Looking Back: Spring 1955

This school photograph dates back to the spring of 1955. Three members of the team went on to Stationers that autumn. The weedy guy in the goalkeeper’s jersey in the back row is the late and Right Honourable The Lord Triesman. He probably went as far in politics as any Stationer, ending up as a Minister of State when his 18 month stint as the General Secretary of the Labour Party didn’t go down so well. Second from the left is Geoff Gascoigne, to this day a doughty golfer – don’t arrange a get-together on a Tuesday! [By way of an aside, next to Geoff, in the middle of that row, was our captain, Graham Spring who played for Arsenal under 16s until, as with so many, injury wrecked his career.] Finally the even weedier chap with the ball is ageing Lothario and actor manqué Keith Knight.