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  1. This discussion has no end. Unless someone gets two lives and goes through both systems any debate we have will be pure conjecture. Everyone I'm sure can hold up examples to reinforce their particular point of view but it really is a pointless exercise. He went to Grammar school, he went to Comp - it's comparing apples with oranges 'He/she did that, achieved this, because of a Grammar school education'... but there is no way to assess if they would have attained the same level, or lack of, lifestyle/success/money if they left school at 14 and went to work down a mine. People ar
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  2. I for one loved school. Grew up on a Council Estate, passed the 11+ and went to Grammar School. Not a perfect school but always grateful for a good education. Both my Mum and Dad passed to go to Grammar School in the early 30's, but neither set of parents could afford for them to go
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  3. What's the world coming to, if folks can't be bothered to wash and dress after getting out of bed. Makes me wonder how they can be bothered to go shopping, mind you they probably got to stock up on fags and booze ready for Jeremy Kyle and loose women!!!
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  4. There are many pro's and cons for both systems. I was in a secondary school which was probably best for me. I liked working with my hands and picked up the electrical trade fairly quickly. In Canada I got a master's cert' in electrical which allowed me to start my own business. I did o-k. That highlights another weakness in the 11/13 plus method. We develop at different paces. I got a theology degree in later life. I was not ready for that in my teens and twenties. I don't know much about the comprehensive system but on the surface it seems like a really brilliant kid could
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  5. Whichever school I had attended, be it grammar, comprehensive, bilateral or independent, I'd have hated it and whinged about it. I hated school per se. From the age of 4, I had to be dragged there every morning, kicking and screaming. If I'd been allowed to stay at home and read the encyclopedia, I'd have acquired all the knowledge I needed and been blissfully happy at the same time. The problem, for me, is that those who purport to know how education best achieves its aims, have the idea that children need to spend 6 or 7 hours a day with other children and that, for me, is a hug
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  6. Well I got other abilities from my parents who ran their own business that they built up from scratch. If everyone got off their backsides, and not let others wet nurse them, strive for perfection, aimed for a better lifestyle, took some responsibility, then there'd be no underdogs. I'm sick to the back teeth of reading idealistic claptrap. It's a big rough world out there, and the sooner some realise that, the better.
    4 points
  7. The only difference, Phil, was the RANGE of abilities within the school. In the comprehensive school I worked in, there were students arriving from Primary School who weren't too sure about their 2x table and others who were already very capable of doing Algebra, geometry, fractions and decimals etc. Some of the less able had VERY limited reading skills (at the level of an average 5- 6 year old) and others were reading fluently and understanding all kinds of books. But it worked.... there were always a few children who probably didn't reach their potential, but there were others who a
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  8. Today we decided to go to have a fish and chip lunch at a little historical town in the heart of the Black Country. Bilston. Very down to earth people, you must be very careful not to let your gaze settle on a person, as you would soon know about it. I like to visit the market, and the main street is flat, great for our daughter as she sometimes has difficulty walking. Today, as we waited outside a pharmacy as daughter was inside purchasing, we couldn't believe our eyes. Walking down the paved high street, not a care in the world was a sight hard to believe. Two rather large ladies
    2 points
  9. Yes, anyone coming to the meet up next week feel free to wear your PJs.
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  10. At last a glimmer of hope, (it is the the hope that kills, mind)
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  11. There was ever only going to be one winner. It was the same when Nottingham Omnibus tried to muscle in with their ragbag selection of secondhand Bristol VRs and Leyland Atlanteans. Nottingham folk had a great loyalty towards the "green and cream".
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  12. I seem to recall that the tram was going to rejuvenate Radford road They are still going with the old general conversion looks like it will be ready for the next century meeowed
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  13. Are you sure they are the actual clothes they have slept in, or are they cheap 'leisure wear'?
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  14. I was told that squirrel sh!t had a hazel nut in every bite!
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  15. What about us 'rockers' ?
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  16. So much for cultural enrichment. https://www.nottinghampost.com/news/nottingham-news/knives-seized-110-arrests-polish-2525861
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  17. When I worked in the small shop in Rossington we got many ladies coming in wearing pjs, used to see them at the main shops in the village as well. We also had one lad who used to come in during the evening wearing a onesie with ears and a tail (dog) he once jumped thru the door and ask where the dog food was. It cracked both my supervisor and me up
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  18. Sorry about the very poor quality of this picture,it was took on an old mobile phone. my eldest lad driving the wrecker, can't remember who he was working for then Rog
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  19. I think a lot of this problem lies with petty jealousies, envy, and the desire to have something for little effort.
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  20. Certainly FLY, but did you need a Grammar School place for those facets, could you ( or anyone else ) have got the same grounding for future life in a different type of school. As other have said, Grammars were there purely for promoting academic success for the brightest. As you and others have said, and rightly so, life is about making the most of things irrespective of education. I agree with that but that's not the point. It was never a level playing field. If there are 100% of children and 20% go to a Grammar, that leaves 80%. Are they all of the same level of intelligence, of
    2 points
  21. I've winged about it previously, but it did give me other facets of life other than academic, which I find an immense advantage, such as work ethics, loyalty, good manners, good general knowledge, generosity, kindness, but also stoicism, self belief, and an ability never to give in.
