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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Part 9: At least I think so though it might be a duplicate of an original number 9..... so if it is. ,let's stay in the old school tradition and call it 9A. Up until the 5th. form we had a great team and when on mondays Chums would read out all of saturdays' results, and while some of the...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Part 8 So we ain't sherrins any more..... an it's payback time y'all.... 'Hey, so here we here we go' and so the new ones got what generation of sherrins had got cos all was fair in love and war wasn't it. Jim has reminded me of this : 'In fact your memory of sherrins reminds me of my first...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Part 7: So here we go again ..... 'Memories are made of this' see: a bit about love, but you know what I mean! [after this track up came Chuck Berry Johnny B Goode and then Little Richard Good Golly Miss Molly which reminded me of something else..... anon!] Sid was a member of the Ban the...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    part 6: Still going great guns and not out of IM yet although several anecdotes belonging to another period have already been related. Never got the cane myself, but was battered about every now and then like most of us were. Failed Eng. Lit O level mainly because I hadn't read the set books...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    part 5 Another Chums wobble was when I was in 5b and just opposite on the other side of the corridor was the form room of 5c, aka the remove, when on this occasion Martin Webb was having great fun having greased the outside door knob and was holding onto the inside one and preventing anyone...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Part 4: Tom Rogers was put out to pasture, en route to the glue factory! Pleased as punch I was as Fat Al, our new headmaster as he became affectionately known, was a much nicer chap, although he did throw a wobble now again, but who doesn't? Mr Cholmondely had a labrador and at one rugby...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Part 3: He was always the ref, and in one of these games much later on when I smashed an unstoppable shot into the top left hand corner of the net sic!] he disallowed it for offside...... 'cos they were getting hammered! And they used to have a 7 a side rugby match against the first team until...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    I once saw someone in the bogs getting a frog forcibly thrust down his trousers. Don.
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    OK Dennis, here goes September 1959. So there we were Johnny Morrow and me, Donald Wright, standing a the 18 bus stop at the top of Parsons Hill, Kings Norton to go to Cotteridge and then to get the number 11 to Vicarage Road. Johnny and me knew each other from the cubs and so at least we each...
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    King Edwards Grammar School Camp Hill

    Dear Dear Dennis, Haven't forgotten to let you have a few of my adventures at CH. Am retired now and am bogged down with retirement hobbies which take up most of my time, translating latin [if I fancy it I'll have a go] ancient greek and hebrew [this last one because I went to Israel in...
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