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RECOLLECTIONS FROM BOB WHIBLEY OF HIS FORMER FRIENDS AT “GOLDINGS” 1943-46.
SCHOOL CAPTAINS…A LAD CALLED POULTER, AND ALSO GINGER CARR.
PREFECTS…WARD BROTHERS (Twins), FRANK NAYLOR
BILL BAKER…FOOTBALL CAPTAIN.
SOME OF THE BOY, S HE RE-CALLS….
BUSKY SHEPPARD (Glasses…and a hair lip)
STARK…(Bugler…ex Watts)
BIRCH…(Half a arm, and coloured, also a bugler)
REG REYNOLDS…(Played the bag pipes, hand bells, and sleigh bells ex – Kingston band boy)
TOM, MARTIN, AND A LAD CALLED ARCHER. …(Both did a bunk, and got as far as Kings Lynn)
KERNO, DOYLE, AND STEVENSON…(Always being caught smoking)
JOEY LITTLER…(Ginger hair, had a club foot, a very plucky lad, entered all the sports)
DORMA…(Caught scrumping, his punishment…. Banished to the tower)
GABIOLA REWALTER…(One three Spanish boys housed at Goldings due to the Spanish Civil War)
MASTERS.
TOOTIE JONES…ABLUCTIONS
TOOTIE DARTON…DINING HALL
JOE PATCH…GYM
POP HAL…CARPENTERS.
POP DIS…CARPENTERS
TWITCH RILEY
MR EAST.
STORMY TEMPEST.
JOHNIE SHAG …BOOTMAKERS.
MR BROOKS…NICE BLOKE
REVERAND PROCTOR…ALWAYS WORE NICE WHITE SPATS, AND INVITED US TO HIS STUDY FOR TALKS
ON LIFE.
“THE THOUGHTS AND RECOLLECTIONS OF BOB WHIBLEY” 2006 RE-UNION.
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