In Memoriam - a tribute to those lost from Grange Hill

In Memoriam - a tribute to those lost from Grange Hill, played at Grange Hill Memories 2 reunion event held on the 22nd May 2016

[@garysmith291]

Grange Hill was the best tv show for kids back in the 70s and 80s.they never show like that for kids now.our childmood memories,we like to say thank you. RIP XXXXXXXXX

[@Richard-fv7rq]

For all us GH fans born in the 60/70's, always sad to see our childhood memories brought back to this reality.

[@angelacooper2661]

Yes, I was born in 1970 and a shock to realise that some of one's contemporaries succumb to an early demise!

[@geemonster9179]

Everyone dies sooner or later, i can't believe i've reached the age of 53 after spending a long time on heroin, i'm clean now and have been for sometime other people live healthier lives and leave the game early, that's life

[@MarkSmith-er7fe]

@@angelacooper2661 you put it as though its funny

[@angelacooper2661]

​@@MarkSmith-er7feNo way, Mark. I find it quite shocking, actually. Years ago, whilst visiting a local cemetery where some relatives were buried, I came across the grave of a girl in my year at school who died of a fatal asthma attack. She was just nine months older than me and seeing the gravestone brought it home to me with considerable force. The event itself happened 21 years earlier, in 1985. So my previous remark was made with this in mind!!!

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[@dreamcatcher3622]

Well, that was genuinely heart rending. A bit like when you hear an old school friend has passed away. Which is exactly how it is - in a way we all went to Grange Hill.

[@rw8733]

Some of them must have died quite young. It was a big part of my childhood. 😢

[@chathamabs2011]

So true. Sometimes I find it quite painful and sigh l, some look back and laugh at those days.

[@Shelsight]

Yep, hadn’t thought about it that way, but you expressed it so well. We all did go to Grange Hill.

[@angelacooper2661]

During my time at senior school, a girl in my year died of a fatal asthma attack. It was 1985 and I was just fifteen - the girl in question was only nine months older than me. I found out because an old relative told me during the school holidays. Incidentally, I am asthmatic and now fifty one!

[@truth901]

Mr Bronson.....the most memorable teacher from the good old days of Grange Hill. 😥

[@Marvellous132]

Terry Sue Pat was a local guy in Leyton, East London. I used to see him all the time, and the last time was at a festival in Walthamstow where the Brand New Heavies headlined. He was such a nice guy, so personable and was very knowledgeable about acting. Used to quote Shakespeare and all sorts of things. He is really missed.

[@justerinibrookes1922]

Better times in the 80s☺God Bless Them All❤

[@michaelknight8149]

Will always miss the autumn winter days coming home from school passing the shop with the standard firework guy fawks poster thinking Grange hills on soon 😪

[@wutang6020]

Michael knight you nailed thet memory right on the head 👌 happy happy days mate 👍

[@allanmccullough2669]

Man that is a proper memory takes me back great days indeed

[@kerry3355]

I remember The Good old days ;)

[@genesis1765]

It was jackonary then newsround with john craven then Grange Hill @ 5:05. Yeah those days...

[@bp6329]

wrong order

[@crystalinabacteria3430]

Omg this was part of my history ! Getting home from school to watch this. It was so like my school !! ❤❤❤❤love to all who are my age & watched it❤❤❤❤

[@vordman]

Michael Sheard as Mr Bronson was brilliant. Sheard was a fantastic character actor.

[@pachma405]

Herr Grunwald

[@mekonta]

Lovely fellow, he stayed over at my place once when he made a trip up to visit my local Doctor Who fan group.

[@martinnaylor]

Yes a brilliant actor, Star Wars,Indiana Jones and Auf Weidersehn Pet to name a few.

[@austinraftery7744]

Yes, Mr. Sheard was a wonderful actor. May he rest in peace.

[@allothernamesbutthis]

as a character and the way played out on a par with both mrs fergusons from cell block h and wentworth :)

[@ForViewingOnly]

What a memorable cast. It made me sad that some died way too young. Rest in Peace, and thank you for giving us such a wonderful TV series.

[@HighTen_Melanie]

Heartbreaking losing old friends. Great memories. RIP.

[@lornemalvo201]

Thanks for this moving tribute. It's like a reminder to enjoy life while we still have it. Best wishes.

[@simongray7620]

so very true, stay safe...

[@BeatleBeat1]

I'm so glad people take the time to post things like this. It's very much appreciated. Do the cast members understand how much of a statement they were of those times. I hope they do. I feel even more closer to them than my own REAL classmates at school now.

[@Keepingitrespectfulmostly.]

