This old Greenock Academy photograph includes two pupils, Alan Blair and Tom Fyfe, who were to become local councillors.

The picture was handed in by Jim Millar and it is of his primary three class from 1946/47. Classmate George Patterson assisted with the names.

Shown back row, from left, are: Stanley Ashton, Jim Millar, Alan Blair, Billy Wilson, Tom Fyfe, John Nicol, Stewart Norwell, Brian Morrison and George Inglis.

Second back: Gillies Downie, Billy McMath, Frank Dunn, George Patterson, Ronald Higgs, John Blair, Robert Henderson, Stewart McMillan and Stanley Bacon.

Second front: Charles McKenzie, Maureen Smith, Morag Simpson, Avril Hodge, Naomi Freedman, Alison Brown, Jean Scott, Margaret McAlees and Eric Black.

Front: Sylvia McDowall, Alistair Smith, Moira Surtees, Ellen ?, Sheila McKay, Sally Nixon, Joan Slim, Joan Sutherland, Elizabeth Shields, George Swindells and Ishbel Miller.

Alan Blair was a founding partner of Blair and Bryden solicitors and Dr Tom Fyfe was a cardiologist. Both have now retired as Liberal Democrat councillors.

Alan's father and those of George Patterson and Margaret McAlees were dentists, and the fathers of Alison Brown, Elizabeth Shields and Stewart McMillan were doctors. George Inglis's father was minister of the Union Church.

Stewart became a teacher at the Academy, John Nicol was a minister and Stewart Norwell was a master mariner. Brian Morrison's father was managing director of the Greenock Dockyard Company and Frank Dunn's father, also Frank, owned The Gordon bar. A picture of Frank Dunn and The Gordon bar appeared on this page a few weeks ago.

Avril Hodge's family was connected with the Hodge house furnishers store, Sheila McKay's father was parks superintendent for Greenock and Naomi Freedman's father owned the King's Theatre (which later became the Odeon cinema). The Freedman family emigrated to America.

Tragically, Billy Wilson drowned while swimming in the Clyde when he was still a pupil at the Academy.