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| George Tomlinson
gets in touch Jan 26th. 2006 |
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Hello Mike, Just read your website page on Derby Central School and thought that it was excellent – it must have taken many hours to create such an interesting site. I was looking at the photographs of the school in black and white and sepia, and it reminded me that I had recently obtained a colour postcard of the School dated c1950 whilst I was carrying out some family history research. See attached. Whilst reading you pages, I was amazed to find a picture of Adrian Wildbore. I had worked with him at the Railway Technical Centre in Derby for about 20 years, and never knew that he was an Old Centaur. |
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If you want to see who I am, then look at the School Photo of 1954; I am standing immediately behind, and just to the right of Ken Limbert. (See above - Ed.) I was part of the 1950 intake and left in August 1954. I even remember the photographer with his clockwork camera standing on the “well manicured lawn” taking this panoramic shot. If you have any problems with retrieval of the photo, please tell me and I will send it in another format. Best regards, George William Tomlinson THEN SOME AFTERTHOUGHTS ... Jan 28th 2006 You seem to be getting a barrage of messages from me, but it was great to read all about some of own memories as recorded by other fellow pupils at the school. I am new to this game of the Internet – I was not connected until 6th January 2006, so I am learning bit by bit! Just read about Denis Tunnicliffe - I did some expert witness consultancy work for his Railway Standards Board following the Ladbroke Grove train crash, and didn’t even realise it was him, and that he was an “Old Centaur”. The world is small – I was walking through he Temple of Heavenly Peace in Beijing whilst working for the World Bank, and someone shouts – “Hello George”, the guy was from Burton on Trent on another assignment (coal) whilst I was advising on railways!
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