Yes, site revival!
I was at an amazing school reunion today, laid on by Jim Butterworth (ex-head boy) and colleagues for us fellow pupils who entered the perky, life-enhancing Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon, Uxbridge (west London outskirts) in, wait for it, 1956!
Yup, some of us are still going strong, some 63 years later!
Even a contemporaneous ex-teacher of Maths and RE (the engaging and venerable Ken Pearce MA, accompanied by wife) was around to give a presentation on the history and background of some of our teachers from all those years ago.
How many schools can boast a there-on-the-spot spokesman with such a sound link with past history?
I'll add a new posting in a day or two, with a selection of snapshots I took today.
Please be patient, all you time-mellowed fellow pupils, while I go through my hastily-snatched photo-archive today's surreptitiously-captured snapshots !
(Blog commercial: yes, history needs to be captured, real substantial Brit history that is, as distinct from the yawn-provoking ephemera that comes to us via internet and social media with which we are now are bombarded on a daily basis!)
Cheers
Colin (Berry)
Bishopshalt School, 1956-63
I was at an amazing school reunion today, laid on by Jim Butterworth (ex-head boy) and colleagues for us fellow pupils who entered the perky, life-enhancing Bishopshalt School, Hillingdon, Uxbridge (west London outskirts) in, wait for it, 1956!
Yup, some of us are still going strong, some 63 years later!
Even a contemporaneous ex-teacher of Maths and RE (the engaging and venerable Ken Pearce MA, accompanied by wife) was around to give a presentation on the history and background of some of our teachers from all those years ago.
How many schools can boast a there-on-the-spot spokesman with such a sound link with past history?
I'll add a new posting in a day or two, with a selection of snapshots I took today.
Please be patient, all you time-mellowed fellow pupils, while I go through my hastily-snatched photo-archive today's surreptitiously-captured snapshots !
(Blog commercial: yes, history needs to be captured, real substantial Brit history that is, as distinct from the yawn-provoking ephemera that comes to us via internet and social media with which we are now are bombarded on a daily basis!)
Cheers
Colin (Berry)
Bishopshalt School, 1956-63
