News of Old Boys is always welcome, either for the magazine or the website, or both! Please send it to: oldboys@ntlworld.com
Martin Crossley (1978-85) has sent this recent update: I am married and living
in Ealing with 3 children and am a Retail Partner at King Sturge Property Consultants
in London. Still playing football for Old Lyonians in the Southern Amateur League
(although currently out with a broken leg) as well as some cricket and golf. In regular
contact with Rob May (1978-85).
Talking of which , congratulations to Rob
May (1978-85) and his wife Wendy on the
birth of their first child, Morgan John on January 2nd 2005.
John Douglas Jones (1939-46) has
written from Clifton in Bristol. He remembers with affection the staff who provided
him with a sound grounding for his career in the aircraft industry.
He writes: I moved to Bristol to start my apprenticeship
with the Bristol Aeroplane Company and have lived in Bristol ever since. I retired
in 1989 having specialised in the design of Composite structures for 35 years. Modern
military and Civil aircraft are progresively using increasing volumes of these materials.
I have been a keen sailplane pilot for 60 years and still play an active role in the technical aspects of sailplane operation. I would very much like to hear from anyone who would remember me from the period at school. Contact can be made via the link at the top of the page.
Norman Martin
(1942-47) has sent me a photo of his form group taken in 1946 and featuring
the renowned J.J. 'Jasper' Dodds:
He says: My only memento of my time at Bournemouth School is the above photograph taken in 1946 showing the 5th form of that year presided over by J.J. himself and flanked by two of the veterans of that form, Messers Mudway and Hunt. Some of the members of that form had carried over from previous years and as the youngest member, aged 15, (5th from the left, back row) I recall thinking that I had joined a class of young men. Charles Gray was another member of that form but was apparently absent that day. (Charles Gray was to become a famous actor - perhaps best known as Blofeld in Diamonds Are Forever?)
Jasper Dodds was indeed unlike any other member of staff at that time. He was a strict disciplinarian. He demanded (and got) everybody's absolute attention, no one ever failed to hand in homework and his was the only class whose pupils always lined up outside the room whilst waiting for him to arrive for a lesson instead of sitting around larking about! And all this without ever having to raise his voice. Fifty years on, I have to say I count myself fortunate to have come under his wing and to have seen him in his prime.
At the time there were very few private cars on the road, Jasper drove to school
in a pre-war Morris 8 registration number CEL 57. The fact that, even today, the
number comes easily to mind speaks volumes. Everyone's radar was tuned to this vehicle
and it needed to be because to be spotted by J.J. walking along East Way from the
bus stop in Charminster Road without wearing the school cap was practically a capital
offence. The sight of CEL 57 appearing over the top of the hill as it approached
the school was the signal for the bareheaded ones to make themselves scarce.
I left school to work for Preston & Redman the solicitors in Hinton Road. After
National Service I joined the Trust Division of Lloyds Bank and managed branches
in Guernsey, Ipswich and Nottingham before retiring as head of financial services
in the North West region based in Liverpool.
Frank Daniel (1937-41) has sent me
a number of photographs from a school play which occurred sometime during his years
at Bournemouth School. They appear to have been taken in the area known as 'The Copse'
If anyone else can throw any light on the play please contact me on the usual email.
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Mick Fionda (1947 - 52) has sent this picture of a Bournemouth School cricket team
taken in 1952
He says:
I thought this photograph of 1952 may raise a few laughs
with someone, somewhere.
Back row:- Mick Fionda, Paul Oliver,
Len Iggulden, Mike 'Walt' Stamp, .... Henderson, Harry Ridehalgh.
Front row:- Dave Munt, Don Gardiner, John O'Brien, John Jacobs, Tom Hawkins.
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