Recently moved house and found my old A Level certificate, which I sat in the summer of 68. I arrived at BGS in the autumn of 1965, into the 5th year and endured 3 years there.
My start was not helped due to the fact that my parents had bought the old headmaster Doctor Peakes house on Parkside which seemed to rile the existing staff, making me a marked man, and I was also told to drop the double barrelled surname at that school which seemed to make assimilation into the school difficult.
It is strange that I have not given that 3 years any real thought for such a long time, but readi