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Portslade Senior School

Class of 1960

By Dave Phillips

At long last I have managed to find a couple of photos of my class at Portslade Senior School but I am not sure of the year, possibly 1959 or 1960. I think that the class photo must have been in the first year at that school and the cricket team photo was year 2. I hope they bring back some memories.

Photo:Back Row L-R David Davidson, John Flake, Rodney Aldridge, Donald Hales, Robert Piercy, Paul West, Geoffrey Parker, Nigel Rickard; Middle Row L-R Martin Townsend, Brian Drew, Alan Jeater, George Hamblin, David Barr, Thomas Lamiman, David Knight, Michael Harding; Front Row L-R David Spicer, Alan Green, Chris Cadby, Christopher Pratt, Mr Bennet (of Fido fame), Donald Peters, Peter Beadle, me.

Back Row L-R David Davidson, John Flake, Rodney Aldridge, Donald Hales, Robert Piercy, Paul West, Geoffrey Parker, Nigel Rickard; Middle Row L-R Martin Townsend, Brian Drew, Alan Jeater, George Hamblin, David Barr, Thomas Lamiman, David Knight, Michael Harding; Front Row L-R David Spicer, Alan Green, Chris Cadby, Christopher Pratt, Mr Bennet (of Fido fame), Donald Peters, Peter Beadle, me.

Photo from the private collection of Dave Phillips

Photo:Back Row L-R Mr Bennet, Keith Miles, Paul Laskey, Charlie Miller, Michael Mitchell, W? Vilic; Front Row L-R Thomas Lammiman, Brian Drew, Rodney Aldridge, Donald Peters, David Knight, Martin Townsend, me

Back Row L-R Mr Bennet, Keith Miles, Paul Laskey, Charlie Miller, Michael Mitchell, W? Vilic; Front Row L-R Thomas Lammiman, Brian Drew, Rodney Aldridge, Donald Peters, David Knight, Martin Townsend, me

Photo from the private collection of Dave Phillips

Added to the site on 4th June 2006

This page was added on 26/06/2006.

Comments:

A few years ago I wandered into the old Portslade secondary school in Mile Oak and, unchallenged, went up to the top landing and there saw a whole line of photos of us old boys - wonder if the pics are still there? Pity if they were chucked away - I was in one of them.

By Paul Edwards (05/06/2006)

The cricket team picture brings back a lot of memories. I used to love the sports, but not too keen on the other lessons. Still, very happy days.

By Paul Laskey (21/06/2006)

This was my class too although I am not in these photos - I do remember Fido! and the Shower Gauntlet! I remember Michael Michell, Pual Lasky, Martin Townsend, Donald Peters, John Flake. But that was 40 odd years ago.

By Chris Edwards (21/06/2006)

Hi Paul Laskey. Quite a good goal keeper if my memory serves me correctly. We had a few good sportsmen in that year: Martin Townsend, Don Peters, David Knight, George Hamblin, John Flake to name but a few. Good days.

By Dave Phillips (13/07/2006)

I never went to the school, but one of the boys in the photo - Robert Piercey - lived in Vale Road a few doors away from me.

By Tony Alderton (11/08/2006)

Read this with interest and wondered where Portslade Secondary School was. Was it the one in the High Street or Chalky Road?

By Tara Malenczk (01/10/2006)

Anyone remember Mr Hunt taking us over to Calais for the day, must have been 1961/2. I remember chaps coming back with lighters and playing cards that were short of numbers in the deck. It was so hot and a very long day. I remember the woodwork teacher getting into trouble about something and the Herring family slowly getting expelled one by one! The boy in our class put a banger in another's pocket. Did anyone else get the new boy introduction of being squashed in the air raid shelters.

By Chris Edwards (11/10/2006)

I remember Mr Hunt. He took us for history I believe and football, up at the then girl's school in Mile Oak along with Mr 'Slipper' Bennett - I still have a job to sit down when I think of him. As for the initiation ceremony, I was in the house represented by yellow. I can't remember the house name, but in the science lab each new pupil had to undergo the electric shock treatment which involved the new 'victim' having to hold two pieces of metal, one in each hand and the teacher spinning a generator to give a mild electric shock. If they did that today, I'm sure the teacher would be locked up in the tower and the key thrown away. This site has given me many a laugh and bought back many memories. Thank you all.

By Brian Higgins (12/10/2006)

The Yellow house was Pevensey, Blue was Lewes. Red, I think, was Bramber, and Green was Arundel. As you can see all castles. And yes, we got the sqashing in the Air Raid Shelter initiation. That was the shelter at the bottom of the steps going down from the top playground (the supposedly peaceful playground) to the lower playground.

By Dave Phillips (22/10/2006)

The boys school was/is at the top of the hill out of Mile Oak. The girls school was in Chalky Road further up the hill. We used to walk up there to play soccer or rugby. We also went over the downs in the annual cross country race - I hated it. The other memory was the frozen or boiled milk (depending on the time of year) left in the top playground and the tuck shop in the lower playground. I also have a very faint memory of a swimming pool that was filled in and made into Mr Bennetts classroom. I had him that year - oh ouch, the fido!

By Chris Edwards - Brisbane, Australia (24/10/2006)

I haven't moved as far away as Chris Edwards, it's about a mile, I now live in Southwick. To Dave Phillips, yes it's me of Beechers Road and I also have the form photo which is on the Friends Reunited website. Dave do you remember that your parents were some of the first to receive ITV, and that on most Mondays we would go back to your place to watch Popeye? Not one of us will ever forget the mass slippering. What you ask for you get in this instance. The building hasn't changed a lot from the outside apart from some oversized logos saying 6th Form College. I believe it was Mr Heasman who had the grin on his face when he gave us the shock treatment.

By Dave Spicer (29/10/2006)

Great to see photos like this on the site - I might even be really brave and post a couple from my days at Benfield. I wondered if my brother might feature in the above photos but he was a bit older than these boys. If anyone reading through these messages does remember him - Stephen Clifford - I would love to hear from you. He went to Benfield too and then Mile Oak (Portslade Secondary) and would have been at the latter about 1954/5 to 1958/9'ish.

By Helen McDiarmid (29/01/2007)