The summer of 1962 was an eventful time to be alive.

People feared there would be a third world war as the Cuban Missile Crisis inched closer to disaster.

Martin Luther King was arrested and jailed in Georgia.

Prime Minister Harold McMillan headed the Night of the Long Knives in a major cabinet reshuffle while in the background scandal was developing in the Profumo affair.

In sport, Pele's Brazil won the World Cup for the second time in a row in Chile.

Australian Rod Laver won Wimbledon for the third leg of his first tennis Grand Slam.

Leigh reached the Challenge Cup quarter final but Wakefield Trinity won at Wembley.

In pop music we were just three months away from The Beatles, while No 1 hits came from Elvis, Ray Charles, and B Bumble and The Stingers.

And at Leigh Grammar School the boys of 5C, their GCE O levels completed, took their first nervous strides into the wide open world.

Now, through the efforts of two of those teenagers – Glyn Chadwick and David Hodgkinson, now in their 70s – the 5C class is together again.

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Leigh Grammar School’s 2C class on their 1959 summer trip to see the famous ship The Galatea in dock at Liverpool

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Their first meeting was back in April at The Thomas Burke Wetherspoon pub on Leigh Road and since then they have met there monthly.

"It’s amazing, just catching up after more than half a century," said Glyn.

So far around a third of the class, which is around 30 pupils, have been at the celebrations.

Glyn and David joined by Jimmy Birchall, Geoff Brunt, Ray Urbani, Norman Isherwood, Frank Chamberlain, John Shea, David Horrocks and Barry Sloan.

David said: "Sadly, we have just lost Barry.

"But he made our first reunion and that meant so much to him and to us."

Another ex-pupil, Lawrence Grundy, went to the funeral and is now part of the group.

Glyn said: "We are trying to find others from the class.

"If you’re out there please join us."

The group meet on the third Wednesday of each month, mostly at the Thomas Burke pub.

For more information contact Glyn on 07708 926604 or David on 07818 133345.