"WE ALL
SAID THE SAME THING, AT THE TIME WE
DIDN'T APPRECIATE THE FACT THAT WE WERE
GOING TO A TOP SCHOOL, THE LIKES OF WILL
NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN. JUST THINK ABOUT
GETTING CANED, HAVING THE BLACKBOARD
CLEANER THROWN AT YOU, BEING HIT WITH A
RULER, SLAPPED ON THE BACK OF THE
HEAD, TAKEN INTO THE GYM BY VINCE TO BOX
FOR BEING A CLEVER TWAT AND GETTING
BEAT, TODAY ALL OF THE TEACHERS WOULD BE
DOING TIME. BUT THAT IS WHAT'S LACKING
NOW GOOD OLD DISCIPLINE THE TYPE GRANT
DEALT OUT VERY FAIRLY" Baz Buncher
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Did you ever go into the loft? where
Vince kept all his copies of the National
Geographic, he must have had hundreds of them,
there was also an old brass compass and ships
wheel up there ....Paul Lowthorpe
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YOUR
MEMORIES HERE!!
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When Vince used to draw a circle
on the chalk board, he always said "It
takes a hundred years of practice to draw
a perfect circle, and I can almost do it"...Paul L |
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| Me and a
couple of other lads from our class had to
accompany, I think it was Jack Rippon and a class
of lads down to the harbour, Jack went down by
car I think, anyway after the usual row around
the bay, we were entrusted with taking them
back up to school, oh dear! as it was just before
dinnertime us older lads decided to use the
dinner hour productively, picture Fagin and boys
from Oliver Twist! must have been 25 of us ! |
| In those days
the amusements on the sea front opened for
business about 11ish and to pull the customers in
they used to let people have two or three games
of bingo free - of course we couldn't resist this
so we dragged the younger lads from one arcade to
the other gaining stuffed toys, sweets + what
have you + a bit of cash in the process which was
naturally squandered - on chips for the lot of us
from the chippie!! Then of course it was
then time for us to go + face the music ! as we
were a tad late getting back + all of them had
missed school dinner ,old Mr Herbert went
ballistic as you can imagine, I always seemed to
get the blame as "I should Know better"
according to him, apparently they were just about
to phone the law, I think old Jack got a
bollocking too!.... Bob Delaney |
Seven Bells (three pairs and a
single) home time, we all tried to
volunteer to ring the bell, but no one
ever wanted to stand under the bell,
though most of us had to !...Paul L
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Not often that
anybody got away with anything with Mr
Grant but I did!
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| Remember
"smokers corner" at the side of
the gym, old Granty used to have a fair
bit of success collaring the unfortunates
from our class there, however although he
got the cigs they were smoking he always
failed to find the rest of the packet...Which
to say the least caused him great
annoyance + severe retribution to the
poor sods he apprehended! Strangely it
never occurred to him, because he knew I
was a non smoker, to search me..... The Tobacco
Baron |
| If you
remember the blackboards, one in our
class was on a large wooden frame on
wheels, the writing surface was like a
conveyor belt and would roll around, we
used to put the duster on the top, so it
would fall when the teacher turned it,
missed most of the time...... Paul Lowthorpe |
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