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That’s very sad if that’s the case.

Teachers at the school often retired at 60 until fairly recently I think. (Wasn’t this a standard teacher retirement age?)

jtaylor wrote: Thu Aug 20, 2020 2:32 pm Rock School Series 1:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCae9R0HKHc
Video diaries:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_Q-96pst8M

It should be noted that Josh (aka the Emperor) who was the lead singer of the band is now Father Joshua Bell and is a curate in Kings Lynn!

When I was at school (92-99), it was just school monitors who read grace...

I would expect that the trip to Australia was a sports trip (rugby?) - the school have done a number of international sports trips over the years and my memory is that the children going fundraised for nearly all of it...

In the 90s you had a choice of CCF, scouts, DofE and Community Service

The plans for the dining hall including dimensions could well be on the new kitchen dimensions and would be on Horsham District council’s website...

I’ve been texting him (he was on my year) and I’m pleased to say he’s out of hospital.

Is it not something like 6 feet lower than Sharpenhurst to balance the water from the reservoir there?

AMP wrote: Sun Feb 09, 2020 2:08 pm

Great Plum wrote: Sun Feb 02, 2020 7:24 am
These days, the don’t run it outside the ring fence so I assume they must just run around big side or something...

Any idea why?

I would expect the danger of kids running on roads, especially over Peele Bridge as well as potential child protection concerns...

In the 1990s, there were two versions of the steeplechase (junior and senior)

They both started at the 1st XI cricket pavilion, over Peele Bridge, down Peele Straight and then up the footpath across the field to the church at Itchingfield. Then it was left. The junior course then turned left at ...

I seem to remember nobody ever used a knife but just wiped the bread on the still-wrapped butter. :lol: knives were hard to come by, but I remember doing this too. Peeling the top of the butter pack, then rubbing it on the toast until the coverage was acceptable. I did this in the first share ...

I remember getting milk in cubes (like a wine bladder in a box) that fit into a little fridge. Must have been at least 20L in those, they seemed to just keep on coming. Can't remember there ever being a milk shortage :lol:


I think they were called ‘milkpaks’ - they were an endless source of ...

I was starting my UF when the merger happened. It was quite usual for UF/GE girls to have a relationship with Grecians - in general terms girls are a bit more mature than boys of a similar teenage and on a specific basis initially there were 3 times as many hormonal teenage boys looking for ...

Trying to remember whose mini (Gunning's ?) was placed sideways in the cloister archway whilst we there.

I also still have a photo of the last morning of term on my deps (88?) when the year above had made a house of cards from toilet doors in the quad along with setting up a couple of classrooms ...