The story of a successful town and gown project
Jim Fleetwood (1946-51) writes:
“I was just looking, quickly, over the COSA website and thought I would pass on a few memories from my schooldays. These are, in fact, culled from correspondence with Mike (Jeff) Jeffery. The vague “We” is used to protect the not-so-innocent.
Continue reading “Three Memories”John Stockford of Redwood City, California writes:
“Thanks for the Update …all very interesting.
Continue reading “Harry Jacques”Bryan Beames (1945-50) of Fielding, New Zealand 5600, writes:
“Thanks for the update on the web. I had hoped to see a reference to Mr. McCready at some stage and also to the student teachers about whom I wrote some time ago.
Continue reading “Mr McCready”Bryan Beames (1945-50), now living in New Zealand, reminisces:
Living in Cowley (I knew Alan Trinder (1944-51) who lived in the next street) I attended St. Christopher’s School and passed the scholarship exam, the last time it was held I believe before it became the 11 plus exam.
Continue reading “COHS in the late 1940s”Chris Wilson (1951-57) writes:
“I am particularly pleased to read the list of School Officers 1958-59 on page 11 of N1 featuring my younger brother, Peter Gradwell Wilson, as School Captain and House Captain of Lawrence House.
Continue reading “The Wilson Boys”Philip Gammage (1947-54) writes:
“Does anyone know what happened to the COHS Double bass?
Continue reading “The COHS Double Bass”Ralph Baer (1941-45) remembers in particular TICH WRIGHT: “with his slow, slightly stately walk and way of speaking, very enthusiastically about the languages he taught.”
COHS in Wartime 40-45
Brian Gumm writes: “It is strange the things that stick in one’s memory after sixty years.
Continue reading “George ‘George’ Wright”KEN CAMPBELL (1942-47) writes from Portsmouth: “The pictures of headmaster Badham shown at the pre-AGM slide show brought back painful memories to schoolboy Kenneth Blackwell.
Continue reading “J E Badham Esq MA”
by Don Bennett (1939-45), Southern California:
Thanks for the photo page (No 2 May 2006). It brings back memories, as I used to sit across the desk from Mr Bodey in his physics lab.
Continue reading “R W ‘Pongo’ Bodey”