As a relative newcomer to the Internet I was pleased and interested to discover the correspondence sent by former pupils of the Watford Central School in your weekly Nostalgia page.
Joe Lilliman, who was mentioned several times, was my father, and the letters you printed have brought back many memories of the years before and during the war when my brother and I were growing up.
My father came from Northamptonshire and trained as a teacher before World War One. He served in the army as a lance corporal and medical orderly in the Royal Fusiliers and then joined with the Machine Gun Corps in France.
He joined the staff at the Central School in 1921, where he taught maths and also took groups of pupils for seaside camping holidays. In 1936 he became headmaster and remained at the school until his retirement in 1950.
I have a cutting and a photograph of a presentation to him by the pupils, which appeared in your newspaper at that time. After retirement he continued his work with the NUT and also links with Polish refugees. He died in 1975, aged 85.
I hope this letter may be of interest to your paper and to any readers of the Nostalgia page.
Lewis has since informed me that he went to Watford Grammar, not the Central School (M.R.).
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