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  22. Used to work at Oscrofts in the early sixties, launch of the HA Vivas ( Brabham tuning was a badge and a change of air filters!) The problem was that the cars arrived without undersealing, six months later having started to rust they were sold having had unseal applied at customers request without removing rust! Result instant decay etc. Collected new cars from depots around England, raced back at speeds to make valves bounce and then delivered to customers and told to run them in...result, you guess. Happy days.
    2 points
  23. Sorry TBI. I really don’t understand why the system was junked - unless it was to bring “ equality”, meaning mediocrity, to every kid. We are NOT equally academically gifted, and thank God. I went to a grammar school and never looked down on my mates who were learning a trade at secondary mod. In fact, I often wish that I’d learnt one. I came from a single-parent family. We were poor, and my mum had to accept charity in the form of vouchers to buy my school uniform. She saved to buy me a good fountain pen, and a Bible for Religious Studies. That 11+ gave me equality, academically,
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  24. No change benj. I like Bilston, and I am more at home with people who are ordinary, not showy or snooty. I know there must be a scrap merchant not far away from the town centre because whilst in the Charity Shop, all eyes were on the three women (discreetly of course). As I passed one woman she just looked at me and referring to the women she just whispered Tatters? I don't know why she said it to me, because I don't care what they are, so long as they are peaceful. Their dress sense leaves a lot to be desired, but I must say in their defence, one asked the shopkeeper how much a small gla
    2 points
  25. This ginger Tom certainly wasn’t placid, although he loved my Nan would be on her knee purring as soon as she sat down. Reading my post back don’t know how I survived it all.
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  26. Went out with a ginger haired girl once, she were the same!!.
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  27. I can remember my Nan looking after me before I was at school while (whilst?) My mum was at work. She lived on Bonnington Crescent In Sherwood and the back garden was enormous you went up some steps and it was like a small holding with fruit trees and bushes also hens and geese. I was terrified of the gander it always used to run at me and I used to take flight with it at my heels. My Nan used to shout stop running but it was hard not to as it seemed to be about the same size (if not bigger) then me. It used to get me pinned up against a wall and she used to shoo it off. It has left me with a
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  28. Forest Green Rovers, the only vegan football club in the UK????
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  29. Decline in dress standards, in public some people have no shame, like parents who eff & blind it to their kids in public, no different.
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  30. Thank You catfan . Nothing like advertising your one of the untouchables.
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  31. Do you mean the 'Morrocon Woodbines ' catfan?
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  32. Don't forget the illegal fags.
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  33. It was an old Victorian building when I visited so may not have originally been knitwear. There were lots of mill type buildings in that area. Cooper and Roe moved there in 1950. Small and Tidmus before that.
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  35. Always a SAHB..fan...all the way to Rock Drill album... gone for this track...valour paraffin heaters and soreen malt loaves..the stuff of students!
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  36. Could turn out to be a convict in stripes, pretending to be Pyjamas. Can't have them roaming about in Tesco. Oh No.
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  37. As woody said,games of football and cricket were played on the bottom rec,particularly during the summer months . The football games were never structured. The goal posts were a heaped pile of coats and jumpers,the distance between which was ,never measured or defined.The length and width of the pitch was arbitrary,determined sometimes by a natural obstacle like a hillock or the brook or on other occasions,man made obstacles like the path or a fence.The number of players on each team varied between three and how ever many.If you arrived before the game started you would be "picked" to play fo
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  38. When your livelyhood depends on having a valid drivibg license it makes the person more vigilant & extremely vareful of any traffic violations. Over a period of years it does make you very careful when driving.
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  39. I will agree with you FLY. very easy to stray 2-3 mph over the limit, early in my driving career I got done twice for speeding & no enforcement cameras in those days either ! My own stupid fault, tell you what I learned from that stupidity the hard way, no one to blame except myself ! What really does me are those motorists who drive at excessive speed thinking they have a divine right to drive wrecklessly, which what it is. I would love to see speed cameras on every street.
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  40. Used to love the cruise control device on my last wagon. Join the motoway & set at 56mph, then take a nap !
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  41. '69 - '71 ish as far as I can remember ! mother lived there until '73.
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  42. In the last year our bins have been "missed" twelve times, complained many times & received no explanation why ! Muppets.
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  43. I got pulled in WB for speeding, in a .................corpo bus ! I had learned years before about the "attitude" test, be contrite & apologetic & don't try to be clever either. Policemen have heard all the excuses before. A friendly chat soon sorted that out, no ticket !
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  44. I've often said that no matter what the speed limit is, someone will always exceed it Then moan when they get a ticket.
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  45. Some insurance companies ask at renewal time if you have attended any courses during the previous year.
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  46. #5. That sounds just like my daughter's driving ! She takes after her mum
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  47. Yes everyday, in a 44 bus !
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