I was born in 67 Used to watch G H all the time.. Wouldn't miss an episode.. I had a monster crush on Miss Mooney in a pent up Librarian kind of way..

[@MrMallorcaboy]

mooney the loony. i had a crush on miss summers.

[@rde4017]

Michael Sheard - absolute legend. RIP x

[@Dreamchaser68]

Such warm memories of my youth watching Grange Hill.So sad to know these bright lights have gone out.R.I.P.🙏🏻❤️

[@jeremyslaney5644]

A most beautifully done tribute. I would regard the deaths of Laura Sadler and Terry Sue-Patt as the saddest, out of all the Grange Hill characters that are sadly no longer with us

[@ianhirst1148]

Am d the teacher Miss Mooney as she was only about 40 when she died.

[@rodgeyd6728]

GH was the highlight of our childhood TV, sad to see the passing away of the younger actors. Could you do the video with dates and causes of death, not for morbid reasons , more a understanding of there sad loss.

[@jockmcglashan6149]

So sad that these wonderful actors & actresses are no longer with us!

[@dizmop]

I used to see Joanne Kenny after she left Grange Hill at a secretary school in Ilford. Life is so unpredictable

[@mazmik]

Such a lot of the cast gone. And they all seem way too young. Brilliant programme

[@levibowden]

Only just finished watching the 2 DVD (Series 1,2,3,4) releases of Grange Hill recently. Wanted to watch the episodes I didn't see the first time around. I started watching in 1984 until probably 1990. Didn't realize so many of those faces I've just seen are no longer with us. RIP x

[@levibowden]

That's great news! Probably just missed 5 & 6 as well so will add them to the other DVD sets and then watch all the other episodes on here. Thanks!

[@jayforr6964]

Levi Bowden series 7 and 8 out soon on dvd

[@bobbyjones3351]

omg didn't know Benny passed away he was one of my favourite characters when I was a kid, like Benny we had no money and relied on free school meals and hand me downs RIP Benny nice touching memorial post well done

[@gerv55]

"Benny Green" was apparently dead for close to a month in his flat before being found. Sad way to go 😔

[@paulmcdonough1093]

idiot comment bad karma on its way to you

[@servantprince]

fortunately he didnt realize it

[@the_useless_photographer]

Yeah and I remember some cast members coming out the woodwork claiming to be his shocked friend...check on your friends!

[@johnrider5701]

That's a sad reflection on our society.

[@winniepeg2020]

I remember reading that his family didn't even check on him😢

[@prben2]

They were some great convincing characters from Grange Hill, especially the earlier series from the late 1970s early 1980s.

[@nickmullerITFC78]

R.I.P, ALL OF THEM

[@THEBIGMANGY]

Remember as a kid growing up with Grange Hill growing up in northern Ireland best thing we had. I can remember bumping into faye lucas when we was in the lakeside shopping centre in England made my Yr so it did.

[@TheBlackcular]

Joanne Kenny was so beautiful

[@ginoterminielloroyaloaktre3452]

How did she die ?

[@TheBlackcular]

@@ginoterminielloroyaloaktre3452 I believe alcoholism same as Terry Sue Pat (Benny Green)

[@cuddlybear4108]

This makes me feel emotional. So many on this list are gone too soon. May they rest in peace.

[@BillyBigTop]

Just found this tonight while searching for some Grange Hill stuff!.... cant believe some of the losses, i didnt realize Denzil Kilvington had left us or Lucinda Gane, Joann Kenny, Adam Ray as well! so sad!! :(

[@marykikday7374]

BillyBigTop

[@marykikday7374]

BillyBigTop gu

[@sin5284]

How adam ray die

[@OfficiallySanctionedKATG]

Yeah Denzil was my brothers friend. He died in 2000 i think. Such a shame. I remember him coming round to ours when i was little (him and my brother are a lot older than me but i do remember him) and every now ad then i catch a glimpse of him in something i might not have seen him in before. Ill always remember him for the woodpecker cider advert though. So funny..

[@sketch591]

Happy times....Thanks for the memories RIP.

[@janemitchell1028]

So sad that Mark Farmer has gone, he was brilliant as Gary Hargreaves.

[@sarahfarmer1257]

jane mitchell he’s my uncle unfortunately he lost his battle to cancer in 2016

[@alanknotts1844]

Mark also had some memorable performances in Minder, RIP mate.

[@dazauto1400]

He will always be Johnny Jarvis RIP.

