Best Quad Decor by the leavers?

luminouslemon · Post by **luminouslemon** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:32 pm

firstly does anyone know when this tradition actually started....?

i seem to remember 95 or 96 as being especially good. 97 saw the quad full of toilet paper, and 98 (when it was our turn) my contribution was a huge CLASS OF 91 made from beers cans and string.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Wed Dec 06, 2006 7:56 pm

ah yes and by 2000 when i started at the school on my deps Grecians were banned from the quad on their ball night!

I do remember as younger teenager dad coming back from school morning after grecians ball and what they had gotten up to-getting band instruments out etc.

eloisec · Post by **eloisec** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:39 am

blondie95 wrote:I do remember as younger teenager dad coming back from school morning after grecians ball and what they had gotten up to-getting band instruments out etc.

we played a rather bad version of retreat and a parade down the avenue on our last night. nothing like playing marches completely drunk, I reckon they sounded better

luminouslemon · Post by **luminouslemon** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:40 am

now i do remember that one!! no sleep that night LOL

sport! · Post by **sport!** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 11:42 am

maybe not decoration, but a dining hall trolley was left dangling from the water tower on the last day of the school year in 1980........I'm sure have a photo somewhere......

marty · Post by **marty** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 1:41 pm

Mr Gladding's two minis were singled out for 'special attention' for a year to two I seem to remember. We just made a giant bed out of mattresses and duvets in the quad. Didn't get much sleep though cos it a) it rained and b) someone had set up up a tv and video and was playing an Abba concert....

J.R. · Post by **J.R.** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 3:46 pm

Don't recall anything like this in my day !

HJow Boring.

Hang-On !!!

Yes, once a upturned gerzunnder, (chamber-pot) appeared on our founders head in the centre quad one year !

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 9:57 pm

I can't even remember what our year did to the Quad

There was one year when they parked the school bus/coach right up to one of the dining room doors - could have been our year but maybe from a year or so before

Hannoir · Post by **Hannoir** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 1:32 am

We did have a sign on the chapel roof though.

blondie95 · Post by **blondie95** » Fri Dec 08, 2006 8:33 am

oh yes we did courstey of two grec easties who like to climb things!

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 1:45 pm

My year were rather drunken as I remember.

We weren't meant to march down the avenue and the band was meant to be confined to the quad but we made it out (briefly) through the Art School car park!

The theme was meant to be the Millenium Dome but it ended up as a mess of stuff around the statue and our beloved founder appearing to smoke a spliff!

Paul Carter also made a 'porn tractor' which seemed to consist of wheelie bins...

A couple of years above us, the leavers made Stonehenge out of wardrobes which worked quite well!

Vonny · Post by **Vonny** » Sat Dec 09, 2006 9:48 pm

Great Plum wrote:My year were rather drunken as I remember.

Like every other year then

Great Plum · Post by **Great Plum** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:51 am

Very true!

Alice83 · Post by **Alice83** » Sun Dec 10, 2006 9:45 pm

i remember the year above me got a sheep from a local field amongst other things!... i blame them for the fact that we were banned from quad!

BTaylor · Post by **BTaylor** » Mon Dec 11, 2006 9:32 am

Julian - maybe you can fill in the gaps

1992 leavers - I seem to remember Gladding's mini being moved as far down the cloisters as possible, apparently breaking the handbrake cable in the procress (oops)

A set of rugby posts were found and leant up against dining hall and a sheep pen constructed out of dining hall tables. Sheep aquisition failed miserably.

On my squits the statue was covered from head to foot in housey coats and dining hall covered in camouflage netting - which led to fun and games the next morning.