1978-1982
Tim Appleyard
Andrew Beet
Jonathon Blake
Robert Borthwick
Jamie Bridges
Steve Bromby
Neil Buckley
Dean Charlton
Timothy Claxton
Phil Dolan
Andy Farrington
Paul Gascoigne
Vincent Groak
Paul Hairsine
John Holbrook
Richard Ingham
David Lindridge
Shaun McKenzie
Gary Meggitt
Kevin Melling
Stephen Nunn
Stewart Park
'Shep' Shepherdson
Paul Stead
Paul Symes
Jonathon Thrustle
Paul Tinegate
Phil Underwood
Kevin Whelam
Chris Wilkin
Gary Wilmot
Andy Wilson
Martin Wilson

1980-1984
Stuart Farrington
Mark Taylor
Wayne Underwood

1981-1985
Robert Farrington

Feb 28th 2004: Old Meggs has been working hard on the research front.
The man himself applied to the judiciary! So maybe one day, he will meet up with some old class mates, in not-so pleasant circumstances!
Back to the research thing:
David Lindridge worked as an Insurance Loss Adjuster in Mexico (does that sound fishy or what?) for 9 years, returned to the UK in 2002 and now lives in York.
Paul Gascoigne (no not THE Paul Gascoigne) works for a media company in London.
Thanks for the update Gary!

Feb 4th 2004: Oh my wordy! I just found out a bunch of stuff about Gary Meggitt.
The guy went on to Oxford, became a solicitor, ran for a Parliamentary seat
(as a fine upstanding Conservative) and is now lecturing.
That's quite a resume for a kid who went school on North Hull Estate!
If you don't believe me, check it out for yourself:
news.bbc.co.uk

2.General Information

Ahhh, happy days of endless sunshine, soccer and cricket. Bordered by North Hull Estate, Endike Lane, Beverley High Road and Barmy Drain, was Endike Junior High School. Unless I'm very much mistaken the old Junior school is now a Primary School. Maybe someone can correct me on this if I'm wrong - seems awful big for a Primary school. Any road up, I now live in America, so it's kinda hard to check up on these things!

The school colours were Amber and Black (very Hull City-esque) and speaking of colours remember the House thing? Fairfax-Red, Haworth-Blue, Maister-Green,Wilberforce-Yellow. Maybe if you performed well in a particular school activity you got a ... House Point! Being in Wilberforce I got to wear the girly yellow vest at soccer, athletics etc.

There were around 400 kids attending Endike at any one time. Rather, 400 boys; that's a lot of pre-pubescent types running around! So, 400 kids divided into 4 years, divided again into 3 or 4 classes. Between 20 and 30 kids per class. The first and second years' classes (9+ and 10+) weren't divided dependant upon academic ability; the 3rd and 4th years' were (11+1 to 11+4 and 12+1 to 12+4). Pretty clever of 'em to call the years 9+,10+ etc., just in case you forgot how old you were!

3.Personal Memories

As a kid I loved soccer. Every breaktime and lunchtime, snow or shine we'd play the beautiful game; unless it was really sunny then we played the other white meat beautiful game - cricket. Remember June/July time when some of the teachers played cricket with the kids during lunchtime? Man, that was brutal. Teachers: Connell and Banks hurtling cricket balls West Indian style, thank goodness Mr. Hewson had a leisurely Derek Underwood bowling technique. There seemed something praiseworthy about smashing a window or clonking the ball in Barmy Drain during such activities. Maybe said illegalities with teachers present was deemed cool; hey, respect, Man!

I was heavily into the sport's programme at Endike. We had a good footy and cross country team. We won the Hull and District Cross Country Team Event in 1981/2. I finished 11th out of 200 runners and with two others from our team in the top 5, we walked (err... ran) it! Sheesh, they even gave us a trophy!

Remember your first fight at school? Well here's mine: I was just hanging the playground when some kid ran past me and caught the side of my face with a kind of handslap. Man, was I pissed off! I collared the kid and we squared off. Within seconds a gang of 25 kids were encircling us, chanting the fight song, "Fight, fight, fight!" - pretty original eh?! So being caught up in the atmosphere I laced into the kid, giving him a bloody nose. Within a few more seconds the teacher on yard duty hauled the kid off to the Headmaster's Office and I mingled into the obscurity of the crowd.