[@TheRowlandstone73]

Ok, THAT is just genuinely weird!! This video just appeared in my recommended section and the thumbnail of Joann Kenny reminded me of a dream I had last night in which I met her and started chatting with her on a train!! In the dream, I knew she was the Grange Hill actress, but didn't mention it, and I remember she was really nice and very easy to talk to! Her character was in the same year as me in school when I used to watch it in the late 80s. I'd no idea she'd passed away. RIP Joann. It was nice chatting with you!

[@jaseegee9293]

@Steve Rose well said little big man I guess someone like yourself doesn't dream when you don't have a brain and just a bag of cotton wool between your ears as a brain🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👍

[@robertwhiteside6294]

So very sad, but an incredible piece of music. Emotional. Back in the days when you'd make sure you where sitting in front of the TV, when Grange Hill was on. No recording, no repeats, no mobile phones, no KZbin, just a better time...

[@50018Resolution]

Can't believe Joann Kenny isn't with us anymore, we were the same age, sleep peacefully my beautiful Princess. Xxx ❤

[@stuart73m]

50018Resolution She was good in it, do you have any idea how what she died from?

[@zaftra]

@@stuart73m She fell from a balcony.

[@snapdragogon69]

No that was the other girl - Laura Sadler@@zaftra

[@zaftra]

@@snapdragogon69 Had another dig around, a few commentng on here are refering to multiple organ failue following alcoholic poisoning; whether that is right I cannot confirm. kzbin.info/www/bejne/eXWwg62imc59ibs

[@themadmgtow5196]

@@stuart73m alcoholism related

[@ShandySteve]

A very moving tribute - fondly remembered actors from the great days of Grange Hill!

[@ericgeorge5483]

So desperately sad that the younger ones have passed away as they can't have been any older than me.

[@ks-qu4kj]

they live on in their work in this great series that was part of our growing up life...

[@kevpage]

It’s lovely, and bittersweet to look back at our memories. We have all gained and lost, but we carry on and shine our light, as those before us did, even in the darkest days.

[@craigdoran6811]

Bronson....legend

[@paulwhilton7197]

Always will be in our hearts home from school grange hill tuesday and fridays brilliant good old days

[@chathamabs2011]

Nostalgia definition: a feeling of pleasure and also slight sadness when you think about things that happened in the past: Some people feel nostalgia for their schooldays. Hearing that song again filled him with nostalgia. a wave (= sudden strong feeling) of nostalgia

[@jayforr6964]

Sean Arnold who played Mr. Llewelyn past away last month 15th April 2020 . Lovely guy had the pleasure of meeting him once

[@glenncooney3959]

Joann & Laura’s passings certainly hit me. Looking at all that Joann did in her career (including a Sindy ad in 1981 and she did a couple of music videos for Mobiles (Drowning in Berlin) and OMD (Genetic Engineering) she was just amazing and of course she did Curse of Fenric (Doctor Who). Michael Sheard was in his late 60’s when he died. RIP to all these wonderful souls.

[@PhilReynoldsLondonGeek]

Adam Ray who played Tom Brisley was one of my favourite characters. I hadn't heard that he had died.

[@donnataylor1631]

God brings memories back loved Grange hill

[@Arcradia]

R.I.P All of the Got great memories of some of them especially Michael Sheard, Joann Kenny, Hilary Crane and Terry Sue- Patt a very fitting song to 😊😊

[@aquaboy68]

mark farmer as johnny jarvis..... early 80s nostalgic tv... R. I. P MARK...

[@stingray4real]

Justin in 'Minder '

[@johnbarry1965]

Where's the guy that played Alan Lipton nowadays?

[@Jcw-ls1kg]

RIP to all those past away from Grange hill 💔💔🙏🙏

[@David-n1z5o]

Loved grange hill big part of growing up god bless all ❤

[@Funkstar124]

I'm 55 next month and it reminds me of the class mates and teachers at my High School that have now gone. Some went way too young. Leon Wellings - died at 16 when he got a Motorbike that was too big for him to handle (he was a short guy) and he crashed it into a lamp post in Cradley Heath in the West Midlands. Also Wayne "Bodger" Garrett who used to sit next to me in class - a truly lovely guy who rode Speedway bikes for Cradley Heathens - a young legend who had an accident in a race where he spun off the bike like a helicopter and ended up with a massive brain bleed. In a coma for a while and died of Pneumonia and never woke. Others have gone but it makes you realise that you ain't done too bad to have gotten this far. Yes, in those days, we ALL went to a Grange Hill with its' ups and downs. My best mate and I used to run the Tuck Shop which was a private room with serving hatches that we used to open on breaks. We used to get the School hard knocks coming around trying to bully us into giving them Outerspacers and Mojos. Once they broke in and booted the serving hatch door in - dumb asses left a specific boot print on the door which led the teachers back to that kid! Oh, the days! Oh, and don't forget there was always one kid who was an arsonist who, in our case, set fire to the massive curtains that were on the stage in the assembly hall! Shame they managed to put the fire out!

