RETIRED Baptist Minister Rev Wallace Swift attended Worsbrough Dale Boys' Junior Council School.

He has submitted a photograph of himself and his classmates taken in the school year 1931/32.

Named are: back row, left to right; not known, Burnett, not known, not known, Johnson, not known, Wallace Swift, Jack Bower, not known, not known, not known.

Next to back row; Dawson, not known, not known, not known, Philip, not known, not known, Eric Spencer, not known, Victor Newell, not known, not known.

Next to front row: Turton, not known, not known, not known, D Wallace, Jack Roebuck, Dennis Wright, Fred Green, Clifford Gawthorpe, P Hemingway.

Geoffrey Coe is third from the left on the front row. The other names are not known. Dennis Wright and his parents emigrated to Canada a year after the photograph was taken.

The staff included: Mr Jollie, Mr Hemingway, Mr Roebuck, Mr Greenwood and Miss Inman. Mr Wallace, who lived at Ward Green, transferred to Barnsley Grammar School in September 1934. He left in 1939 and began work in the chemical laboratory at Samuel Fox's steelworks, staying until 1944 when he went into the Army.

After initial training, he transferred to the RASC. He was posted to India in 1945 and later that year was seconded to the Indian Army Corps of Clerks with the rank of sergeant. He returned to civilian life in 1947 and his first job was in the Civil Service.

Mr Wallace was married to his late wife for almost 49 years. They have three children, 10 grandchildren, and two great-grandchildren.