Over half a century ago, Luton Grammar School indulged my adolescent fads by allowing me, as part of A-level Art, to make an architectural model - it was of Luton's yellow brick fire station (1956) - and to take the history of art paper, both, as far as I know, without precedent. It also paid for me to sit, without in-school tuition, A-level Archaeology. And here there were precedents: in 1952, James Dyer, a gifted amateur archaeologist and local historian, schoolteacher, and accomplished presenter of the subject to children and adults; in 1955, David Johnson, who pursued a distinguished academic career in archaeology; and in 1963, a certain David Kennett, who went on to study archaeology at undergraduate and post-graduate levels and to publish on the subject, although subsequently pursuing other interests, some of which will be evident to readers of these pages.
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