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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only rules are: real names only, no personal attacks and no unrelated messages (inappropriate messages may be edited/withdrawn without warning).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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Phil Williamson | williamsonphil6~AT~gmail~DOT~com

Hi. Love the site - been here before. Embarrassed by being an "unknown" on the Mikado Principals photo - even more embarrassed in terms of what I look like. At the other end of the line is Alec? Clegg (or Coates) - his surname changed during the years there but I can't remember which way round - he and I were "guards" and didn't have to sing or anything thank god.
If anyone know of details re the Old Girls High School - i.e. not the one near the Ridgeway- I'm trying to find details of Linda Cubey - my cousin who died in her 30s. I'm trying to get info for her son - particularly any photos. I know her best mate was called Belinda. She was about 3 to 4 years older than me so went there about 1963 - 1974.

Thu 1-Mar-2018 12:17 - East Riding of Yorkshire

Barbara Donegan | barbara~DOT~donegan~AT~yahoo~DOT~co~DOT~uk

Many thanks for this wonderful resource. Managed to track down details of a relative in the late 1800s (putting together a family tree as a gift).

Thu 18-Jan-2018 13:37 - Scotland

Alex Patterson 1946-51 VUA | ad1935ap~AT~gmail~DOT~com

Hello Mike and all the other readers on this site.
As I start this, it's still Christmas Day (11;59 pm) in Georgian Bay. We are at our daughter's lovely home in Victoria Harbour and the snow is belting down with gale-force winds. Our cars are buried in the driveway with the snow drifting up to the tops of the doors on the leeward side of the cars. We must have had about 20 inches of snow since 4;00pm when it started. I know it's pretty and all that but 'give me a @#$^*##$!!! break. I promise to write more next year (more than Backhouse that is) and see if we can encourage some younger contributors to join in.
We're blessed to be around for another year surrounded by our family at Christmas and hope the same applies to you and that you've all had a pleasant Christmas Day and I wish you all the health and happiness for 2018...and thanks again Mike for making this site work.
Regards, from a bitterly cold, blowing snow, white-outs, freezing rainy Victoria Harbour
Alex Patterson

Tue 26-Dec-2017 05:16 - Victoria Harbour, Lake Huron

NEALE Backhouse | nealebackh~AT~gmail~DOT~com

Hi Mike
It's noon here on the west coast, Christmas Eve. We have snow and 0 degrees C. I have the house to myself as Liz is still battling frantic crowds and traffic for last minute additions to our Christmas Eve get together at #2 son's place this evening (we are off the hook!).So I could say, it's all quiet on the western front. It must be about 8.00pm in Rothbury so you are that much closer to experiencing the Christmas spirit that seems to come over us all on the special day. It seems that someone magically surrounds the 25th of December in a warm glow that we wish could last all year,but has a hard time lasting after Boxing day, for one reason or another.
So while I'm in right mood at present, I would like to wish you and our other Guestbook friends a Very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!! (I hear Liz in the garage).

Sun 24-Dec-2017 20:33 - Victoria BC

Edward Forster | r2edforster~AT~live~DOT~ca

Noticed that I've reduced to 5 down, must be some ancient old school characters still alive, as I'll be 92 next month, tempest fugit.
As I've mentioned before, I still have my Geordie accent toned down so I can be understood even though I left for Canada almost 67 yrs. ago.
Xmas will soon be here. I wish all the best to all in the guest book & say Mike has done & is doing a great job.

Fri 15-Dec-2017 16:39 - Prince Edward I sland.

Bryan Cooper | brayncc~AT~gmail~DOT~com

I have just noticed Joe Orton's post about the swimming photo (really enjoy the books, by the way,Joe).
On school Gala nights we had to change in a dusty, very warm area of the baths, accessed via a door at the back right of the pool, looking at the diving board. It was full of pipes like the ones you can see in the background of the photo. So, not so cruel after all.

Tue 12-Dec-2017 09:15 - Whitchurch, Shropshire

Bruce Graham | bsgraham~AT~btinternet~DOT~com

Haven't posted anything for ages!!

In the list of notable birthdays in today's (2nd December 2017)Daily Telegraph one of our famous old boys - and a good friend of mine in my boyhood - Professor David Phillips is included. He is 78 today.

David qualifies in his role as President of the Royal Society of Chemistry from 2010 to 2012.

Sat 2-Dec-2017 13:59 - Ruskington, Lincolnshire

Stewart Hamilton 1966-72 | hamilton1314~AT~btinternet~DOT~com

Additional to your teacher's list:
Ken Slater left the school about the same time as his friend Jim Blance and both taught at Haydon Bridge High School. Ken was a tremendous singer, and at morning assemblies his stentorious voice rang out above all others, especially during Bread of Heaven when he alone would come in with the repeat line Want No More. Charlie Constable once said of the fad of the time 'Visual Aids' 'Aall ya need is a piece of chalk and a blackboard'.

Sun 24-Sep-2017 11:18 - Ponteland England

NEALE Backhouse | nealebackh~AT~gmail~DOT~com

My God you two. Honeymooning and sailing in Mallorca!!

Liz and I honeymooned in Jesmond Dene Park. And it rained.

Fri 18-Aug-2017 20:49 - Victoria BC.

Eric Moyse (1946 to 1953)

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I wondered who had left them. The sun cream was a bit sticky but the glasses are fine.
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Fri 30-Jun-2017 10:20 - Reading Berkshire

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