[@alphabetaxenonzzzcat]

Now poor Mrs. McClusky is no longer with us. RIP.

[@BrianClarke-qf4vo]

Or big Alan humpries

[@gregmcfarnon1140]

​@@BrianClarke-qf4voBig Alan gone? Surely not.

[@lewis72]

Although still sad, it is less surprising that the actors & actresses who played teachers back then are no longer with us. It was around 40 years ago or so that they were on TV, which could have made them in their 70s or older by now.

[@sarahblunden4372]

Mr Griffiths and Mr McKenzie have since left us, Mr McKenzie only very recently 😢

[@Jasonm25870]

I met Joann Kenny in 1990 at a Doctor Who convention, she was a guest actor in a four parter called The Curse of Fenric

[@jimmybisk]

Wow! So sad. It's kind of hard to leave a like but it's a very moving tribute & that's why I left one. I can understand with some of those who were getting on a bit at the time but the chap who played Cathy Hargreaves brother & the girl who played Jane Bishop! Really?! May they all rest in peace.

[@Semi0ffGrid7]

Denzel Kilvington was such a great friend and so funny. I miss him so much, I wish I had spent more time with him!

[@GrangeHillFansBuzzingRocks]

Wonderful tribute! ❤

[@danmorley6517]

Everyone saying it was great in the 70's/80's it was also excellent in the 90's.

[@barjumbo1969]

That, the, older, characters have died is no surprise - they're older! But, it's heartbreaking when you see the kids. Especially, Benny and Jane Bishop (My experience with 'GH' covered the period when they were on it). So, very, sad! 😪😞

[@lewissparrow7417]

Oh how I miss watching Grange Hill it was such a brilliant programme and they don't make them like that anymore which is a great shame. I never missed an episode once I got into watching it. I can remember Mr Bronson that's how old I am! I used to find myself worrying about certain characters and they had such brilliant and very talented actresses and actors. It was sad to see my all time favourite Grange Hill star Laura Sadler who was also in Holby City and a film called Intimate Relations with Julie Walters and Rupert Graves. Laura and I were basically pen pals, I would write to her and she would write back saying what she liked about the shows she was in. I used to watch her on Grange Hill and think she was going to be a big star she had that extra something about her. She was a wonderful actress, very kind and very funny too. I got invited to a special do they did for her after she died where there was lots of famous people there who knew her. It was in a theatre (there was a few from Grange Hill there) and they showed film footage of Laura and they shared stories about her. She was an awesome young lady gone far too young xxx

[@jaynieblueyes2270]

So sad 😢 God Bless Rest in peace 🙏🏻 🕊️ xxxx

[@sofia-hk2gj]

Benn and Garry really got me emotional

[@markgreet3543]

Shocking I'm feeling sad 😥 but respect to them great actors and actress

[@tuesdaydelaney4480]

Grange Hill loves it ❤

[@TheBlackcular]

I wish someone would invent a time machine!

[@johnnyretro1975]

Back in the days when the bbc was respected not anymore nice video great childhood memories there

[@spikeybevan]

Very well put together, I had no idea of any of them so bittersweet memories. Nice to pay my respects.

[@geoffjoffy]

I remember their faces so well.

[@bigearedmouse17]

You expect the Teachers to be Dead but not some of the Kids ?

[@garyw1971]

It was 40 years ago.. we are all old now😨

[@craigdiascd]

bigearedmouse17 Laura Sadler fell over a Balcony after taking Cocaine about 10 years ago 🙈

[@dothedog2268]

@@craigdiascd She didn't just say no then

[@simonegodwin7449]

Terry Sue-Scott died by sucide

[@simonegodwin7449]

Sorry I meant Terry Sue-Patt

[@funnyfailvids1462]

I'm only 10 and my mam wached this and I'm obsessed

[@CristianoRonaldo-ok9pq]

Lewys Phillips same

[@jasoncox2052]

Because these kind of TV programs are so much better than anything today.

[@meisterlymanu5214]

Joann KENNY really? My era, and i always had a crush on her. She went to drama school and was interviewed by the gorgeous Jenny Powell on her tour of the school for a Sat morning kids TV show back in the 80s. She did ballet and all sorts. Very sad news.

[@therespectedlex9794]

Was she the gypsy (traveller) girl?

[@darryllharden9141]

@@therespectedlex9794 No that gypsy travelling girl you reffered to was Helen McDonagh who played Mary in series 16 in 1993 youre probably thinking of!.

