Old Boys Dinner 2010 – Photos
May 24, 2010 in Events, School Photos
Below are photos taken by Alan Snelling at the Dinner held on 15 May 2010. Please share your photos of the evening by sending to Webmaster@Oldbordenians.Co.Uk. I have now added names where available.
Mick Pack, John Miles, Dave Carey, Peter Taylor…..Barry Roberts, Steve Goodhew, Peter Lusted
Nick Verrall, Alan Snelling, Barry Roberts……Mick Pack, John Miles, Martyn Calder, Dave Carey, Peter Taylor, Phil Bromwich
Barry Gilbert, John Faulkner …………..Ian Hazell
Clive Eglinton, Rick Harris, …….., Ken West
(if you can fill in the gaps, please email the Webmaster)
Not easy to identify from the small picture – click to expand! I’ll attempt to describe who is where! From the back of the picture, underneath the left hand honours board, scratching his head – Andy Bushell; to the left of the right hand honours board, back to the camera, is Bob Field, with Nigel Dickson just under the bottom left corner of the Board; Cliff Cork is facing the camera, adjusting his tie. On the next table nearer the camera (and facing the camera) from right to left is Bryan Short, Marc Stewart, Ken Sears and Stanley Evans. In the foreground on the far right is Graham Barnes; seated at the table nearest the camera on the right is Greg Pope; standing on the far left, back to the camera, hands clasped behind his back is the Headmaster, Harold Vafeas. All others either unclear or unknown. Happy to add names if anyone can fill the gaps!
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mcatchlove said on May 25, 2010
Would be great if someone could allocate some names!!
Dave Palmer said on May 26, 2010
Names now added, where known.
mcatchlove said on May 26, 2010
Thanks!
Philip Drury said on May 28, 2010
I am very happy to glean from this report that the grand old master Mr Nicholls(hope that is the way he spells his name) is alive and hopefully kicking.
He taught English and whilst, as most of us who remember him in the twilight of his career, he was a little faded and jaded I personaly am extremely grateful to him for a number of reasons.
Philip Drury said on May 28, 2010
Continuing the above,
Firsly,as a footnote to the under 14 hockey saga it was Mr Nicholls who refereed(or do they have umpires in hockey?) the ignominous 12-0 defeat in 1969 or was it 68?.Naturally he had a few comments to make about the one sided nature of the affair
Secondly he was responsible as my teacher from forn 1 to form 5 for bringing my writen English up to standard. so much so that forty years on I found it was good enough to enable me to supplement a teacher ‘s salary through contributing to magazines.When I can find a scanner machine I would like submit one of them entitled ‘ Pickwickian” to the webmaster and maybe Mr Nicholls could mark it out of 20 and give his usual perspicacious comments.
Thirdly Mr Nicholls devoted a lot of his time directing the school play for my final year 1973.I greatly enjoyed acting in it.I played the part of cockney speaking Bamforth in Willis Hall’s war comedy”The Long and the Short and the Tall”
Lastly,Mr Nicholls filled in a gap in the Borden curriculum.A certain Mr Hitler and his band of gloomy men ,one may recall, had tarnished the reputation of the German speaking peoples.Mr Nichols redressed this by telling us anecdotes of his experiences in Germany and Austria and intoducing us to Schubert’s lieder.He also made us laugh with tales of tthe havoc cognate vocab can play.For example the German language assistant who came out with “and in zee middle zer is a bloomomg tree,” and the German in the restaurant who lamenting the slow service says” I av been waiting a whole hour when do I become a sausage!(Bekommen in German meaning get or receive).
I have one of these to add myself.Once in a Maputo restaurant circa 1988 I struck up a conversation with a German who informed me” You know zis beer it is 60% mice.!In war stricken Mocambique of the time that might well have been the case but he meaned to say “maize’ not “mice”.
One of these years I hope to make to a dinner but living in far away Saigon nmakes it diifficult,Perhaps we(my wife and I) could raises attendace by laying on a few Vietnameses dishes.
Warm greetings to all from this corner of a foreign city, that might not be forever Borden.
Philip Drury
Philip Drury said on May 28, 2010
Correction.Sorry now I think about it it was Browning( think the first name might have been Martin?) who played the cockney Bamforth although I had originally also auditioned for that part.
As some may remember I had a bit of a reputation for mimicry and accents so Mr.Nichols had me play Lance Corporal Mac Cleish which required a glaswegian accent It would be interesting to hear from others who remember this play. Sorry also for one or two uncorrected spellings in the above.
Philip Drury
Geoff Rousell said on June 1, 2010
Philip,
I certainly went to this play as a 2nd former, I recall it being a great introduction to what was possible with school drama. I think we read it in English – though not with Mr Nichols, we only experienced his chalk throwing in year 1!
AS it happens I have the 1973 Bordenian open in front of me, with the cast:
Pvt. Bamforth – Jonathan Brownridge
Sgt Mitcham – Martin Sharman
Cpl. Johnstone – Martin Kite
Pvt. Sammy Whitaker – Fred Hodges
LCpl. ‘Mac’ Macleish – Philip Drury
Pvt. ‘Smudger’ Smith – Stephen Palframan
Pvt. Evans – Darryl James
Tojo – David Bowra
I’ll be scanning it the whole magazine in shortly, hopefully for inclusion on the site.
Geoff Rousell (1971-78)
dammersr said on June 3, 2010
Pip, Geoff,
Thanks for the reminders. I was sat with a tape recorder in the wings doing special effects through that production, a pleasure which I was recounting at this years’ OBA dinner. I loved the first occasion we tested the maroons used for providing the sound of shooting Tojo – there was a wonderful report, and then 10 seconds or so later, a tremendous clatter as the dustbin we had used to contain the explosion returned to earth.
Good, good times.
Robert Dammers
BTW, I’m doubly lucky since, as a result of the speech, John Faulkner who recalled Frank got back in contact with him, which got me another ‘phone call inviting my wife and I (and I’m pretty sure I’m optional!) for tea again.
Philip Drury said on June 9, 2010
Hi Robert
Thank you for rekindling the memory,
The amazing thing about this incident was how long the dustbin lid took to obey the law of gravity.It must have got caught up in the rafters somehow.
The perpetrator of this “folie”,I believe, was a young chemistry teacher by the name of Robert Ladds.This great pyrotechnician went on to persue a more peaceful path ending up as Suffagan Bishop of Whitby.Quite what a former mad scientist was doing up there in the heart of Dracula country I have my suspicions!
Philip Drury