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Memories from the Old School Yard

Can you help track Bugsy mob?

INSTANTLY recognisable, perhaps, in this 15-year-old picture are Mark Little and Gaby Roslin, then hosts of Channel 4 s The Big Breakfast show. But who else can you spot and where are they now? They were the original cast of a 1994 youth theatre productio... » MORE

Class of 1953

WE go back 56 years for today s Days of the Old School Yard…thanks to Mrs Maureen Richfield, and her outlook of life back in the East End all those many years ago. Maureen now lives out of London, in Billericay in Essex, but this takes us back to her scho... » MORE

Real gem takes us back over 80 years!

WE go back to the heady days of 1928 for this week s Days of the Old School Yard. It is sent in by an anonymous contributor, and features Class 3 at Lathom Road school in East Ham, all those years ago. We hope it will bring back happy memories for those f... » MORE

Riding a royal wave...

WE go back just 20 years for this week s Days of the Old School Yard when a disabled youngster was riding on the crest of a royal wave. It was back in 1989 when Spina Bifida sufferer John Paul Gray found it was plain sailing when he met Princess Michael o... » MORE
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  • Meeting a wooly jumper!
  • 'Thanks to you we're in focus!'
  • Delivering a classic tale of good days
  • Have a gander at Rev Goose
  • Oarsome fun with Olympic ace Gavin
  • Wartime wanders
  • Goalie Phil saved fun for this bar!
  • Fancy that! Schools on the ball for footie
  • Green tale that was just magic
  • Gladstone all over!
  • Trunk call for a jumbo treat as circus boy gets his bearings
  • Magnificent seven's fancy footwork
  • Who's who in the Nativity?
  • Pupils' master stroke
  • Turn of formality
  • A bash at being homeless!
  • It's Yanks for the memory
  • Lad's magic flute
  • Smashing tale of a giant pet
  • Books and bumps
  • The cracking cowboys
  • Hair we are - all for you
  • Shows came up trumps!
  • Coronation was really right up their street!
  • Rubberly jubbly- the eraser kid
  • Going swimmingly!
  • OIympic effort helped by heavyweight hero
  • Concrete proof of a dream that did set sail
  • United Down Under
  • More than 150 evacuated in blaze drama
  • Back to serious case of sledging
  • Pupils copped place in disco final
  • Panto stars of the past take a bow wow wow
  • A 'pyramid effect' on two fronts
  • Queen's day was a right royal time for this lot
  • Step back in time with dance girls
  • Badge boy lights way for dancer
  • It's Freda's class of '53
  • Seconds out for bout of the Twenties
  • Their 15 minutes of Fame!
  • Keeping the past in focus
    OUR weekly feature continues to bring back fond memories.
    We publish pictures from the days most people think are the best of their lives – the days of the old school yard.
    The fame of this feature has spread all over the world. We receive e-mails and letters from former East Enders from as far away as Australia, New Zealand, Cyprus, Japan and the USA.
    We now have a worldwide audience and readers are telling each other about our feature by e-mail and letter, and even mentioning it on sites such as Friends Reunited.
    It is a column we are all immensely proud of.
    If you would like your old school photo to rekindle happy times, it is very easy.
    Just send it to: Days of the Old School Yard, Recorder Newspapers, 182-184 High Street North, East Ham, E6 2JD.
    Or e-mail a copy of the picture – it must be in jpeg form please – to colin.grainger@ archant.co.uk. None of this will cost you a penny and we promise to take care of your photo and return it.
    There is no time limit on the happy days. You can send us pictures from as little as ten years ago…though our oldest picture so far has been from 1915!
    If you know anyone featured in each week’s photograph and any interesting facts about what became of them in later life, write to the same address or e-mail and we’ll share the news.

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