While some St Mary’s old boys might well be described as dependable or diligent or determined, words like disruptive, dilatory or derisive might just as easily be applied to others. Which could only mean one thing of course – detention!

Which is a rather laboured way of saying I’ve added the list of ‘Ds’ to the old boys, er, directory.

And among the list are some well known, popular St Mary’s families like the Damer boys who arrived at St Mary’s from St Vincent’s Primary in Mottingham in 1970, 1974 and 1976 in the shape of Tony, John and Peter, respectively.

Then there was the Duncan family, from Sidcup with Neil, Hugh and Mark arriving at the school in close succession in 1968, 1969 and 1971 as well as Milton, Valentine and Ken D’Rosario who arrived in 1969, 1971 and 1974.

The list also includes Patrick Dunleavy, arguably the most intellectually gifted boy to attend the school. The future Professor of Policy at the London School of Economics arrived at St Mary’s in 1963 and whose A-Level results which propelled him into Oxford on a scholarship take some beating.

And then there is the amazing Christopher Doran (1964 to 1969) one of the truly great characters in St Mary’s history, not to mention 50s pupil, Julian Dowle, one of the country’s leading garden designers who has won ten gold medals at the Chelsea Flower Show.

There’s a couple of good rugby players from the 1960s here too. Patrick Demwell who arrived in 1959 and Lech Dziewulski.

I stumbled across an old report in the Sidcup and Kentish Times about a home match against HMS Worcester, the Thames Nautical Training College, which was based on the Thames at Greenhithe.

The report, from November 1965, says the game was played in dreadful weather on the bottom pitch at St Mary’s and is headlined Mr Boot Dziewulski Sinks Ship and praises Lech’s kicking in a 21-0 victory which also included tries from Firth, Demwell, Sharp and Keenan (just three points for a try back then).

Lech started at the school in 1959. Last on the list is Ian Dziewulski who started in 1963. You should never assume anything but might they be brothers? Perhaps someone can confirm.

As you know, I like to be ‘definitive!’