A GREAT-GRANDFATHER from Pocklington has revealed how no fewer than six generations of his family have attended a school in the town over almost 140 years.

Kenneth Durkin, of Brindlegate, spoke out after The Press reported last month how four generations of one York family had been pupils at Fishergate School in York since the end of the Second World War.

He said his own family's links with St Mary's and St Joseph's Roman Catholic School in Pocklington went back to 1877, four years after his grandfather John Durkin had emigrated with his family from Ireland and ended up in the East Yorkshire town.

"He started at the school in 1877 and was there until he was 11 years old," he said.

"His son, my father Francis Durkin, started at the same school in 1912 and left when he was 11 years old.

"I started at the same school in 1937 and left in 1950, my daughter Christine Kay [nee Durkin] started at the same school in 1962 and left when she was 14.

"Her daughter Clare Sissons, nee Kay, started at the same school in 1979 and left in 1990, and her son Jake Sissons started at the same school in 2012 and is still there, and his brother Luke started later on and they re both at the school now."

He said a new school had been built in 1966 but the old school building remained on the site to the present day, and the old name had been retained throughout.