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OBA Committee Minutes 12 September 2008

1:02 am in The Boring Bits by Dave Palmer

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THE CONSTITUTION of the OLD BORDENIAN ASSOCIATION

12:40 am in The Boring Bits by Dave Palmer

THE CONSTITUTION of the OLD BORDENIAN ASSOCIATION

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The old building and the move to Remembrance Avenue (Pt 3)

11:01 pm in Down Memory Lane, Pictures, School Memorabilia by Dave Palmer

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! BGS 1914

 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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