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-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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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.
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!
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 😪
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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!! :(
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..
@@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. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CDMRzldiJSY.html
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.
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.
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 RU-vid, just a better time...
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.
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!
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.
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
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! 😪😞
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!
@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🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂😂👍
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
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.
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 No that gypsy travelling girl you reffered to was Helen McDonagh who played Mary in series 16 in 1993 youre probably thinking of!.
@@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.
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 🙏
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..:)
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.
Joann Kenny Born: 1971 Died: 2009 (age: 38)... Joann Kenny (Jean) Feb 11 1972 to Jan 3 2010 (multiple organ failure, pneumonia and alcoholic liver disease*) Career highlights Joann will perhaps be best remembered for playing Jane Bishop in school drama Grange Hill between 1985-88; Facts As part of the Grange Hill cast she appeared on the Just Say No anti-drugs single in 1986, which peaked at number 5 on the chart. She apparently appeared on Dr Who but I can't confirm this at this time.
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.
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.