4.Classmates

1.Tim Appleyard: During a 'Games' period Tim was playing hockey. I was in a soccer game, on an adjacent field. A student teacher accidently whacked Tim in the mouth with his hockey stick! Tim, instinctly held his mouth for a second or two then out came the blood and teeth!
2.'Bodger' Borthwick: This kid perpetually had a 'skinhead' haircut. Oddly enough I met up with 'Bodger' again at a YTS course on Raywell Street, in Hull. We had fun using the company phone to make crank calls and we tried to slack off as often as possible.
3.Neil Buckley: Captain of the school footy team, played for Hull City Boys and later Hull City AFC. Was also, in his 4th year, 'cock' of the school - that means he was the best fighter, what else could it mean? Neil was a nice guy, last time I saw him was around 1992, during his Hull City playing days.
4.Phil Dolan: With the emergence of the Punk scene, in Phil, we had our resident punk. At around 6 feet tall, he hung around with under 5 feet tall, Bodger Borthwick - quite a pair! Phil had the unusual gift of ripping the smelliest farts, the ubiquitous stench gave him quite a reputation!
5.Paul Gascoigne: No, not THE Paul Gascoigne. I used to call Paul, 'Bomber Gasbag.' Paul was incredible at art, I remember being amazed at a drawing he did of the magi. Amongst others, Paul used to bring a pack lunch for dinner. On one particular lunch I put a small packet of salt (from salt n shake crisps) into his coke to see what would happen. His coke spewed forth quite impresively!
6.Vincent Groak: This is the guy, academically who came top of the class. I bumped into 'Groaky' in 1997 when purchasing flight tickets to America. He had his own travel company, 'A2B Travel' on Beverley Road, in Hull. Said he studied economics at some University. He was a big Hull FC fan and, I think, he may be the chief dog of the Hull FC Supporters Club - or something
7.John Holbrook: 'Holly' was a good guy, who liked Man Utd; I was a Liverpool supporter myself. 'Holly' loved playing soccer but couldn't run or balance too well. This never stopped him from getting involved, I admired his determination.
8.Kevin Melling: Now this kid could really play the beautiful game. Great with both feet, a real pleasure to play alongside. He played for Hull City Boys - deservedly so. You had Kev and Neil Buckley on your team, you're never gonna lose! I think he married young, not too sure.
9.Stephen Nunn: Not a kid I much associated with at Endike but got to know a little better at senior school. 'Nunny' and I were the only kids from Endike who went on to Trinity House School. I'm struggling to think of anything positive to say about Trinity House, maybe one day I'll put up a page dedicated to how crap it was.
10.Paul Stead: In my book, 'Steady's' 15 minutes of fame came went his teacher, Mrs. Doran was yiping at him for something or other. Poor 'Steady' got rather disgruntled and exclaimed, "I'm going 'ome!" And promptly got up from his desk and walked out the classroom. You had to admire the sheer audacity of that event, except, I guess no-one was home because he came back 15 minutes later!
11.Phil Underwood: Wow, another good guy! Easy going, smart, always smiling and a rather good goalkeeper. Yes he played goalie for the school team and a Sunday League team, maybe even a cub scout team.
12.Andy Wilson: So everyone had a best mate, Andy Wilson was mine. Very talented athlete: best at cross country, good footballer, rugby player and excellent boxer - I believe one of, if not the best boxer in Hull for his age group. Last I heard from him was the late '80s, I think he was an electrician.
13.Martin Wilson: A funny guy who hung around with 'Steady.' I remember him always bleeping his digital watch alarm and pissing off the teachers.

5.Teachers

1.Mr. Woolaston: Headmaster, the nameplate on his office door read, 'J A Woolaston;' one kid showed me the first three letters (J A W) were also the first three letters of 'Jaws,' you know, that movie about the big fish. I found him to be a really nice guy, proud of his school and pupils.
2.Mr Hewson: My class teacher in '9HE.' Soft spoken, bearded and well over 6 feet tall - to me he was a gentle giant.
3.Mr Grange: My class teacher in '10GE.' I saw 'Grangey' at a party in 1991-ish, he was somewhat inebriated and a young lady was trying to engage him in, well er, it was a party, you figure it out. I think he was a little embarrased when we approached and identified him as our old school teacher; I'm sure the drink helped in the situation.
4.Mrs Doran: Quite a stern woman was she. She made me sit at the back of the class for talking too much. Alas my eyesight was worsening so I had to move closer to the front because I couldn't read her scrawl on the chalkboard, HA!
5.Mr Tidyman: Ohhh 'RAGGY.' 'Raggy was an absolute a-hole. I got told off by him once because the margin I had drawn down the left of my page was 1.8mm wide instead of 2.0mm - oh please! I only had 'Raggy' for one class, English I believe; not too memories but everyone else hated him too, the guy was too pedantic, chill out dude!
6.Mr Banks: Speaking of a-holes. Surely he wasn't that bad, was he? Come on people give me something positive to write here.
7.Mr Cowle: An older teacher who was something of a Hull City supporter. During 'Practical Drawing' he could ofted be heard, 'Hmm, very reasonable, niiinnnne;' it's an in-joke, don't worry about it.
8.Mr Connell: Unless I'm mistaken he married the music teacher, Miss Fenny; is that right?
9.Mr Coates: The sports teacher. My dad thought he used to play for Hull City but got injured so had to teach instead. I asked 'Coatsey' if this was true, he was rather coy.
10.Mr Abraham: If I remember right, this teacher actually died. He was kinda old with a big beard. Hence his nickname, 'Father Abraham,' from the 'Smurfs.'