There was one class mate who didn't attend the reunion but l did meet him some 15 years after leaving school....and if there were ever a person you wouldn't have thought would make good, it would have been him. Not wishing to be cruel but he wasn't the sharpest tool in the box.... having said that, the same applied to most of us in my class..... we were never going to be candidates for university challenge or anything similar and most of us, if l remember correctly, left school with no academic achievements whatsoever.
Anyhow back to D.G ...l can't remember where it was or the make of car he was driving but it did have me thinking how can he be driving a car like that?....so l asked him... it transpired that after a few months working in a factory he started helping himself to some scrap metal (electrical), namely the more valuable stuff, seeing that there was a profit to be made he jacked in his job and then started going round factories offering to get rid of their scrap metal (to my knowledge he had no tinker relatives) ...he went on to tell me that he dealt in precious metals and had a unit in Digbeth, Birmingham....well at least one of us did well.
So have any of your class mates become household names
