Lindaok
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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 return "home" regularly.
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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.
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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.
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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 him.