katyjay 4,997 Posted March 15, 2022 Report Share Posted March 15, 2022 Trevor S doesn't post any longer but I will tell him about you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,997 Posted April 1, 2022 Report Share Posted April 1, 2022 On 3/15/2022 at 9:04 AM, DaveM said: Yes I did, after 2 years ar BHGS. Hi Dave. Trevor Stainforth thinks he remembers you and asks if you rode your bike to school every day? Sometimes behind the school bus! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Socram 124 Posted April 13, 2022 Report Share Posted April 13, 2022 Dave M - Makarenko House? Remember the name... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
katyjay 4,997 Posted September 6, 2022 Report Share Posted September 6, 2022 Was on a bus trip in Sicily yesterday. Recognised a Midland accent behind us. He was bought up in Underwood and went to Arnold County High School. He started Sept 61. The small world gets smaller. 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adrian Adams 17 Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 On 3/14/2018 at 11:43 AM, Socram said: Does anyone have a decent copy of the 1960 ACHS house photographs, taken on the steps of the quad? I already have Schweitzer, Roosevelt and Aylward, but need the other three, if anyone can help. These MAY be used in a book I started writing years ago - and keep trying to update. Pandit or Pundit, Aylward, Roosevelt, Cheshire (Ryder-Cheshire) and I'm told Makarenko but I don't remember that name. Shweizer, my house, was first after you came down from the office, library etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Adrian Adams 17 Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 On 4/17/2018 at 7:09 PM, Graham Edward said: Gunner . Would your Beethoven loving friend be Michael Welbourne who lived in Radcliffe - on - Trent. He was a good friend of mine and the description matches . Also a teacher who seems to have been missed here was a Miss Coulson ----- very young and attractive who caused lustful thoughts in many lads !! Graham She was a great English teacher ! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stuart.C 430 Posted October 18, 2022 Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 I was in Cheshire. 62 to 67 and also remember Miss Coulson. I hadn't realised till years after leaving that the Houses were in alphabetical order clockwise looking from the steps, either that or I'd forgotten. I don't remember Makarenko, but after Googling it would make some sense. Gladys AYLWARD Sue RYDER and Leonard CHESHIRE PANDIT Nehru ( )? ROOSEVELT (Anton)? MAKARENKO Albert SCHWEITZER Anton Semenovich Makarenko, a Ukrainian and Soviet educator, social worker and writer, became the most influential educational theorist in the Soviet Union. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Socram 124 Posted November 28, 2022 Report Share Posted November 28, 2022 Never realised it was alphabetical, but the first three housed ex Eastwood pupils and the ex Bramcote the other half. Roosevelt was Eleanor. if you read Dr Higginson's book, (A School Is Born) he was adamant that the houses were named after living people (at the time) and not meaningless colours and international, rather than just British. Doc Higginson, the first head (or 'Harry of England' as he signed himself later) was more than just a Head Teacher. He was best classed as an educator. Pupils were encouraged to form overseas pen friendships based on their 'house'. Sadly, writing wasn't my thing (my handwriting was bad anyway) and I had a short lived communication with an American girl in Maine. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Oztalgian 2,923 Posted November 30, 2022 Report Share Posted November 30, 2022 At our junior school the houses were named after the great estates/houses of the Dukeries. Clumber, Newstead, Rufford and Welbeck. Each one had a nominated colour but I can't remember which was which. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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