MISSING . . .
THE DAILY MAIL offers the opportunity to re-establish contact with long-lost relatives and friends. Each week, MONICA PORTER features the story of someone trying to find a missing loved one and a tale of people reunited. Produced in conjunction with the voluntary tracing service Searching For A Memory, run by Gill Whitley. ‘I AM hoping you can track down some old school friends,’ writes Sue Woodhull, nee Harris.
‘We went to Harrison Barrow Girls Grammar School in Hall Green, Birmingham, in the early 1960s. The six of us were inseparable: Lyn Willis, Elizabeth Simmonds, Diane Nash, Diane Taylor, Linda King and me.
‘We played in a school netball league and during the holidays we’d play tennis on local courts.
‘Our art teacher, Mr Craven, was the only male in our girls’ school and I suspect we all had a crush on him at some point!
‘Of our group, Linda was my special friend. I would go to her house every Friday, and in the evening we would go dancing at a local youth club. We kept in touch for a while after leaving school and then lost contact.
‘Photographs weren’t taken at our school, so this is a picture of me when I was 11 years old at my junior school, the year I started at Harrison Barrow.
‘We’ll all be celebrating our 70th birthdays next year and it would be great to reunite and catch up on our life experiences.
‘I married in 1970 and had two children, but later divorced.
‘Then I met the love of my life, my second husband. We’ve been married for 44 years and we live in Tanworth-in-Arden, Warwickshire.’