lamley jack

Not sure, Mess. I don't recall Muriel and I'm hazy about your pals but it was 50+ years ago!

Well, what a site for sore eyes! I’m John Leadbeater (aka ‘Lead’) and attended Claremont between 1959 and ’64. I think it was an excellent school in many ways. Small enough for the masters (there were no women) to make a difference to some of us who had been resistant to being educated, but with some strange philosophies. Jack Aram was on the whole a good Headmaster but maybe not very progressive. He had firmly Christian beliefs which he promoted to the exclusion of other religions, and even denied evolution in favour of strict biblical teachings. You always knew where you were with