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macsmurraymacsmurray Posts: 2,134
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My school has the ignominious claim that Ian Brady attended it. Anyone else here have famous ex-pupils from their school?
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    mackaramackara Posts: 4,063
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    Yes but before my time, Lt Col Paddy Blair Mayne.
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    exlordlucanexlordlucan Posts: 35,375
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    mackara wrote: »
    Yes but before my time, Lt Col Paddy Blair Mayne.

    You went to Regent House Grammar School?

    Who'da thought that :D
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    mackaramackara Posts: 4,063
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    exlordlucan wrote: »
    You went to Regent House Grammar School?

    Who'da thought that :D

    Yeah, but I am not a snob I will have you know:D
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    exlordlucanexlordlucan Posts: 35,375
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    Nobody from my school became famous even though many were infamous.
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    RandomSallyRandomSally Posts: 7,072
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    Justin and John Fashanu (was in the same form group with John all through secondary school). Maybe not overly famous, certainly not in the Brady sense, but well known enough I guess.
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    Ancient IDTVAncient IDTV Posts: 10,174
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    A member of the indie rock band Cud.

    Er, that's it.........
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 31
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    Ronny & Reggie
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 234
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    Cat deeley and Matthew Marsden both went to my school, not sure how great that makes it.
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    teresagreenteresagreen Posts: 16,444
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    Judy Parfitt, who played Sister Monica Joan in 'Call the Midwife'. We had a Sister Monica at our school as well.
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 5,383
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    Many years after I left, World Superbike champion, accomplished musician and all-round "good egg" (and now Mr Katie Melua), James Toseland went to my old comprehensive. His granny was in the WI with my late Mum. Oh and one of the pro dancers off the first few series of Strictly went there too.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales_High_School#Notable_Alumni
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    Miss XYZMiss XYZ Posts: 14,023
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    Someone from Hollyoaks did apparently. Can't remember his name though - he's a few years younger than me and by all accounts he's a bit of a heartthrob.
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    CaldariCaldari Posts: 5,890
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    Yes, three or four actually.
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    FortyTwo25FortyTwo25 Posts: 5,170
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    We have this thread so often
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    stu64stu64 Posts: 5,273
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    Only two I know of, Alan Carr was in the same year as my brother and knew him. Also Michael Underwood from CITV went to the same school

    Although the school has since been knocked down and rebuilt as a academy
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    [Deleted User][Deleted User] Posts: 1,304
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    Someone out of Franz Ferdinand. That's all I know of and he wasn't even in my year! There was a guy who was in the papers for pretending to be a teenager and attending the school but he was actually in his 30's, he would have been in my year but I'd changed school by then.
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    evil cevil c Posts: 7,833
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    A quick Google says Ernest Marples MP and Fred Perry. The grammar school was scrapped whilst I was attending, and relocated in a new building 3 miles away under the guise of a Senior Comprehensive. The original site is now a primary school and most of the playing fields have become an housing estate, the remainder have been tarmaced.
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    TheSilentFezTheSilentFez Posts: 11,103
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    Ernest Walton
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    macsmurraymacsmurray Posts: 2,134
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    FortyTwo25 wrote: »
    We have this thread so often

    Times change. And rather than necro post I thought I'd start it up again.

    You no like? Go read another thread :D
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    RegTheHedgeRegTheHedge Posts: 2,794
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    Loads....
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    rache_rache_ Posts: 105
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    Ian McKellan and Ralf Little (the boys' division of my school - I was in the girls')
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    dyer24dyer24 Posts: 741
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    All of the members of Muse
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    GabbitasGabbitas Posts: 8,985
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    Tony 'Baldrick' Robinson. Before I was there though.
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    trinity2002trinity2002 Posts: 16,059
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    Nope.

    I could scrape the barrel and mention that a boy in my year left to go to Lilleshall during the 3rd year and came on as a substitute during a televised England schoolboys match.
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    Si_CreweSi_Crewe Posts: 40,202
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    Kim Cattrall went to my school.

    Oddly enough, she later claimed that although she was born in Liverpool she grew up in Canada and even when she participated in that telly show about her family tree they still obfuscated the part about her childhood.

    I'm thinking she has, perhaps, indulged in some "retcon" about her childhood, perhaps as a means to make it easier to get her Equity card?

    *EDIT*
    Also, Keith Harris went to the same school I did.

    The weight of historical significance is a heavy burden to bear. :o
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    c0boc0bo Posts: 6,468
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    Nobody famous has been to my school.
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