pupils" around the time that this article was published or soon after. I remember nothing of Anthony Willis, and the scheme to accept pupils to age 13 came to nothing.