Pictures from the 1953 OB mag, courtesy of Tony Weekes !
Picture No.1 The 1950 Rugby team:Anyone remember any of these boys ?Editor's note: The rugby team is 1950 as noted on the ball (courtesy of David Clifford).
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Just a point of order. These pictures were provided by Tony WeekES. As an ex Cornwallis boy we should get the name right ! I'll get Tony to check the year.
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Chaps I would bet my last ha'penny (but that is all i'll bet) that it is 1950. I recognise 3 of my contemporary Cornwallis boys Ted Briggs, Kemp, & Crutchley. Crutchley's sister, by the way was a...
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My mistake! regarding the apparant misspelling of Tony Weekes.The subject box only accepts a limited number of characters, thus abbreviating Weekes to Wee etc. I have now made the corrections to the...
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Rod! Let him who is without sin cast the first stone. You do a splendid job with this site. As Sean Connery would say "it is a shite for shore eyes.Mickoff
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Nick I missed out another couple of Cornwallis boys on that picmy mate Fred Gavin reminded me of Somes & Brown. Brown was also a terrific diver, I think in fact he was the school highboard champ....
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Thanks Mike,For your kind words!Cheers,Rod
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I got Tony to check out the year, and to also have a quick look at the site. Two comments emerged.Firstly: On the back of the Rugby picture is the date, (obviously Tony also has an original) April...
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Yeah Yeah Yeah Nick I have been sussed out again, of course it would be 51, had it been 50 I would have been in it, as I played fly half for the school team, one other piece of bullcrap, I mentioned...
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Mickoff, answer me this then. Why are only half the team sporting badges. Maybe they are Cornwallis House colours ?
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You only got your colours as a special award and as the school team kit had to be returned for laundry if entailed sewing your colours on the shirt every time you played.
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Thanks again Charlie!For enlightening us with yet another fascinating fact about life at RHS. I'm sure it was self pride that caused those players to sew badges. It would be good to see a close up of...
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Charlie where do you get all this stuff from, did you keep a diary at school and have the accumulated knowledge of 50 years of diaries to refer to. Or as I suspect just a bloody good memory. With all...
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No diaries - just pure genius
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Hi Mike,You just won a ha'penny. The rugby team is 1950!Ted Briggs of Cornwallis (who helped sort out the house bully), was in the hospital with David Clifford in 1949, when David was having a toe...
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Rod! Absolutely superb, Big Ted just as I remember him, we were also in the same class & Ted was one of the best sketchers I have ever seen. His caricatures of the various teachers were something...
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Nurse Carney married Neville Bartlett, cannot tell you when. but i was one of their neighbours. Jenny & David Mayers (geog teacher) was on the other side of them.When Jenny got pregnant.. Neville...
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Hi Ron,Welcome to the Freedom board! I feel this is something of a personal honour to welcome you here as you were head boy of our house when I joined school.You were a good role model and well...
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I look forward to finding the entry in School Bullies when the euphoria has worn off.
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Hello,all.A little late with the entry but the rugby photo is 1951 despite 1950 clearly written on the ball! At the time the wrong year was written!! We didn't have time to change it!! No more chalk!...
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