From: Stuart Morgan,
Date: 20 October 1999
Subject: Memories 1959 on
Hi Peter Hi Pat...
long time since we used to avoid cross country runs together I must congratulate
you on the site ... it's great. How about including links to the e-mail adresses
that people register on the site? How about links to the web sites of ex-Rowlies
... mine for example - http://stuart.morgan.tripod.com/index.html.
You may wish to try and find Paul Garlick, who in 1974 - 1975 worked as a sales
clerk in the sales department at Tyzack Sons and Turner, Little London Road. I
was the Personnel Manager there. There were also a couple of other ex-Rowlie's
there too - Watkinson, who I have seen from time to time in the Heeley area of
Sheffield and another guy who for the life of me I can't remember his name...
I have seen him too in the same area of Sheffield, not too long ago.
In the 70s Paul Garlick was living in the Charnock Area of Sheffield (Charnock
Drive, I think) and about three years ago I met him in the street and he was still
in the same house. Mind you I have lived in my family home in Sheffield since
1975.
Brian Wood was working for Sheffield Council in the housing department last time
I saw him (1980). He denied having been at school with me, and he said he didn't
have the time to talk. I subsequently checked and it was him. I was the Polytechnic
Personnel Manager at the Sheffield Polytechnic at that time and he was listed
in the council phone book, so I phoned him. He said he was too busy to talk, although
he did remember me by then.
Kevin McCabe (your photgraph) once beat me up for talking to his girlfriend at
a youth club (I didn't even know who she was until after the beating... then I
became friends with both Kevin and the girlfriend, Linda Glaves). Anyway, Kevin
is now a multi-millionnaire builder (Linda's dad owned a building firm at the
top of Scarsdale Road - Willliams Builders) and Kevin is a main board director
of Sheffield United FC.
I think Paul Madley died in about 1988. I remember reading that he had died, and
when I commented, my colleague at work said that she was his cousin, and that
he had indeed been an ex-Rowlie. Paul lived at Darnell and he and Bill Antcliff,
who lived at 22 Richmond Park Avenue, Handsworth were big mates.
Geoff Torr lives at North Anston, I am told. My mum told me that. She knows the
family. I went to junior school with Geoff.
Ralph Lee became a teacher. John Brennan (geography teacher...see below) told
me he had spoken to Ralph in a petrol station on Abbeydale Road about a year before
I last spoke to John (1980). John was living at Beauchief.
One of the old Rowlies from 1965 - 71 works in the Sports Centre at the Norton
College - Mick Bunting. He became a teacher at the school. He's now a supervisor
in the Graves sports centre.
In 1980, I was at the Poly as I said, and Pop Otley, John Brennan, Spike Godfrey
and Percy Snowden were lecturers at the Totley site of the Poly. As the Poly was
making a number of redundancies I had to interview them. At the end of the process
they all decided to take early retirement, although I was amazed how relatively
young they were. Mick Bunting told me subsequently, that Percy Snowden had died
of a heart attack.
Which other teachers can you remember...... Bumble Simpson (woodwork), Rowley
(music), Holy Joe Hay, Rutherford (Maths), oh my god I can't remember. Etchells
(english). Straw Balls, I mean Mr Haycock (PE), and then who was the other PE
teacher who lived at Coal Aston? The English teacher we had as a form teacher
also lived at Coal Aston.
Well must go, its late (2040 Friday night and I am still at work writing to you)
Contact me when I've thought a bit more about the history.
Oh and my wife's cousin Tony Kitchen, was at the school. He's two years older
than me. He's now MD of a company in Sheffield. I'll ask Val to let me have his
address, when I remember
Best regards Stuart
