1961

Dennis Appleby after a working in insurance in Sheffield, and somewhere along the way setting up and sell off a company, this guy  sold his house in Chesterfield along with most of his furniture, retired and went to live in Malta (Summer 2004). He has just moved from St. Paul's Bay to Msida on the quite side of the island, after one of the wetest and coldest winters (2004/5) anyone in Malta can remember.  

Richard Ross Harper, after doing architecture at Aston, moved down to London;  firstly Kew and now Walton. He's still an architect and working with a very posh company near Sloan Square and gets to fly around in private jets - the client's not his. He has two daughters and now lives with a stunning German lady.

Roy Marsh:
I just stumbled across the site, and feel moved by the contributions of Mick Yates, and  the one on Somekh, to add something.
Inspired by Ezra's teaching, I wanted in 1968 to go further in physics but couldn't handle the maths.  As Ezra used to say of some of us when the (poorish) results of our exams emerged, "Boys, it pains me to say it, but some of you are drugging your feet already".  I'm jealous of anybody with a book written by Ezra.  Had no idea such a thing existed.  So I did materials science instead, enjoyed it and became a patent attorney (1979 qualified).  Best profession in all the world.  And a grounding in metal physics allows one to cope with the many technologies that clients work with.  My "speciality" for some years has been medical devices like "keyhole" surgical instruments, and stents for keeping bodily lumens open.  A special privilege is to see how these inventions really do keep people alive, healthy and active and sooner out of hospital.  Munich is where the European Patent Office performs, so that's where I have been since 1991.  My firm (www.hoffmanneitle.com)is German and 110 years old but now has 6 British Chartered Patent Attorneys.  Believe me, it takes some doing to get German and English legal prctitioners to appreciate the merits of the other's legal system, but we are getting there. This has been a harmonised profession, with the same exam papers for all Europe, since 1981.
As to the "Prefects 1969" photos, the only ?? member I can definitely identify is Smith (Michael perhaps) son of a maths teacher, standing immediately left of Rob Bugg.  On the back row, from the left hand end, I offer: Geoff Painter, Sanders, ??, Bauer, Souster... I remain in touch with Phil Cheesewright and Graham (Hattie) Jackson.  Phil lives in Tamworth and Graham in Chester.  Graham is a leading figure in the (increasingly successful) business exploitation of the former, now privatised,  "Laboratory of the Government Chemist"...LGC... (See a youthful looking Hattie pictured in their Annual Report, p18 Ed. Also see a picture of Roy at work)

Mick Yates
Mick lives in  Doynton near Bristol.
After Burton, I was at Leeds University, which I left to join Procter & Gamble in Newcastle in 1972. I was with P&G for a surprisingly long 23 years. I remarried with Ingrid in Holland, and we lived all over Europe, the USA, and Asia. My last job was Vice President for Asia Pacific in Japan. In 1995 I left to take some "time off", but soon was tempted to take an assignment as Company Group Chairman for Johnson and Johnson in Singapore, in 1996.

Mid 2001, we decided to move away from Corporate to strike out alone, once again. We moved to the UK after 20 years away, although Ingrid has never lived here - and neither had 4 of our children.  We live near Bath. Ingrid and I have 6 children (ages 23 to 10), and a grandson - and a range of horses, dogs, cats, birds, rabbits etc .....  Currently I'm a director of a few companies in the UK and Australia, and run www.leader-values.com, a popular web site on leadership and innovation. With some ex-colleagues, we are now starting a new Leadership / Innovation business, called Visionary Thinking which works on global branding and multinational organization.  Ingrid and I are also very involved with Save the Children, especially in Cambodia.  Anyway, hope this helps.  It would be good to be back in touch with old friends.  Best regards,  mick yates  mick@yatesweb.com  http://www.leader-values.com  http://www.visionarythinking.co.uk  http://www.yatesweb.com 

Phillip Woodgate
Firstly, thanks for the invitation to the dinner. Sorry for not answering but I don't use my emails very often so I saw it the same day as I picked up the photos! To be honest I would have been pushed to put names to faces after all this time - 35 years since A Levels! I have been living and working in north Kent for 18 years now, and as all of my immediate family no longer lives in the Burton area, visits are rare. For the record and hopefully your interest, here is a potted history.....

