Dave (John)ralph And Brian Hawkhead-Blog Comments

I cannot wax poetical about the late Dave (John)Ralph and Brian Hawkhead. All I can feel is great sadness at their loss. They were both great friends to me and many others. Both had hearts of gold. Both were alleged to have committed suicide back in the 1970s or early 1980s. They were very young. In fact they never met one another, not on this Earth anyway.

Dave was a teaching colleague of mine at Thorne Grammar School, Doncaster, South Yorkshire. We were rookie teachers, in the trenches together. I recall going on holiday to North Wales with him and another teacher called John Lindley. John unwound too quickly and got very depressed, but Dave eventually brought him round. As young teachers the older staff warned us that the kids there could steamroller such as us, and they often did. Dave and John were great sources of support in those hard days.
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