The Four Musketeers, If you attended NHS in the 1950s, you may remember us: Parker, Pooley, Terry and Winfield. As an experiment, the School decided to move the four of us from the Prep School directly to the Third Form, 3L, thus jumping an entire year. You can see us in the photograph of Mr Horner’s 1A1 class in 1955 – the last year the four of us were together.
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hy did the School do it? After so long, our memories are dim and those who knew the answer have sadly passed, but we heard that the principal motive was to get us ahead of “The Bulge,” because we – born late 1943 or early 1944 – were the advance guard of what are today known as the Baby Boomers, conceived soon after Stalingrad and El Alamein suggested that the Allies might, despite many initial setbacks, win World War II. Ten years later, the School feared 24 | Nottingham High School | Summer
Mr Horner’s 1A1 class photo from 1955. Upon rediscovering it sixty-seven years later, we tried to identify everyone: we apologize to those whose full name we cannot now recall. Front Row (Left to right) Roger Jarrett; Jeremy Thorndyke; Poole; David (?) Lee; Ian Douglas Morton; Anthony Lewis; Christopher Kent Seated (Left to right) Noel Geoffrey Parker; David Winfield; Mr Horner; Shaughan Terry; Robert Mardling Back Row (Right to left) Deane; Unknown; Skinner?; Russell Hardwick; Rowan; Peter Ullyatt; Richardson?; Stephen Maslen; Barrington; David Niven; Guy Gibson Pooley; Unknown; David Somekh (almost invisible)’ David Cheeseborough; Sainsbury
