Lindaok

Cromford canal certainly sounds like Arkwright society - I had zero confidence, thought younger kids were an alien species & hated every minute of it. Must have used it on my CV after all that suffering! i loved the French lit especially Voltaire, Corneille & Anouilh but hated Pagnol. The parties were in Mapperley - strange I don't remember other teachers being there. We had a brilliant English trainee teacher who was really into Tennyson - he organised trips into Lincolnshire & read poems to us in the cathedral - a really inspiring teacher just sorry I didn't tell

Is anyone still in Nottm? I came to London in '75 & never managed to leave - so much for my dreams of a small holding in Notts/Derbs & " il faut cultiver le jardin" ( Candide - French A level) Remember John Charnock ( history A level teacher) - used to hold parties for students in his flat in Mapperley &, I think it was him, managed to persuade a group of us that being volunteer guides for the Arkwright society would look good on our CVs. Gullible!

some things are best just forgotten! It couldn't have been that traumatic though - I repeated the Kinder Scout trip at uni! Bo was Richard Bo........ - surname escapes me. And to think we are all 60 in this academic year - it all seems the recent past.

Sorry to hear about your parents - mine are still in the same house & the older they get the more often I trek up the M1. The old school is unrecognisable now -,a pity there wasn't a reunion before they knocked it down. Barbara & I did go to the 1997 reunion but I don't remember that many of our year group being there. Even after 41 years, Nottingham feels like home.

It certainly was 1971 - Ruth & I were both in Zetting. I rember Yvonne W and Barbara M ( a lifelong friend - we are still in touch) & Debbie? were also on the trip. It was Easter & we chipped in to buy Another Day ( Paul McCartney) for Barbara. Another friend was Jane W - also did french & German. I did French history & English. As I remember you lived at the far end of the playing field near the primary school - I lived at the far end of Bilborough road near the traffic lights. Since leaving for London in1975, I have lost contact with all except Barbara but I still r

Just spent an evening reading these memories & reminiscing. I was in 1 R at BGS 1968-75 & yes, I recognise Ann, "Wode" & ChrisR. Lots of talk of the MFL teachers but no reference to Kenders & his French exchange trips. I remember seeing a very young Elton John at Heathrow on the first of these trips to Sarreguemines. Lunchtimes in the Broad Oak & Friday nights in the Rodney. Its good to remember.

Just spent an evening reading these memories & reminiscing. I was in 1 R at BGS 1968-75 & yes, I recognise Ann, "Wode" & ChrisR. Lots of talk of the MFL teachers but no reference to Kenders & his French exchange trips. I remember seeing a very young Elton John at Heathrow on the first of these trips to Sarreguemines. Lunchtimes in the Broad Oak & Friday nights in the Rodney. Its good to remember.