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  1. On reflection, Green may even have been Barber, still alliterative but shows how indifferent I was to the 'house' system. Although I do recall Puff Latchford-history master, giving me a dressing down for sciving off a house rugby match. Rugby shirts were also banded with house colour, but reversible to all black so that scratch teams of various houses could be made up if necessary.
  2. I was McEwen too, 1963 onwards. The others, Baulk, yellow; Buckley, blue and Bailey? green. I'm sure you're right about the historical origins, something that I never concerned myself with and I can't recall that it was ever drilled into us at the time.
  3. In response to philmayfield, houses certainly weren't allocated prior to start of the school year in my era. The first morning everyone turned up wearing a motley collection of ties which they continued to wear until an opportunity was provided to go shopping for the relevant house tie. In some instances this took longer than some masters were prepared to tolerate. It was the norm for younger siblings to go into the same house as an older sibling who also went to Mellish so they could get house ties pre start of school. During my time at Mellish there was also a death which occured due to
  4. Billy Bristle. If I guess right, real blast from the past. Not to give you away-surname part of a book? Took the pillion on my SX200 to and from Ullwater. 2 weeks with Simo and John Willie Wesson?
  5. Hi, started at Mellish in mid September 1963, strangely, term started a week later than secondary moderns! I can still remember that first morning being marched round to the new part of the dining hall (proper chairs and smaller tables as opposed to the big tables and forms in the old part). I can still recite all 1b form list, 28? names, starting Beeby, Binch (me), Bott, Bridgeman, etc and ending White, Whitney, Wilkinson, Williams, apologies for any mis-spelling. 1b form room that year was on the ground floor overlooking Kersall Drive yard and form master Mr Crabtree, who took us for gener