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Feel free to add messages relating to the site and the school. The only rules are: real names only, no personal attacks and no unrelated messages (inappropriate messages may be edited/withdrawn without warning).
It would be appreciated if you gave an email address, where you now live and said when you were at the school, but you don't have to.
Plase note that if you click on an email address below you will need to replace ~DOT~ with . and ~AT~ with @ in your email program. The Guestbook presents these this way to avoid email address harvesters collecting your email addresses from the page. I know it's a pain, but it's very much better than the alternative.
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Neale Backhouse
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You're dead right (again) Alex. I checked Google maps and (of course) there is a Cauldwell Villas and it is a long street, but according to my familial expert could not possibly be considered as Cauldwell. She also opines that how you pronounce Cauldwell depends on whether you lived "in" Cauldwell or the Sutton Estate. I reiterate, most of the time she's nice.
Tue 12-Aug-2025 19:44
- Victoria BC
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Bruce Graham
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Talk about multi-tasking.
Looking at the Staff List I see that Mr Wesencraft (curious name) wasn't just PE but Physics and Chemistry as well.
Google Maps shows Cauldwell Villas so
it must be true!!
Keep them coming.
Sun 10-Aug-2025 14:57
- ruskington lincolnshie
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Alan Whittaker(1953-59)
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One of Charlie Constables discipline measures was to grab a pupils hair and rattle his head on the desktop! Quite effective really.
Sun 10-Aug-2025 11:07
- Langford Budville, Somerset
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Alex Patterson, VUA 1946 - 1951
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P.S. Charlie Constable told me to be quiet in class thus, "That's enough of the 'patter' son."
He used it more than once.
Alex
Sat 9-Aug-2025 23:14
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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Alex Patterson, VUA 1946 - 1951
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WRT sarcasm or humour, I remember my first P.E. class with Mr. Wesencraft, whereupon he asked me my shoe size. When I told him it was 10, he said,"I didn't ask your age, but never mind, you'll always have a good understanding." I was so naive, I thought he was complimenting me!!
Ah well,
Alex
Sat 9-Aug-2025 23:09
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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Alex Patterson, VUA 1946 - 1951
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Was there a Cauldwell Villas? And was it pronounced 'Called-well' or 'Cad-well'?
Cheers,
Alex.
Sat 9-Aug-2025 23:00
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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Neale Backhouse
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No, neither of those, Bruce. Liz lived on Chester Gardens, off Sunderland Road,which she insists is part of Cauldwell.
So I think I'd better leave it there.
Thu 7-Aug-2025 22:56
- Victoria BC
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Alan Whittaker(1953-59)
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Scratcher became headmaster of Redwell School in 1960. A Sutton Estate and ex-High School boy,Ian Reid was his P Ed teacher.Small world!
Thu 7-Aug-2025 11:31
- Langford Budville, Somerset
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Bruce Graham
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There's posh - Cauldwell (Avenue or Place)!!In addition to his duties as head of Physics at the school, Scratcher Aitchison was also the Officer Commanding 324 Squadron Air Training Corps. So when my ambition was set on the RAF and I joined the ATC I was subject to more of his withering remarks.
Wed 6-Aug-2025 17:01
- ruskington lincolnshie
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