Old Princethorpians

The last issue of the OP e-newsletter brough memories flooding back for Richard Dawtrey, a contemporary of Jean Pierre Parsons and Charles Lawton from the early 70s.

Richard remembers, "I was at the school at the same time with my brother Phil and used to travel every term from Zambia on some fairly strange planes, including the old Dekota DC3 which landed on a mud runway and was like a ride on one of these things at Fun Parks which, I must add people pay for now.

I was quite lucky, I would say, I had a single room on the top corridor next to a french guy called (Comte) Stanislaus D'anville, and at the time Richard Walsh was head boy. (I am still in contact with him now and again.)

I came back to the UK in the 70s and have been here since, these days I am employed as a senior manager in the NHS and live in Yorkshire.

I used to play in the Tower common room with a couple of lads with a view to starting a band. These days I still do the music and have an act called Tricky@Trick and have a web page offering downloads which goes quite well.  Never did music at school, maybe I should have.

Any of the old guys want to see what became of this old rocker, check it out  on www.sellaband.com/tricky-at-trick/ any comments would be great.

Would be great to hear from any OP's who see this note to have a catch-up.