Derekphil, Alec,
Thanks for your welcome and interest.
The pictures are from"The School 1920-1950, a Supplement", by H.Lever, M.A. [a supplement to "A Short History of the Central High School for Boys", published in 1935]. It's a 48-page booklet that was handed out to all the boys in 1950, which, despite all my travels, is somehow still with me. Unfortunately, I can't improve the resolution, as the pages are now pretty yellow and, to make matters worse, the maximum permitted size for each photo on this forum is 100KB, with a maximum total size of 150, so I have had to reduce them. I'll attach a scan of the List of Staff in the picture and, hopefully, if you enlarge it on your monitor, you will be able to identify everyone.
Seeing Wilkinson again (third row, fourth from the left), took me straight back to his Latin classes: if you had the misfortune to make more than a couple of mistakes when asked to conjugate a verb or decline a noun, he would crook his index finger, "Approach me, boy!", take out a slipper from a little cupboard near the door and thwack your backside - a staunch believer in the value of negative reinforcement, like so many in those days.."Piggy" Stewart, who almost always sported a crumpled tweed suit, and taught us in our fifth year, was a gentleman, by comparison. I got on well with him - and with his dog, a well-behaved terrier (if memory serves) that sat quietly behind him throughout the lesson. So long ago...
I'm also attaching a scan of "The Evolution of the School" and will include a photo of Lever, Trueblood and Pollard ("A Hundred Years of Service") in my next post.
Regards,
Barry