"I joined the school in 1937. I took an entrance examination. I suppose it was the eleven plus. I was two or three months short of eleven at the time, but this was overlooked. I was just outside the number of successful qualifiers,but two or three of them dropped out and I was offered a place in form 1C. Come to think of it, I must have joined the school at the same time as the late Leonard Brandon joined as Headmaster. I progressed from 1C to 3A , but then the family moved to Wolverhampton,where I attended the Grammar School for about eighteen months.

We returned to Aston after a couple of years and I rejoined the school in 5A. Then it was off to the Manor House in Ashby de la Zouche for a couple of enjoyable years at the end of which I became school captain (1944?), and we returned to Aston.

I notice from your website that you have a film of the school evacuation to Ashby and I wonder if by any chance copies of this have been made on CD. Also, are there by any chance school photos from '43-45 or photos of the school rugby team?

I lived on the Lichfield Road when I first joined the school and can remember pigs being offloaded early morning for slaughter at Thomsons, the Pork Butchers. I made my way to school past Ansells Brewery on the left and HP Sauce Works on the right. Heady stuff early in the morning."