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I should like to thank all those who have responded to my requests for information on Faraday High School.  I am still conducting my research.  Today I spent an entire afternoon in the British Library in Colindale going through microfiche copies of the DAILY TELEGRAPH from March 1977.  The Panorama documentary was covered in great depth.  Unfortunately it served only to increase my curiosity about the place, and the following questions have sprung to mind:What became of the headmaster, Ed Jones?  I gather he moved to a comprehensive in Suffolk not long after the documentary.  He was said to be 52 in 1977, which would make him 83 now.  Does anyone know if he is still alive and, if so, where he is now?  And does anyone have any recollection of his management style?Am I correct that the King Fahad Academy now stands on the site of Faraday High?  And are the original classrooms still there?Did anyone find out who had burnt down the prefab classroom 30 minutes after the documentary ended?  The TELEGRAPH reports talk about two teenage boys seen running from the school minutes after the blaze started.  Does anyone know what caused it and if anyone was punished as a result?  Was its timing just after the documentary just coincidental, as the headmaster claimed?The TELEGRAPH reporters interviewed a policeman after the documentary, who said that Faraday High School did nothing more than mirror the street-level reality of East Acton and that he had moved out of the area to ensure that his children went to  school with a better class of people.  That runs counter to what several respondents to my original posting have told me.  Was East Acton really that bad in the '70s?  And it it really that bad now?  I live about 8 miles away in Kenton and was living even further away (in Bucks) at the time of the documentary, so I have never really explored the area until now.  It doesn't look all that bad, although I stand to be corrected by those in the  know.  Did anyone move out of East Acton as a result of the PANORAMA documentary to get their children into a better school?  If so, to where?  And with what effect on their children's education?As ever I would be grateful for any information that anyone has.

David Lawes ● 6486d