It was a picture that has provoked some distant memories.
In early January we published this photograph of Class 3B at Hillhouse Secondary Technical School in July 1956.
They are (back, from left) Horsfall, Brogan, Cunnington, Cartwright, Wadeson, Small, Smith and Nicholson; middle row (from left) Early, Bates, McKean, Longbottom, Moorman, Donaldson, Craven and Bradley; front (from left) Henry, Mullarkey, Sheard, Bailey, form master Mr David Bryan, Clegg, Paton, Baker and Wilson.
And there was also a name missing off the original – that of Stephen Vasey who was third from right on the middle row.
Former bus driver Roy Small, now 70, contacted us to say he was on the photograph (wearing glasses third from right on the back row).
“I think as far as school days go, Hillhouse Secondary Technical was where I was most happy,” he said. “The picture brings back memories of people that perhaps I had forgotten about.
“I remember living in North Carr at Rawthorpe and walking over the top down past the old town ground and up Hillhouse Lane to school.”
He said it was a grammar school – but second to Huddersfield College and the two formed to become Huddersfield New College in the late 1950s.
“Despite its name Hillhouse was a grammar school and at a level I could take,” said Roy. “Huddersfield New College was a lot higher and some of us never really settled in there.”
Roy has now retired and lives in Morecambe, but his sister, Susan, still lives in Almondbury.
Roy spent nearly 28 years at County Motors in Waterloo, first as a conductor and then a driver. He then went on to work as an administrator at the YMCA in Milnsbridge on a programme for unemployed youngsters in the 1980s.
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