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- Tue Feb 09, 2010 10:01 am
- Forum: Thornton Photos
- Topic: ThorntonB 1959
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Re: ThorntonB 1959 and John Snow
I well remember sleeping in John Snow’s bed – in 1963 this meant something a lot different from 2010 LOL. While never having met him, he was very much an idol
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:55 am
- Forum: Thornton Photos
- Topic: ThorntonB 1962
- Replies: 7
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Re: ThorntonB 1962
Interesting photo for me as I joined ThB in 1963 and my brother being there since 1961. I presume the house master in the picture was Patrick Cullen?
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:39 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: Housey Slang.....
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Re: Housey Slang.....
Land, Sea and Air comes to mind for passing ADB down the table – Land was the "A Decent bit of Bread" bread slice rubbed along the table, Sea was being passed and dipped in every kiff bowl as it came down and finally Air meant the bread slice was thrown in the general direction of the re...
- Tue Feb 09, 2010 9:34 am
- Forum: Stories, Reminiscing & Teacher/Pupil Memories
- Topic: So, the underground tunnels...
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Re: So, the underground tunnels...
My Tube memories consist of – making distilled grapefruit juice alcohol (disgusting); making a fur coat from rat skins (disgusting); smoking and putting coins in the light sockets to fuse the lights so it was harder to be spotted smoking. Naturally I also explored the network and of course we used...