[@glenncooney3959]

@@therespectedlex9794 She played Jane Bishop in the same year group as Calley, Ronnie, Gonch and Trevor Cleaver to name a few. She was in Grange Hill between 1985 and 1988. She also featured in the music videos Genetic Engineering by OMD, Drowning in Berlin by Mobiles and Real Men by Joe Jackson. She was also in the Doctor Who story Curse of Fenric.

[@Natterz101]

Just recently read up on IMDB, Sadly, Chris Crookall, who played Andy Turner in series 26-30 passed away October last year. RIP and thoughts and prayers for his family and friends 🙏

[@mikmac220]

Lovely but sad does brings a tear or two. Do remember such a good tv show from times gone by

[@paulwalker2401]

Didn't know about mark farmer .saw him a few times in minder... R. I. P.

[@malcolmcarpet]

One of the Prime Suspects as well I think.

[@AldershotDave]

Great video. It would be interesting to know how they died.

[@Eurobrasil550]

Very sad to see so many have died, where most of those who played the teachers, especialy the senior ones would have been a fair age, It's quite shocking to see the number who must have passed relatively young.

[@rosserman2501]

An iconic programme.

[@quotagious]

I'm going to have to stop watching these kind of video's it hurts to much to think these people have passed which was part of my childhood :(

[@singin8324]

Beautiful tribute.

[@mikmac220]

A great song to those in the best tv show ever

[@Remmy_Swag]

That's so sad! Old Mitch is gone too

[@paulo-bd8so]

RIP to all the lost cast of grange hill !!! you to Mr Bronson :)

[@stlucky8925]

Miss you: Mr Keating Mrs Jenkins Mrs Yates Mr Mitchell 😢

[@janysmahoney5257]

and the LESSON f today is...APPRECIATE wot u got,cos when it's gone ,y WILL end up 40yrs L8ta in..LOCKDOWN. C.U.ALL Beautiful song

[@allanbuttery5297]

Joann Kenny in the OMD Video Genetic Engineering.

[@Chalkster1]

That’s yer childhood great memories and this so sad to see

[@MrDavros-qb2lj]

This was very moving, especially the "pupils" who have left us. Michael Sheard was great, I didn't recognise Mark farmer, who later played "Justin" in several episodes of Minder.

[@tungstenkid2271]

Mr. McGuffy was my favourite teech in Grange Hill, he was young and a bit hippyish and the kids affectionately called him 'Scruffy McGuffy'. Eventually the headmistress told him to spruce himself up a bit and he seemed to goodnaturedly comply..:)

[@themadmgtow5196]

The actor who played him is as far as I'm aware still alive

[@stephenbrown1622]

Joann Kenny was the saddest of all I still have tears when her picture comes up she was In a an OMD video

[@BuzzingRocks]

Brilliant tribute and very well edited. 🙂

[@janysmahoney5257]

Forever in r Hearts.PARTED in Life but 2Getha in DEATH.Luv u all.

[@oddities-whatnot]

Life can be so cruel.

[@stuart73m]

Andy Jones Doesn't make sense! You must have misspelled the sentence

[@paulapoetry]

Mr. Bronson and Miss Mooney are dead IRL? I had no idea. I knew about Joann/Jane, and Benny - so tragic. Series 9 was the golden age for me. 💝

[@MrMallorcaboy]

series 9 would have had gonch and ziggy in them then, they were classic characters.

[@paulapoetry]

@@MrMallorcaboy It did. 😃💝

[@krishnan-resurrection714]

R I P Laura Sadler .....❤

[@rowanc88]

Laura Sadler is the one that hits hardest for me still.

[@Seanryan2001]

Very sad. Some of them died so young.

[@apowerfulflower]

Very chilling fact to know that Laura Sadler and her character died in similar circumstances. 😳

[@stingray4real]

Not forgetting George A Cooper 'Mr Griffiths ' and Anna Quayle 'Miss Munro'

[@RNC200711]

Mr. Griffiths not being there was quite shocking considering how long he was on the show

[@kevinmottram9491]

Miss Munro (Anna Quayle) was in the Beatles Movie 'A Hard Days Night'.

[@stingray4real]

Both of them appeared in the Swinging 60s comedy film Smashing Time.

[@stingray4real]

RIP Sean Arnold who played Grange Hill Headmaster Mr Llewellyn 1941-2020

[@davidirving9242]

@@RNC200711 He died after this video was made, thats why hes not there!

[@jeremyslaney5644]

Louise Plowright-I have a feeling that she appeared in EastEnders in the late 80s or early 90s,as the character, Julie Cooper

[@09weenic]

Yes she did - lovely looking lady