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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only rules are: real names only, no personal attacks and no unrelated messages (inappropriate messages may be edited/withdrawn without warning).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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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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Neale Backhouse
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It's great to be retired, so much time on our hands!
Humour amongst the Staff. Not much I agree Bruce. But a fair amount of sarcasm would pop up now and then.
I remember Scratcher(a prime candidate) asking someone in his Physics class what were his future plans. "To be a marine engineer sir." "You mean a fitter at Readheads?" said Scratcher. Charming, right.
In my case in GED drawing, Mr Jefferson, on viewing my progress on a drawing, remarked, "What did you do for homework, rub it out?" (I'd say funny, not sarcastic)
With respect to Harting and Cleading,
Liz still needs to remind me, on occasion, that she is from Cauldwell.
not the Sutton Estate! She's nice most of the time.
Tue 5-Aug-2025 21:21
- Victoria BC
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Bruce Graham
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Nice one Alex!
Curiously, thinking back I don't recall any of the Teaching staff in our era having a particularly strong sense of humour.
However when it came to corporal punishment there were several very active individuals.
These days they would all be up incourt!!
Tue 5-Aug-2025 19:31
- ruskington lincolnshie
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Alex Patterson, VUA 1946 - 1951
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Oooooops, I should have said, "Are you for Harton?"
Mon 4-Aug-2025 01:40
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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Alex Patterson, VUA 1946 - 1951
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Eric that reminds me of the old dad-joke; Lady to driver of horse drawn carriage, "Excuse me, but is this carriage "for Harton?
"No Ma'am, it must be the horse!"
Sorry,
Alex
Sun 3-Aug-2025 20:57
- North York, Ontario, Canada
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Bruce Graham
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Accents.
It's interesting that our colleagues from the Dominions should have retained a recognisable accent from all those years ago.
My brother, Douglas, school 1945-50, always known as "CD" in an A form with three Grahams, lived most of his working life after qualifying in industrial chemistry as an expatriate. First in Mexico, where he became fluent in Spanish, working for an American company where he acquired a pronounced Yankee twang. Then in Spain, Cincinatti, and Belgium so he had a real mixture of influences. Curiously in his latter days, by then retired to the south of France, there were signs of his origins emerging in his speech.
For myself, having completed an apprenticeship in the Royal Air Force where I was surrounded by young people from all over the UK and gradually changed the way I spoke I entered an era where pronounced regional accents were not seen as positive attributes in ambitions to progress. Thank goodness those attitudes have now changed (I think).
So Pam Hedley would now be proud of me having tried all those years ago to instil "proper pronunciation" with little effect. My father equally as he always insisted that words ending in "ing" should be enunciated properly.
Fri 1-Aug-2025 19:32
- ruskington lincolnshie
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