From: Bill Potts
Date: 2001-08-04
Time: 14:36:03 -0400
I wrote: "I had always assumed ... that Joey attended the Bluecoats School as a pupil. Alan tells me, though, that he taught there following his graduation from Oxford. (He may have done both, of course.)"
Since I wrote that, Alan has mentioned that he thinks Joey attended Preston Grammar School. That would certainly account for the preservation of his very strong Lancashire accent.
Bill Potts