by Dave Palmer
October 16, 2010 in Guest Posts
Continuing our series of “the collected observations” on life in rural France, written by Edwin Westacott, Old Bordenian 1940-1945. These have been extracted from emails sent by Edwin over the past couple of years to Graham Barnes, who thinks they deserve a wider audience.
by Dave Palmer
September 18, 2010 in Borden Grammar News, Guest Posts
Harold Vafeas, Headmaster, has provided his speech from the recent Prize evening at the school, which gives a good summary of the school’s achievements over the past 12 months. This is reproduced below.
by Dave Palmer
September 9, 2010 in Down Memory Lane, Guest Posts
Free Beer.
Did you join the school as a first year in 1968, the year that it became necessary to have three classes for the new intake because we were, collectively, brighter than all those who had joined the school before?
by Dave Palmer
September 2, 2010 in Down Memory Lane, Guest Posts
This continues Barry Gilbert’s story of life in the Police Force. For the first part, see http://www.oldbordenians.co.uk/down-memory-lane/a-police-odyssey-january-1957-august-1992/.
My next period of service began with a move in April 1965 to the newly formed Traffic Division Garage in Bow Road in the East End of London, within the sound of Bow Bells.
The area has a very colourful history and a drive along Bow Road and Mile End Road through Stepney and Whitechapel towards the City of London was a history lesson in itself.
by Dave Palmer
August 26, 2010 in Guest Posts
After a career in teaching and a long flirtation with the French way of life through a house in the Perigord, Edwin Westacott (Borden 1940-45), together with his wife, Jan, went to live permanently in 2004 in a small village named Pointis-Inard, deep in the South of France not far from the Spanish border. Readers of The Maroon will be familiar with a number of articles which he contributed over the years, and which were memorable not only for their content but for their style. They were full of self-deprecating humour and keen observation.
Over the past two years or so, he and Graham Barnes have exchanged sporadic emails – usually commenting on all the trivial things which now fill their lives. Graham thinks that Edwin’s stories and anecdotes deserve a much wider audience and has persuaded Edwin, very reluctantly, to agree to the publication on the Website of a few of the choicest examples. They are not only very funny but detail experiences with which many of us can identify, despite not living in France.
by Dave Palmer
August 14, 2010 in Guest Posts
Here is the second of the reminiscences of our peripatetic Old Bordenian, Philip Spencer Drury, who has spent most of his teaching career in improbable places! This story relates to an incident in Vietnam where he now lives.
by Dave Palmer
July 13, 2010 in Borden Grammar News, Guest Posts
Being a Borden Grammar School Governor – the inside story by Alan Snelling
When I was at School in the 1960′s it seemed that you had to be over 60 and have grey hair to be a Governor – well it seems I now qualify on both counts. I have been a Governor for BGS for 10 years now, 3 of them as the Old Bordenian Association Governor. It started because my son was at the School and I applied to become a Parent Governor. There were several others also applying and the process had to go to a vote among Parents and each applicant had to product a paragraph or so about themselves. I noticed from the other parents that I was the only one from the Isle of Sheppey so I prominently mentioned this in my statement and I think I got most of the votes from the Island which catapulted me to stardom as a Governor – a sort of ‘Sheppey’s got talent’?
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