Category: Correspondence

  • Truly amazing

    Truly amazing to come across this site and to even see the latest letter on view was from someone in my class. I attended BGS from 1958 till 1964 when I moved up to the Wirral with my parents and finished my 6th form at a school there. I went on to become a teacher Read.

  • Just a quick note

    Just a quick note to say how chuffed I am to have located the web site. I was at BGS from 58-66 and some great times. I found the site having received a letter from Dick Harwood who also lives in Leics. I am keen to contact Glenn Latimer to catch up on all those Read.

  • Found the site just browsing

    Found the site just browsing, memories slowly coming back by reading some of the web pages. I was on the first intake, passed 11+ at J. Player Junior school, attended Forest Fields for about a year then onto BGS. Our classrooms at Forest Fields were I remember wooden huts in the corner of the school Read.

  • Delighted to discover

    Mike Robinson lives near me in Wollaton and told me about the site — absolutely delighted to discover its secrets. I was at BGS 59-66 and remember Chris Haywood well — straight fair hair so he was nicknamed “Curls”. I remember Lynn Wood very well — is the Steve Wood her brother the hockey player Read.

  • Hey presto!

    The way I came on to the site is a bit of a long story. I was talking with a colleague who said he had got in touch again with his old national service regiment through the web. [This] triggered a thought that I’d often had previously, which was whether or not BGS had ever Read.

  • The last intake

    I was in the last intake of schoolchildren to pass through Bilborough (September 1972). I have good memories of the school. I remember Mr Littlewood falling for the plasticene ball full of water trick in physics. Also Mr MacNaughton’s iron rule in geography. Along with that the session that Mr Richards ran after hours for Read.

  • Well, what a surprise!

    Well, what a surprise! My brother, Steve Wood passed the website details on to myself and my brother Chris — all of us were at BGS. I was a contemporary of Chris Haywood and left in 66. Steve left in 69 (I think) and Chris was there when it was Bilborough College. I remember Celia Read.

  • Delighted

    Delighted to see the site. It was a mystery to me how and why a very good school could have gone 40 years without a single official reunion. This must have constituted some kind of record. Still, I have spoken with both Mike’s recently and Mike Clark was my guest at Nottingham Forest a couple Read.

  • Just stumbled across . . .

    Just stumbled across the BGS page. Many thanks for running such an excellent nostalgia site. I was there from 1969 to 1971. I was among the small group of late developers that were let into the Sixth Form from the sec mods (or bilaterals as Nottingham insisted on calling them). I came from Peveril along Read.

  • 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.