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Some people are e-mailing me to say that they are having trouble accessing the site. I presume that their server and my server are not compatible. I'm not an expert on the internet so I don't know. Unfortunately, if you can't read this then you need to read this, if you get what I mean? Two peple at the reunion liked the website. One person thought it was boring. Please send in details of your fascinating lifes and I'll stick them on the site. Do you want me to contact teachers for the next reunion?
			A day at the Mitchell. Visit to the Mitchell Today, I went up to the archives room at the Mitchell Library. I am very unemotional on the surface, and I (until I started the website) had no interest in my old schooldays. However, I left the Mitchell with a tear in my eye and a thudding of the heart. I managed to recognise most of the boys in my class photo. The three boys that bullied me, including the one boy in particular that bullied me persistently and badly. I remember (from 2nd year) that boy asking me to go to the fibreglass factory derelict site so he could beat me up. I told him I was a coward and wouldn't go. Sam Twaddle said that he'd go instead. As he was getting off his jacket, this bully jumped him and beat him up. I could feel strong negative emotions looking at the photo. I remember David Shannon who taught me how to grow up. Previously I was awkward, extremely shy (I wouldn't sit beside a girl on a bus), and overly concious of my bad features. David taught me good and bad things. But growing up helps you to learn what to learn. I couldn't see my other pal, Wullie Murdoch. I looked at the photo of 3E from 70-71. My first love was in the pic (obviously, I wont tell you her name). She was just as pretty as I remembered. Her smile was even prettier though. I still feel quite affected by looking at the pics. Previously, I had never thought that the past had any part to play in my life. It costs £6.10 for a picture quality copy of a class photo. Photocopies from the school mag costs £0.50 each. I am writing (to the archives) to ask if I can have permission to put them on the website. One small box contains all the memories of Possilpark. There are good quality black and white class pics of all classes 1970-71 session. And a school band photo. I'm in Class 4B at the right hand side. 70-71 pics are Ref: D-ED 7/169/6/3. You can write in and order copies of your class group. There are class pics from 1964-65 (Ref: D-ED 7/169/6/1. There are also pics from the "Glasgow Citizen" (their copyright) of sports and music clubs. Pics of the garden at Ardoch st. Plus various pics 1963-64 and pics from approx. 1940 onwards. Ref: D-ED 7/169/6/2. A school handbook from 1991 lists all teachers names. It also gives capacity of School as 921. Actual was only 373. It describes the main features of accommodation as, The school consists of a main building which was built in two stages and linked at first floor level. These stages are in fact known as Phase 1 and Phase 2. Phase 1 block incorporates specialist areas for Science and Technical Subjects plus one girls gymnasium, dining hall and a large Assembly Hall. Phase 2 incorporates specialist areas for Art, Home Economics, Business Studies and a boys gymnasium. There is a playing field attached to the school and further facilities at Chirnsyde Play Fields. After the 1873 Education Act, "Wee Possil" was built beside Possil Station on Balmore Road. Oakbank and Keppochill schools sprang up in 1878. Around 1890 the old part of Possilpark School, "Big Possil", was built by the local firm of A. Taylor. There was a tin school in Barloch Street prior to this. Possil, or "Wee Possil", continued as a primary. Big Possil was an advanced division school. There is a copy of "Scope" (the magazine of Possilpark Scondary School Summer 1969 issue was second in the Scotsman newspaper school mag of the year). I hope to include some fashion pics from Scope 1969 and some poems from "now and then". Possilpark school mag 1967.