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THERE was a technical error in Memories 521, when we told of the Duke of Edinburgh’s visit to Durham on June 24, 1960. The pictures in the Echo archive have “Durham Technical School” written on the rear of them, and so we said that the duke visited Durham Johnston Grammar Technical School. “I attended that school from 1958 to 1965 but recalled no such visit,” says Glynn Wales. “On examining more closely the photograph, I noted a blazer badge which I failed to recognise and something which I regard as the major deficiency of my otherwise quite successful education at the School - namely the presence of girls (it was not until comprehensivisation in the 1970s that Durham Johnston became co-educational).” ....