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Memories of life at the school in the 1950s

Posted Wednesday January 14th 2009

The link to the Sittingbourne Heritage Museum on the right will take you to an excellent and comprehensive article by John Butler of life at the School in the 1950s.

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The old building and the move to Remembrance Avenue (4th and final chapter)

Posted Thursday January 1st 2009

This is the final part of the story of the move of the School to the current site in Remembrance Avenue.  The Bordenian of March 1929 has this offering.

“On entering the New School”

At last, after waiting for fifty long years,
A marvellous vision to us now appears;
A spacious new school, done in brick, red and white,
Our jubilant hearts give a leap at the sight.
The great day has come, like the sun through the clouds,
The school to a man in the Dining Hall crowds;
“Let’s feast to the Gov’nors, who’ve turned up some trumps,
And bring us to bliss from our present old dumps.
Come turn out your linings and purchase good wine,
Then solemnly join hands and sing ‘Auld Lang Syne’ “
So heedless of rain and with arms full of books,
Past wurtzel and bungalows, sling we our hooks;
All eyes fixed ahead on the splendid new place,
Sporting a silk flag, all bordered with lace.
“Some brand new idea,” we all nod to ourselves,
And forward we trip like a concourse of elves;
Softly we glide, whispering praise,
Submitting each room to our wondering gaze.

Yet, ‘mid all these splendours, who feels not regret,
For the Borden of memories, dear to us yet?            A.W.S.

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