Month: April 2000

  • Ah, the memories!

    My former BGS classmate, now naturalised Canadian, Glenn Price pointed me in your direction. Already I recognise some of the names on your listings — ah, the memories! … Apart from Glenn Price, some of the others from my year were: Chris Allen; Max Kirman; Richard Hawes; Alan Clarke; Nicholas Martin (your brother?); Steven Fell; Read.

  • The Derek Green Story

    As promised [in earlier correspondence below], the Derek Green story, which starts at the end of our school exchange visit to Ettlingen at Easter 1964: A group of us were waiting with suitcases, on the station platform, ready for our return journey to England. Derek marched up to us and said in an angry tone: Read.

  • A pleasantly nostalgic few minute

    Delighted to find the site! I have just spent a pleasantly nostalgic few minutes reading and remembering … I was at Bilborough from 1959 – 66 and studied German with Mr Gilliver, Mr ‘sandals’ Newcome and Derek Green. The mentions of these three brought memories flooding back. Whatever happened to Miss Skedge (who performed a Read.

  • Chuffed

    I was really chuffed to find [the BGS page]. I went to the briefly mentioned reunion of 1997 and was one of the founding cohort — we went to Forest Fields near the Forest and wore Mundella uniform! BGS was an absolutely wonderful grammar school and quite, quite special as a pioneer in all sorts Read.