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Sir Thomas Allen Nominator:Julie Brookes Category: Entertainment Tom was brought up in Benevente Street, Seaham and was a pupil at Ryhope Grammar School. There's lots of information about Tom on the internet including singing venues, personal and promotional material. RECOLLECTIONS OF TOM ALLEN
I have one of those wide school photographs which was taken at Ryhope Grammar
School in 1957. We all looked very different then but you can still
recognise Tom and Dennis Weatherley, a physics teacher at the school. Dennis
was, and still is I believe, a well-known Northern folk singer - he did a
brilliant "Cushy Butterfield". Dennis was the man who spotted
Tom's singing talent. I can remember he spent endless lunch-time and after-school
sessions coaching Tom who was an excellent singer even then.Ed Mason,25th,September 2002, mace@daltonet.com |