Famous people at your school

[The Colonel]

I left in 1991 mate. You?

I am from the manor '92 we had a few good run ins with woods lane around that time :)

Haha! I remember chasing your lot off a fair few times.

Never had any real beef with The Manor though, it was them cafflicks up the road at St. James' that often got taken down a peg or two.

Haha not in my day

 

[Barcon]

Brierley Ave/ Partington st. Failsworth
Simon Wright - Drummer in AC/DC, Dio, UFO etc.
Darren Wharton - Keyboard player in Thin Lizzy.

Having said that, I was sure that Mani went to the same scool until somebody on here set me straight.

That was me.

Mani went to Xaverian 1974 - 1979.

Yeah I know mate, you ruined my claim to fame ;) (Although he did come to my Grans in Newton Heath for a cup of tea with me once).
Still a pretty deccent amount of musicians came out of a small area of Failsworth considering the size of it.

Oh, one of my mates told me that he was the leader of the race riots that went on around there at the time. I wasn't as impressed as he hoped I might be.

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

The Macc Lads

Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris of the rock band Joy Division

Steve Smith, England, Sale and British Lions scrum-half who won 28 England caps, five as captain

Peter Kenyon, former Chelsea FC Chief Executive

Oliver Holt, former Chief Sports Correspondent for The Times and currently Chief Sports Writer for The Daily Mirror

Andy Bird CBE, Chair of Walt Disney International

Sir Peter Ellwood, former CEO of LLoyds TSB Group

Guy Laurence, CEO of Vodafone UK

Peter Moores, Former England Cricket Coach and current coach for Lancashire Cricket Club

Michael Jackson, former Channel 4 Chief Executive

Sir Eric Malcolm Jones, Previous Director of GCHQ

Jonny Woodward, one of the world’s greatest rock climbers

Jonny Marsden, current Derbyshire County Cricket Club player

Rick Pool-Jones, Sporting Director of French professional rugby club Stade Francais

Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP, politician

Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News (attended Junior School)

Christian Blackshaw, classical pianist

Andrew Wilson, Rugby and Cricket Correspondent at The Guardian

Kings, Macc eh? You failed the MGS entrance exam then.

Amazingly I passed the MGS entrance exam, but after serious consideration chose Stockport Grammar, as no moderators attended, and they had a convent school next door, as well as pubs and bookies within walking distance.

 

[LeeOnePen]

87 to 94 - hated every single second

91-98, we were Blighted by the same curse.

73 to 80 - how fucking old do I feel!

Add to the list, the ones I have heard of
Andrew Bennett, Labour MP, Gorton
Peter Butterworth, actor
John Doyle, drummer with Magazine
Derek Leckenby (1943–1994), lead guitarist of Herman's Hermits
Sir Robert Mark, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police

You're from Dane Bank and you went to WHGS? I thought I was the only one.

 

[OB1]

The Macc Lads

Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris of the rock band Joy Division

Steve Smith, England, Sale and British Lions scrum-half who won 28 England caps, five as captain

Peter Kenyon, former Chelsea FC Chief Executive

Oliver Holt, former Chief Sports Correspondent for The Times and currently Chief Sports Writer for The Daily Mirror

Andy Bird CBE, Chair of Walt Disney International

Sir Peter Ellwood, former CEO of LLoyds TSB Group

Guy Laurence, CEO of Vodafone UK

Peter Moores, Former England Cricket Coach and current coach for Lancashire Cricket Club

Michael Jackson, former Channel 4 Chief Executive

Sir Eric Malcolm Jones, Previous Director of GCHQ

Jonny Woodward, one of the world’s greatest rock climbers

Jonny Marsden, current Derbyshire County Cricket Club player

Rick Pool-Jones, Sporting Director of French professional rugby club Stade Francais

Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP, politician

Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News (attended Junior School)

Christian Blackshaw, classical pianist

Andrew Wilson, Rugby and Cricket Correspondent at The Guardian

Kings, Macc eh? You failed the MGS entrance exam then.

PMSL.

Didn't take it.

Kings did hammer MGS at rugby; although I must confess I was only a squad member. Stupid game.

 

[Plaything of the gods]

Also Stephen Glover, a co-founder of The Independent. He was there 4 or 5 years above me.

 

[OB1]

The Macc Lads

Ian Curtis and Stephen Morris of the rock band Joy Division

Steve Smith, England, Sale and British Lions scrum-half who won 28 England caps, five as captain

Peter Kenyon, former Chelsea FC Chief Executive

Oliver Holt, former Chief Sports Correspondent for The Times and currently Chief Sports Writer for The Daily Mirror

Andy Bird CBE, Chair of Walt Disney International

Sir Peter Ellwood, former CEO of LLoyds TSB Group

Guy Laurence, CEO of Vodafone UK

Peter Moores, Former England Cricket Coach and current coach for Lancashire Cricket Club

Michael Jackson, former Channel 4 Chief Executive

Sir Eric Malcolm Jones, Previous Director of GCHQ

Jonny Woodward, one of the world’s greatest rock climbers

Jonny Marsden, current Derbyshire County Cricket Club player

Rick Pool-Jones, Sporting Director of French professional rugby club Stade Francais

Rt Hon Sir Alan Beith MP, politician

Jon Craig, Chief Political Correspondent of Sky News (attended Junior School)

Christian Blackshaw, classical pianist

Andrew Wilson, Rugby and Cricket Correspondent at The Guardian

Kings, Macc eh? You failed the MGS entrance exam then.

Amazingly I passed the MGS entrance exam, but after serious consideration chose Stockport Grammar, as no moderators attended, and they had a convent school next door, as well as pubs and bookies within walking distance.

Another bunch of pansies that Kings used to trample over.

 

[danebanksheik]

91-98, we were Blighted by the same curse.

73 to 80 - how fucking old do I feel!

Add to the list, the ones I have heard of
Andrew Bennett, Labour MP, Gorton
Peter Butterworth, actor
John Doyle, drummer with Magazine
Derek Leckenby (1943–1994), lead guitarist of Herman's Hermits
Sir Robert Mark, Commissioner of the Metropolitan Police

You're from Dane Bank and you went to WHGS? I thought I was the only one.

There were 6 of us from West End that year, good vintage

 

[East Level 2]

Warren Hegg, Ian Cheeseman, and Clive of India though that was a couple of hundred years earlier.

 

[The Flash]

I am from the manor '92 we had a few good run ins with woods lane around that time :)

Haha! I remember chasing your lot off a fair few times.

Never had any real beef with The Manor though, it was them cafflicks up the road at St. James' that often got taken down a peg or two.

Haha not in my day

Didn't realise the rivalry went all the way back to the Boer War, Colonel?