Bluecoats School, Nottingham in the mid 1980's

[dolphin67]

I am looking for people who went to the Bluecoats school around 1984. The people who I am trying to contact are - Alex Darling Neville Insley (Arnold) Richard Dunlop Mark Stainsby Andrew Tetley Simon Ripley David Morris If this is you or you know any of these people then I would be really greatful if you could put them in touch with me as I am trying to arrange a surprise for a special occaision.

[spudqueen]

Have you tried friendsreunited? More chance on there than on here I would think.

[dolphin67]

Yes I've already been on there and have found quite a lot of people that I wanted to contact, there are just these last few people and so with nothing to loose I thought that I would try on here, you never know someone may be looking in and see their name or someone who knows them.

[spudqueen]

Have you also tried 'googling' their names? Eg there is a PC Neville Insley http://www.ripleyandheanornews.co.uk/viewartic le.aspx?sectionid=797&articleid=652931
and an Alex Darling
http://www.nsandi.com/press-room/press-release s/pr2004272.jsp

Both with contact numbers/e-mails. Could be worth a try.

Also, you could look in the phone book and see if their parents are still at their old addresses. I left school in 1978 and it's amazing how many peoples parents still live where they did then!

[dolphin67]

Thanks for that I have had a look and make contact with Neville although he is up in Scotland, but the other names do come up but are not the right people. Unfortunately all these people are listed on the Friends reunited site but they registered some years ago and have obviously changed their emails and forgotten to update this on the site. Of course this means that the messages I've sent don't get through.

[Oakleaf51]

If I register with "Friends Reunited," does that mean that every Tom, Dick and Harry from my past automatically gets my e mail address and personal details? I'd love to have a browse, but I might regret it.

[dolphin67]

No not at all. You put in your details and then your name goes on your year list with all the other people who were in the same year as you. If someone wants to contact you then they have to subscribe and pay �7.50. They can then send you a message but they don't get your email address, the message stays on the site and you get a notice to your email address saying someone has sent a message to the site. You can then choose if you want to give that person your email, but the only way that some would get your email is if you gave it to them.

[NJOK]

Oakleaf, they don't get to see your email address.

I just entered a fake name so that I could browse.