Mr Dave Edwards, whom many of you will know from his time as a local auctioneer, was a pupil at the school in the ’60’s. He now lives in Sarnau. He has this to say about his time at the school:

‘I went to Deytheur grammar school from 1959 to 1966. I was a day boy-and I think it cost my parents £5 a term for me to attend that school. I cycled to and from school-about 2 miles each way- but when I was 16 I could use my motorbike-an Excelsior 98 cc- top speed 45 miles an hour. There were about 15 day boys at that time and about 30 boarders, who came from all over the country. Just boys-no girls. During World war 2 there had been about 150 boarders- people from the cities wanted their children to go somewhere safe in the countryside. The school had a good reputation and a lot of influential people went there. When I was there there was the Headmaster Harold Fynn, his brother Sidney and an Irish teacher called Mr Dunne. It was Mr Fynn who put me in touch with Harry Ray- a company in Welshpool- which got me started on becoming an auctioneer-and I then sold livestock all around the local area for more than 40 years…….Deytheur old boys still have a reunion every July-although there aren’t that many of us left-I’m 74 and am probably the youngest there-but we enjoy meeting up and remembering the good times we had playing football and cricket on the sloping field opposite the school ……..having to get the ball from the ditch at the bottom…….’