July 1947.  We sat the Oxford School Certificate in the Bean Library.  It was a hot summer, and I remember playing table tennis with Gordon and Ian at the home of John Tyler in between exams.  His parents had an upholstery  business at the top of Junction Road, and there was plenty of room for a table tennis table. I don't remember doing any swatting for the exams - we just took them in our stride, and we were so well taught that the exams were no problem for us.   I was in Science 5, and there was a great mix of subjects Maths, English, French and Latin, as well as English Literature, Chemistry, Physics and Geography.  We got the results in August, and I still have the certificate.