A PHOTOGRAPH of Barnsley Grammar School pupils in Form 4A in the year 1949-50 is particularly interesting as the class included several lads who went on to achieve sporting and TV fame.
Notables are Michael Parkinson (first left, next to back row) who became a TV chat show host, Eddie Legard (fifth from the left on the middle row) who kept wicket for Yorkshire’s Second XI before moving to Warwick County Cricket Club, and Michael Greenwood, second from the left on the front row, who was an England amateur football international winning an FA Amateur Cup winner’s medal with Bishop Auckland.
He also captained the Great Britain soccer team in the 1960 Rome Olympics. Greenwood later became deputy director of the Central Council for the Physical Recreation Centre at Lillesshall.
Barry Jackson who taught at Barnsley schools loaned the photograph.
