If you took your O Levels or CSEs at Kingsbridge Comprehensive School in 1973, then you are invited to a reunion this month.

The class of ‘73 are all turning 60 this academic year and they are getting together for a school reunion on May 27.

Alison Tarneberg, née Harmer, said: “A picture in the Gazette a few years ago made a couple of us think; let’s try to get together when we are 60. This has proved quite difficult, due to people moving away and changing names.

“So although we have got quite a few of us together there are lots still to reach. This is a last call for any stragglers. There is a Facebook group and an email address, so if you know someone, or are that someone, please get in touch. Teachers are welcome too.

“Take yourself back to 1973. David Bowie, The Rolling Stones, T.Rex, Roxy Music, Fleetwood Mac… the list goes on. We were the lucky generation with the best music. Maybe everyone says that, but I think that we really were.

“We also had great parties: Boat house dances, The Kings Arms dances most weeks, where a band would do covers of all the best tunes; ‘Born to be Wild’, ‘All Right Now’, ‘Paranoid’, etc. When we were a bit younger, we went to the Youth Club which was under the old cinema.

“The cinema is now the Bingo Hall and Social Club. Some of us went to the Dolphin Swimming club which took us to Dartmouth every week, the trip there and back was part of the fun, and then we would come back for ‘chips and bits’.

“Back then we didn’t have mobile phones, Facebook or email but we managed to meet up anyway, word soon spread if there was a party or gathering.

“At school we would wear our skirts high and our platform shoes high. We didn’t always get away with it and Miss Lorenz would haul us in to have our skirts measured above the knee; only to be rolled up as soon as we’d left her office.

“The school in those days was split into two sites, one for the lower school based at Fosse Road, and one for upper and sixth form, where the current school now is.

“School lunches were terrible; I still have nightmares about semolina pudding with jam in the middle, and mash potato with green lumps in. But school itself was quite good fun.

“There was a teacher who made us all sand the graffiti off our desks and re-varnish them, which was an excellent lesson. Punishments often included collecting litter, another good lesson. One teacher would make us bunny hop across the floor if we got something wrong and gave us a Polo mint if we got it right. There was lousy careers advice, especially for girls; I am sure that has improved!

“After taking our exams, in the following September there was a tragedy which affected a lot of us very deeply. Our very good friend, Gill Cload, was killed in a car crash. We didn’t have counselling and had to deal with it in our own ways and our childhood ended abruptly. Some of us went our separate ways and some of us remained in touch.

“A lot of people have stayed in the area, lots retire there and some, like me, visit regularly because it is such a beautiful part of the world.

“Time really does fly; it doesn’t seem that long ago. Some of us left straight after the exams to work in banks, become nurses or go to Art School but quite a few stayed on for the sixth form to do A Levels in the new building, which is now old! ?“Either way it would be great to see everyone again, so do try and come along.”

You can find the group on Facebook: ‘O Levellers of 73 Unite!’ or you can email: [email protected]