Recent content by Harry Flashman

My wife and I had some wonderful Saturday evenings there in the early 1980's. There was a doberman dog who lived on the premises and a black cat called Thomas. We had many laughs listening to a regular group of St John's ambulance trainees' cracking ever increasing outrageous jokes, after...

Is that Alf Garnett in the background?

No I did not do 6th form. Sadly, I did not take GD very seriously. It was after a poor showing one year that a teacher told me that "...someone has to sweep the roads." After that I lost interest and in my opinion at the time, was of the opinion that GD was a stagnant relic, staffed by some...

Thank you Bob.

1963/4-1969. I was in 1A with Rudi. One event that has stayed with me over the years was our introduction to Art with Pat Hanks. He espoused a very 'radical' (but quite correct) opinion that plastic flowers and 'Paint by Numbers' were a ghastly insult to nature and the art world. Mr. Hanks said...

I am so sorry to hear that. Rudi was a great rugby player and exceptionally nice person also. Was this a long illness or something else?

Kath it appeared she was very much wrong, just as they were in my case and probably innumerable other cases. I've reflected back over the years at the treatment meted out to many pupils at GD. Some of the 'teachers' were more inclined to sarcasm than to encouraging learning. In those cases I...

I spent 12 months at hall Green Tech for the 1970-1971 year. This was after my several previous and unhappy years at George Dixon Grammar school when, after a poor academic showing, I was told by one of the particularly acidic teachers that “somebody has to sweep the roads.” Subsequently I know...

I can completely sympathize with Ray T. I had many ghastly visits to the dentist which was on Maple Road in Bourneville. I see that per Google, there is still a dental surgery on that site. I'm sure that their services are splendid and much less Victorian than my experiences over 50 years ago...

Interesting post there John. Like you I started in 1A at GD and have good memories of Rudolph and Martin, as well as Paul Mayhew. My illustrious start in an ‘A’ stream class was doomed to have me with you John and others, swimming in the depths of the ‘C’ stream from year two for the rest of my...

Looking directly at the camera is, I believe, Martin Ashcroft. Talking to Rudolph Smith is Bill Hendon. Also it looks like John Dale, Geoff Benton and Mark Goldberg in the background.

Odd numbers on Bristol Road were on the right side of the road as you left the city centre and not the left in the modern Highgate development.

Yes, the days of tune ups, engine timing lights, distributor caps etc. In those days 40-50,000 miles was a high mileage car. My 14 year old FJ Cruiser has 152,000 miles and runs beautifully.

I think all cars back then were rot boxes.

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