Reaction to Vincent Finn’s photograph of St Bede’s Grammar School’s staff in the 1950s has been going on since it was published in the T&A on September 25.

Mr Finn, a keen follower of and occasional contributor to Remember When? said that would happen, and he was right.

For Mrs Marjorie Coates, of Harrogate Road, Bradford, the picture brought back memories of her father Fred Cudworth, who worked at St Bede’s for nearly 20 years.

Referring to the school’s teachers and secretarial staff in the photograph, Mrs Coates said: “My dad knew all of them because he worked there as a caretaker from 1953 to 1970. He loved his job and even went back there regularly after retirement to repair desks, chairs.”

Mrs Coates sent a couple of photos of Mr Cudworth. There he is in his baggy work overalls. In one picture he’s having a laugh with a white-coated teacher who appears to be slapping Fred’s hand with a stick of celery. In the other picture he’s contentedly smoking his pipe.

“It’s him to a T, as the saying goes,” said his daughter.

Fred Cudworth died in 1994 at the age of 90.