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George Spellar was his name. Taught me how to tune a guitar, at St Mark's Youth Club in 1964. Think he might've been expelled from KBGS. Anyway, if he was, it didn't do him any harm. He wound up working for the BBC in Leeds I think. As far as I can tell, he still lives in Keighley and is involved with the Flagcrackers Morris Dancers.
I learnt of the fire in deepest Middlesex on the 9 p.m. (wireless) news of the BBC on the day following the event. At that distance I did not expect to be further informed, although I felt sympathy for the kids whose education could have been so interrupted. The news I heard spoke only of damage to the "municipal" building and its clock.
I believe the lad's name was Peter George, but he went as "George" among the peer group at school. No idea which is the correct spelling (no pun intended!) of the surname, but he was indeed a clergyman's son.
I remember his guitar playing and unconventional approach to authority, but expelled......?