View attachment 156762 Does anyone ex KEGS Camp Hill remember John LLoyd who has just died aged 89. He must have been in the 5th or 6th Forms when I was there and I would not remember anyone so remote. There was a small obituary of him recently in the Guardian.
Looking back in these threads, what is this word 'sherrin'? I thought it was 'sherring' = fresh herring. Like our school song this was pinched from KES. Has our school song changed since my time? Then it started "Where the I-ron heart of England throbs, beneath its sombre robe ...".
In 1B we were taught to sing this properly without the glorious glissandi. Of course we always sang it improperly ever after. We were taught this by Mr Howe. His parents unfortunately gave him the forename Isaac pronounced "I's a cow".
One teacher/nickname I have not seen mentioned is Mr "Soss" Hollingsworth. Apparently, before the war there had been a pork butcher's shop near the school with that surname. He was profoundly deaf, probably from service in the Great War. In lessons in the chemistry lab he would fine you 6 d. for making a noise with your stool. He could feel the vibrations but could not detect voices. We took advantage of that.
Soss had a dry sense of humour. During a botany clss in the Lecture Room some one came round selling Remembrance Poppies. He analysed the characteristics of a 'poppy' and proved it was the flower of some other plant. That must have been Autumn 1952.