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The old building and the move to Remembrance Avenue (Pt 3)
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The story continues from last month - http://www.oldbordenians.co.uk/?p=146#more-146 for those who hadn’t spotted it was further down the home page! I appreciate that some of the photos are duplicated from the earlier posts, but this part of the story is more a pictorial representation of the old school then and now.
The next photographs show the old school at different times and a little detective work will enable the reader to put them into chronological order. I have tried to take contemporary photographs but much of the school field has been built on to provide private housing taking up the whole corner of the plot bounded by the original road up to the school, Riddles Road and College Road. Hence I was unable to get wide views.
At the time of writing, I have not been able to identify any of the internal rooms mentioned in “Vale”. I am finding that the more I write, the more there is to investigate. I do not think of time as the enemy but it certainly seems to ‘fugit’ very rapidly! 
The photo above shows the cricket square in good condition but I think the outfield would have caused a bit of a problem!
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The old building and the move to Remembrance Avenue (Pt 2)
This is the 2nd article detailing the history of the school and particularly around the period 1928 - 1929, when the school moved to its current location. It is a while since the first was published so to refresh memories - http://www.oldbordenians.co.uk/?p=88#more-88. The story continues ..
I wondered where the photograph shown below was taken. The text in the previous article seems to infer that this was the dining hall with the ancestral arms mounted on the wall at the end of the room. I remember them mounted on the wall in the old hall between the Honours Boards. A recent search in Archives produced only the banner.
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1,000+ Years of Old Bordenian Veteran Footballers!
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Bob Davis (1942-2008) - obituary
Bob Davis was, without any doubt, the iconic figure at Borden in the late fifties. Blessed with a fine physique, he was a magnificent sportsman. His main love was football but he could seemingly turn his hand to any sport. Although he never liked cricket, he scored the only century of our period at school. He could throw a javelin a fair distance and hockey and tennis came easily to him. He was no fool in the classroom but what singled him out from the rest of us was his iconoclastic attitude to life at Borden. There was a James Dean-type rebelliousness about him yet he became head boy because George Hardy wisely recognised his cult status. It was a job he did almost casually but all respected him. I think many of us were in awe of him. Continue reading ‘Bob Davis (1942-2008) - obituary’
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