Still, let’s not dwell on that, and thanks anyway for writing about our school – your posts bring back many memories of great days gone by!

All the best, and yes, life has treated me well!

Well I guess things look different through the midsts of time and everyones childhood experience is a personal one. At least you do not dispute that these events happened (along with the odd riot or too), and, to be honest there was never a formal explanation given about the events running up to the stabbing….at least not to me.

As for Mz T – well, I guess boyhood sexual fanatsies are even more personal (and to be fair, there was not a lot of choice at the school). I hope you are happy with yours……and in the ebsence of others, I’ll stick to my own.

Hope life has treated you well.

My recollections are: It wasn’t a fight. There was no bullying – they were friends messing around. The one who died was also the one who brought the knife to school.

Perhaps I am wrong, but it strikes me most of your posts about HGS make it out to have been something like a war zone – I was there from 76-83, more or less the same period as you, yes there were problems in Handsworth, but… come on… it really wasn’t THAT bad….. still that wouldn’t make good blog would it?

Just like Mz M and Mz T being a bit tasty…. good grief man! Very saggy round the edges even then.

Coincidentally, M was the teacher on duty in the quad at the time of the stabbing, and cried her eyes out, understandably. The only time I felt sorry for her.

I’d have been traumatized for life.