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A Police Odyssey – Part 4: 1970-1980

May 9, 2011 in 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/.

I returned from Anguilla in December 1970 and the ‘winter of discontent’  of the Heath government was in full swing. There were three day working weeks for some and we suffered numerous power cuts. Keeping warm was a problem and having spent three months in the balmy climate of the West Indies it took a while to get accustomed to the cold of the English winter.

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Borden Grammar School Centenary – revisited

November 17, 2010 in Down Memory Lane

In 1978, Borden Grammar School celebrated its centenary year.  In the 1970′s, publicity of the centenary and details of the celebratory events would have been very limited – probably restricted to the local East Kent Gazette or by mailings to existing OBA members.  We thought we would bring back memories of both the celebratory events themselves and some history of the first 100 years of the school in a short series of posts using 1978 editions of The Maroon, The Bordenian and other memorabilia from 1978.  This is the first of those posts.

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