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Forty years since leaving Borden!

Posted Saturday February 21st 2009

Peter Lusted and Mick Pack, both OBA committee members, are contacting as many of their peers as they can to celebrate (?) the fact that 40 years has passed since they left the school in 1969 and to encourage attendance at this year’s dinner for a grand reunion.  Below is an email to Peter Lusted from Rod Ballard in response. Rod was at BGS from 1962. 

“Thanks very much for the mail and for getting in contact – however, I would probably have preferred NOT to know how many years have passed!

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Tom Baldock (6 Sep 1927 – 14 Apr 2008) – Obituary

Posted Saturday February 21st 2009

It is with great regret that we record the death of Tom Baldock on 14th April last year at the age of 80.  Born in Sittingbourne on 6th September 1927, he attended Ufton Lane Primary School before coming to Borden as a ’scholarship boy’ in 1938.  On leaving School, he trained as a Pharmacist and worked for many years at Drabbles in Sittingbourne, after which he joined Heaths Chemist at Upminster when he moved there with his wife in 1971.

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Guest post – Phil Goldacre

Posted Sunday February 1st 2009

Phil Goldacre was at Borden from 1965 to 1970. Below are stories from the acting world, provided by him following pressure from one of his peers!  Do we have any other Old Boy actors?

Phil begins: Just a couple of stories that I thought you might like. I can talk some more about actual performances if you like [Ed's note - leave a comment at the end of the story if you'd like to hear more from Phil] but I think people might be more interested in the “off stage” bits.

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