I was christened in St Andrew’s by Canon Beard who is commemorated in Beard Road in Ham. I didn’t go there to the Sunday School. Really, it was my husband who decided to leave Duke Street and we transferred to St Andrews.  Our children went to the Sunday school and my husband has been in the church choir for getting on for 40 years. He still is in the choir. I was on the parochial church council for 17 years, doing the minutes, of course.

When my daughter was at the bottom of the school, there was a little girl called Grace whose father was the curate at St Andrew’s.   He is now the Archbishop of York. I wonder if the Archbishop of York ever bumps into Lord Kinnock in the House of Lords and they talk about Latchmere School.