"OLD Ellistonions" of the post-war period are wanted for the cohort's 30th annual reunion.
Students from the Elliston Secondary Modern School for Boys will meet again at the Carr Lane Social Club on Monday, April 29.
The reunion is for pupils who attended the school from 1945 to 1955 – or there abouts – and its the 30th of its kind since starting up in 1983.
Organiser Pete Blanchard, 79, of Brookfield Road, Scartho, believes the reunions have been such a success because in tough times, you make friends for life.
He added: "It was just after the war – everyone had lost someone. Every family had been affected and there wasn't much money about.
"But, in such hard times, you make really good friends and we have remained that way ever since.
"People who have organised other reunions always ask how the Old Ellistonions have stayed so close and I think that must be why."
The first reunion was in 1983 at Clee Park Hotel and has moved to the Crow's Nest pub in Cleethorpes and later to the Carr Lane Social Club – when it started to get a huge following.
At its height, nearly 100 people turned out and even last year, more than 70 went to the event – despite the men now being in their 70s and 80s.
There are even two teachers – one of them being Mr Winter, now in his 90s, who does card tricks to entertain his old pupils.
Mr Blanchard added: "He's quite spritely still and says he can't remember what he did that morning, but recalls exactly what we used to during our old school days."
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For more information, please call Peter on 01472 879082 or email him at peter.blanchard3@ntlworld.com.
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