The reason for the shock – the picture right of the speech day at Peter Webster School in 1962.

For both of them are on it – Paul is fifth on the front row and Roger on the far right of the back row.

Paul, who now lives at 6 Athelstan Road, Worksop, says: "I think I would have only been at Peter Webster's for around a year at this time, as I was 12 when we moved from Sheffield to Kendal Road, Newbold.

Other faces Paul can put names to are head boy G. Frisby (the one with glasses on his left looking at the picture), his 3A classmate David Struggles on his right and Michael Briddon next to him.

"I think the boy top left on the back row is Stuart Briddon."

Roger, who lives at 4 Meadowhill Road, Hasland, says he was 13 at the time the picture was taken.

But admits he is unable to recall any of the other names as they were all different age groups and not in his class.

Paul, however, recalls he and David won form prizes and Michael the school choir prize.

And he says that Frisby and Michael — along with Alan Else from Sheepbridge, R. Barlow, who lived on Occupation Road, and T. Hucknall were all school prefects with him later in the fifth year. "By which time Alan and myself were growing Beatle haircuts!"

Pauls says that many, but not all, of the boys went to well paid work in heavy industry, coal mining and similar. "I found I was quite artistic and took a different course. In the year following the photo, due to some forward thinking on the part of the headmaster, R. M. Lewis, and the art teacher, Mrs Jackson, I took my O-level GCE in art a year early. It did eventually lead to a career in the areas of art and design, in which I still work to ths day."

Paul sent in a cutting from the original Derbyshire Times reporting on the speech day. It lists the prize winners as:

Form prizes: G. Watkinson, H. Haystead, S. Drew, R. Hancock, R. Davison, R. Annetts, P. Bullas, R. Oldfield, G. Boler, W. Hill, P. Norton, D. Struggles, B. Hepworth, J. Delaney, M. Goode, G. Nelson.

Senior football, D. Bonson; junior PE, R. Moore; athletics, J. Hunt; choir, M. Briddon; swimming, J. Hardy; metalwork, J. Roderick; cricket, M. Horton; woodwork, G. Frisby; senior PE, D. Bonson; NALGO, G. Nelson.

Special prizes for outstanding success in external examinations: J. Roderick and G. Frisby.

Headmaster's prize: G. Frisby.

Governors' prize for the best all-round performance: M. J. Horton.

* David Bonson's wife spotted her husband third from the left on the back row.