Duncan Bradley:
Since leaving BGS I studied for 3 years at Birmingham School of Music, and for a further year at Reading University for my teaching certificate.  After teaching for a term (sadly not long enough) at the Girls' High School in Burton, I moved to Salisbury.  I taught for 2 years (Music) at a Sec. Mod school near Salisbury, then moved to a middle school in Southampton as Head of Music.  I was there for 2 years.  Then in Jan 1977, I began teaching music in a residential special school for emotionally disturbed adolescent boys, most of whom had a criminal record, and two years later, I moved to where I am now, as Director of Music at The Gregg School in Southampton.  I now teach both Music and French (!!) to GCSE level, direct a choir, wind band, chamber orchestra and also direct the music for the school's annual music production.  

Qualificationwise, I hold the degree of GBSM and the diplomas of ABSM (General Musicianship) and ABSM (Organ) as well as the Cert.Ed. I was married in 1973 to Wendy, and I have 2 children.  Jonathan holds a first class honours Bachelor of Nursing degree from Southampton, and Helen holds a first class honours BA degree from Christ Church Univ. College, Canterbury. Organwise, I was Organist at Beaulieu Abbey from 1973 to 1976 and Boldre Church from 1976 to 1982 during which time I did some TV work with the late Dick Emery ("Legacy of Murder" episode 2).  Nowadays, I have a great interest in military music. 

In 1987, I was hoping for a change of direction in life and tried (unsuccessfully) to be trained for ordination into the Anglican Priesthood. I often wonder if I was not meant for that because shortly after, my daughter underwent surgery on both legs, and in 1991, I lost my father. Perhaps my vocation is in my music!!!!

Tom Casey
Following school, and a year in a steel works, I did a tour – Imperial (Physics), Goldsmiths’ (PGTC which I failed) and Manchester (Science & Technology Policy which I completed, but idealistically refused to hand in the thesis). To escape this cycle of waste, I went to be a hippie in Wales, but also to see if I had anything to say (i.e. become a writer) – I hadn’t - and started to spend too much time boozing to make up for the lack of talent – and the misery of Welsh winter's rains. I then spent two years supply teaching around Birmingham– term on, lots of money - term off, spend the money. Went to explore my ancestral roots in Ireland, but hated the Catholic ethos of the time – and still do, and went to live in Paris (1977). Taught English for a couple of years, realised I was getting old (30) and going nowhere. Also realised that I was still interested in science as a cultural, social, economic pursuit (still the influence of Ezra), went to the Sorbonne to sort out my French, and then Paris-Dauphine to sort out my economics.

In terms of work, I became respectable and went into the OECD, then on, during the mid and late 80s, to work in Government and universities in Ireland. In 1990, a group of us set up a small consultancy. I now work mostly on science / technology / education policy for international organisations and the Irish Government - and even read Nature every week, the way I used to read The Eagle. But I am still uneasy about what I should be doing. Along the way, I have cohabited, wed and procreated, - been occasionally saintly and often, luckily, a sinner - tho’ with absolutely no intention of becoming a St. Agustin or John Donne in my older age. Yet as a devout atheist, I go - somewhat irregularly - to Quaker Sunday Meeting. And from the Quaker connection, I developed a deep interest in the explosion of free-thinking in mid-C17^th England and now invest spare cash in a burgeoning collection of C 17^th books and pamphlets – my “hobby”. Weird life – ½ wonderful, ½ heartbreaking misery – well, so far....

David L'Oste-Brown Scoutref@aol.com
I am living in deepest Gloucestershire (and have been since ''75) although one of my sons (28) is presently bumming around Australia on a 12 month jolly! Would love to join you for the Annual Dinner but I am taking thirty 15-year-olds on a practice Duke of Edinburgh Bronze award expedition in the Forest of Dean this weekend and next weekend taking a dozen Scouts on a mountaineering trip to Snowdonia.

Jobwise, I fell into farming when I dropped out of Uni in '71, but went back to retrain as a teacher in '95 & '96. I now teach maths at a comprehensive school in Gloucester and am taking up the post of Head of House next term.I have four kids -  Michelle, 31, Veterinary Surgeon,  Judith, 29, Chartered Accountant,    James, 28, Geological Oceanographer (and beach-bum), Oliver, 18, Musician off to Uni soon. My wife Jane (nee Eyre, who you may recall from Burton High School) and I split up four years ago after 27 years. I have a "girlfriend", but am more or less free to do as I like!!! Lots of hillwalking, travelling and drinking.

Paul White
Paul studied Applied Chemistry at Bradford. He is now Duncan Bradley's local pharmacist in Southampton. His address is below.