Dear Claudette. What a shock. I found this photograph in my mothers album...in better condition. I am the boy next to Penny Hoy not Alec? I left the school at 11 and went to a boarding school in Bushey, Herts. Best wishes

It's certainly not me in the photograph. Although friends with some like Graham Trimble and Tony Seaman, mainly through family connections etc, I was in the other stream of the same year. I can't for the life of me remember the form teacher's name but I remember she was quite young at the time.

Benfield Primary School, 1951 - 1956 Here are the names of the Girls snd Boys: Sheila Bartlett, Christopher McBrien, Janet Beal, Christopher Watts, Anne Challands, Christopher Welsh, Jane Chisholm, Anthony Dawes, Paula Dawes, David Hobden, Diane Doe, Gary Richardson, Gloria Dyson, Roger Stevens, Lorraine Finlayson, Paul Jones, Francis Fleet, Richard Burgess, Josephine Florey, Martyn Wills, Linda French, Anthony Clarke, Sandra Harmes, John Stevens, Carol Lintott, Stephen Giles, Shirley Masters, Euan Tomkinson, Marjorie Patching, Raymond Fairweather, Iris Rothwell, Peter Abbott, Vanessa Sherwood, Phillip Abbott, Simone Slender, John Todd, Margaret Wells. The staff from this era were, male: Whiting (Head Master), Ellesworthy (deputy), Holden, Gallagher, Needham, Prestly. Female were: Evans, York, Reidle, Belafante.

Chris, yes my brother Richard Burgess was in your class, we used to live in Links Close, Portslade, then 23 Fairfield Gardens, Portslade. We left for Australia in 1955. I live in Seaford, Melbourne and Richard in Adelaide. Very good memories

I am the Anthony Dawes mentioned in Chris Macbrien's list of pupils. I live in Plymouth these days if anyone cares to e-mail me. I would be only to pleased to respond. Best Wishes to you all.

I also was a student at Benfield School. Josephine Florey was a good friend. Mr Needham rode a bike, had a BAD temper and a "gammy' knee. I remember Grayham Dumas, Joyce Gates, Beverly Burton and Mrs Reidel.