Simon Crowcroft's

Missing Persons File

Have you bumped into any of the following people? Yes, I know it's a big world but it's getting smaller, innit? Pics, where possible, will follow when I get another scanner.

William James Crowcroft

My elder brother, last spotted in Weston super Mare, Avon, England. Age 39. Hair - what's left of it - curly, light brown or blonde. About 5'11" tall, slim and strong, and handsome, like me I guess. Fond of travelling. We had a Christmas Card but nothing else for the past few years.

Message: the fatted calf has got BSE and may have to be slaughtered before your homecoming.

Malcolm Mackenzie-King

I was sent to boarding school when I was nine :'''-( The school of my parents choice was Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, South Australia; the year was 1967. Mac was short, probably still is, with straight blonde hair but a warped sense of humour. We got on well, saving each other from the clutches of the perverts in the dormitory - after lights-out "rooting" (Aus. slang) was their favourite pastime - and from the slipper or cane of the sadistic housemasters. We lost touch when my family came back to foggie Englande a year later.

Annie Hall (nee Ann Bramley)

read Keats to me in the summer of 1975, when I was at Canford School.

Message: I still have the Penguin Book of Contemporary Verse you gave me with the inscription that I was too timid or too stupid to respond to.

More missing persons to follow soon - watch this space!!!