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At the chalkface: The school photograph

Hopefully there will always be some pupils who will resist this conformity. Even at my crusty old grammar school, there were always some wags who managed to sabotage things – like the enormous whole school photo...

Have you still got your old school photos?

Of course you have.

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A moment in time, so resonant, especially your primary school photos.

Mine are on this desk. After nigh on 70 years. Blimey.

There I am with my lovely five-year-old chums and the gorgeous Miss Weston. Class One, Chalfont St Peter Primary School, 1950, in glorious, fading black and white.

Click! Another one. The First XI Football Team of 1954. There we are with our high ankle boots, hooped socks, baggy shorts, proper shirts, crossed legs, folded arms, trying to look stern like Stanley Matthews. We practised forever on Gold Hill Common using the silver birch trees as goal posts. Bliss. We thought it would never end. Has life got any better?

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