John Edward Cooper’s Notes

Speech Day, 19th December 1962
Speech Day, 18th December 1963
Speech Day, 16th December 1964
Speech Day, 22nd December 1965
Senior Speech Day, 11th November 1966
Senior Speech Day, 10th November 1967
Senior Speech Day, 29th November 1968
Senior Speech Day, 24th October 1969
Senior Speech Day, 23rd October 1970
Senior Speech Day, 28th October 1971
Senior Speech Day, 26th October 1972

In 1977 the school and the nearby Bailey Secondary School were merged into Hesketh High School (later renamed inter alia Fleetwood High School), and in 1989 the disused buildings were demolished to make way for a housing estate.

[i] The Georgian, No.71, page 1

These were the classes (or “forms”) I was in:

Form	Form Teacher	Sep.–Jul.	Reference
1A	Mrs. Leadbetter	1961–1962	Early days at Fleetwood Grammar School
2A	Mr. Price	1962–1963	Second year at Fleetwood Grammar School
3A	Mr. Harding	1963–1964	Third year at Fleetwood Grammar School
5X	Mr. J. Cooper	1964–1965	Fourth year at Fleetwood Grammar School
Lower 6th	Mrs. F. E. “Effie” Elliott	1965–1966	Tuesday 18th January 1966
Middle 6th	???	1966–1967
M.6th (rpt.)	Mr. Belshaw	1967–1968

My class photo, Form 2A, September 1962
(I’m second from the left on the back row.)


David Jones, with whom I had become friendly in the first year — though he’d not been in my form, 1A — was not in my form, 2A, either. He and his classmates had their photo taken around the same time that we did. He is in the centre of the back row. To his right (left as we look at the photo) is Peter Gooding, with whom I was not yet acquainted. The form teacher is Mr. David H. Smith.


This photo, of form 2C, was also taken at the same time. The form teacher is Miss Hilda Annis.


My class photo, Form 5X, April 1965
(I’m fourth from the right on the back row.)


At this time David Jones was the only boy in his class. Mrs. Parnaby was the form teacher.


Hockey team, ca.1965




Sports Day, 1967


Prefects, 1967–1968