I have recently made contact (after a rather prolonged absence)with Chris McCready, who is well and working hard on restoring his computer to its' former glory.
Some of you may remember Peter Guthrie who was at HC in the early 60s, well unfortunately we have just learned that he was killed in a car accident back in 1977 when he was just 28 years old.
Chris recently received an e-mail from his sister (now Pamela Graham) and I have reproduced the contents of it here for you.
If any of you remember Pete Guthrie and have some memories, please share them in the comments section or contact me privately and I will make sure they are passed to Pamela and subsequently Pete's son, who wants to learn more about his father.
Email reproduced as follows:
By some circuitous route through cyberspace I have found myself on the Old Harlovians website. Apart from being astonished that such a site exists in the first place I am also amazed that you are holding reunions and swapping old photos - it's really great to know that the spirit of Harlow College lives on all these years after it was demolished.
My name is Pamela Graham but I used to be Pamela Guthrie and my brother, Peter Guthrie, was a pupil at Harlow College at the same time as you.
You will probably not remember this after so long, but you and Dave Christian often came to our house at weekends (when Peter was allowed out for good behaviour - ha ha) when we lived at Theydon Bois in Essex, and lots of other names are now coming to mind such as Johnny Hackett, who lived at Loughton, Chris Lockwood, Nadir Bassenghi (Noddy ) from Persia (are we still allowed to call it that?) who my friend Sue and I remember as being very good looking and having the most wonderful Beatle haircut, and who I think my mother would have liked to adopt.
The reason I am contacting you is twofold. Firstly to let you know for your OH records that Peter very sadly died in a car accident in 1977 at the age of 28 (30 years ago this year - unbelievable really). His son, Ian, was born in 1976 and therefore has no recollection of his father as he was only 18 months old when Peter died.
As Ian has got older and met a number of friends and relatives who remember Peter, and especially now that he has a child of his own, he has wanted to know more and more about him, what he was like, what he did at school, etc etc. I thought I would look on Friends Reunited and see if there were any Harlow College names which rang bells and maybe contact some of them, and that is how I stumbled across your Old Harlovians site.
If you don't remember Peter at all then please forgive my intrusion and my ramblings. If you do remember, or are in contact with anyone who you think might remember him, would you be kind enough to give them my email address. I would be delighted to hear from anyone who remembers him and would love to pass on any anecdotes, reminiscences, etc to my lovely nephew.
Somewhere I have some Harlow College year photos and also a colour one of Peter's class just before they all left and which everyone has signed on the back. If I can dig them out I will scan them and let you have them for your website. I can also confirm that in the 1962 year photo, Peter is the fifth boy from the right on the top row.
