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    Hi our class pic from summer 1974,
    Im on front row 3rd from the right!

    ta Chris

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    Nice Pic Chris,always nice to have those old keepsakes !
    You should have put that one in the Gallery! People and Places!
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    Chris the photograph is quite good and a small one . Keep the big of that so that I can see it very clearly. I think those days at the school would be the best one and memorable.

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    Chris.Oh how it takes you back. I had the same photo, no, not yours, but mine was taken in February,1966, can,t find it now, but i wish I could get a duplicate..anybody got the answer..please..Graham

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    Didn't we all have funny haircuts in those days? I was a Vindi Boy from April to June 1949. Have never been able to contact any of my mates from those days. I dont have much hair these days.Don't suppose any of my mates have either.

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    As supreme as this site is there maybe (dare I say it) some other avenues folks could search for. There are now Facebook Gravesend Sea School and Vindi pages.It is a possibility that some on there may not know of our existence here.If one would like and not everyone would I do well understand, subsequently found some old friends bring them on over!!! Regards, Alan.

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    As a matter of interest,does anyone remember a deck instructor named Mr.Day? Although I was catering, he would take us out in the whaler as part of the course. He was a real old salt, and his favourite expression was "pull like you were pulling a German off your mother"
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    Catering Class of Nov.1949Attachment 3616 I am the serious looking one to the left of Mr.Roswell ( the penguin)
    Last edited by Pete Leonard (Bruno); 29th October 2010 at 06:08 PM. Reason: addition

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    I must be going (am ) mad . Every time I look at shipmates new school photos I am sure some of them were the same boys in our class. See if I am right..Perhaps they just changed their names and went back year after year because they enjoyed it so much.. Regards Alan..

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    Hi.Jan
    I,m glad that someone remembers some of the faces. We had a couple of celebrity lookalikes in the instructors. As you said Mr.Day looked like Arthur Askey and Mr.Roswell was a dead ringer for Tommy Trinder. I can't remember the name of the chief instructor, all I know was that he was a right cowson.
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