Old Photos For No Reason Whatsoever

[corkysbeard]

If we're doing schools, here's mine. With sneaky shot of the infamous inflated sports hall, with double door airlock access. Great in principle, but it was always getting slashed.

Was that herries SEB? Had a few pals go there early 80s till mid 80s?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Was that herries SEB? Had a few pals go there early 80s till mid 80s?

No, wrong end of the city. Beansville

 

[Bartyblade]

My alma mater...

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"Tempus est ut concinamus, quicquid Edwardensium.........."
And still got no bloody idea what it means

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Those that know will know. Somebody will be along to name it.

Beaver Hill?

 

[Right Back]

My old SchoolView attachment 23192

Me too, late 80s-mid 90s ish. Herr Brunt was still there. Couldn't knock it down because of it's listed status, so along came the council arson department to make it 'unsafe' & ripe for demolition.

 

[Sean Thornton]

What school?

Ashleigh?

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

"Tempus est ut concinamus, quicquid Edwardensium.........."
And still got no bloody idea what it means

My School 'Anthem' went something like this:
Ludus est nobis
Bonus o sodales
Quem decet semper
Colere atque amare
Hunc labos noster
Studiumque nostrum
Semper honestent....

And I've still no idea what it means!!!

 

[Tynemouth Blade]

Me too, late 80s-mid 90s ish. Herr Brunt was still there. Couldn't knock it down because of it's listed status, so along came the council arson department to make it 'unsafe' & ripe for demolition.

Ahhh so that's what happened was it?

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Beaver Hill?

Aye, that's the esteemed establishment. You all should be grateful to a school that produced Andy Barnsley

 

[georgebernardshaw]

My alma mater...

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..and that of my late brother, Brocco Banks of this parish.

 

[ghandi]

Stone Lane in Woodhouse, where I go for a bit of dogging whenever I'm in town.

Old pit lane to Birley East Colliery.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

Old pit lane to Birley East Colliery.

My Grandad worked at Birley East and then Brookhouse.

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[grafikhaus]

Linda from the hairdressers on Guildford ,the memories she packed me in because I went to Donny away on a Sunday afternoon instead of ........

Was that the cup game when Bert and the rest of the Unitedites were all penned up in that cage behind the goal?

That's the one - Sunday 11th December 1988, FA Cup Round 2. We won 3-1. A few weeks later (Feb. 18, 1989) we lost 2-3 in the 5th Round at Norwich - one of the all-time great United cup displays.

 

[gazza]

"Tempus est ut concinamus, quicquid Edwardensium.........."
And still got no bloody idea what it means

Tempus est ut concinamus, quicquid Edwardensium,
nunc adestis: hoc sit omnis thema nostri carminis:
qualis est qui cuique nostrum semper aemulandus est?

ille verus Edwardensis, quisquis humani nihil
a sese alienum putabit, usque consors ceteris
sive gaudebunt secundis seu laborabunt malis.

strenuus labore mentis, corporis non neglegens,
omnium sententiarum perspicax inquisitor:
semper artium bonarum pervicax videbitur.

Which roughly translated means:
'It is time to sing together: all Edwardians that are now present, let this be the theme of our song: what kind of man is he whom we should all imitate?
It is that true Edwardian who considers that nothing human is alien to him, ever associating with others, whether they rejoice in prosperity or toil under troubles.
Energetic in mental effort, he does not neglect his body; a penetrating investigator of all opinions, he will always appear steadfast in honest dealing.'

(with thanks to Old Edwardians)!

 

[Kendal]

Spent many lunchtimes playing football & tennis just here. They obviously poshed it up with palm trees when Norton College took it on.

 

[Kendal]

Who remembers Home Ec on the top floor kitchen? My 2nd year form room was the top floor nearest corner.

 

[Bert]

That's the one - Sunday 11th December 1988, FA Cup Round 2. We won 3-1. A few weeks later (Feb. 18, 1989) we lost 2-3 in the 5th Round at Norwich - one of the all-time great United cup displays.

Away at Norwich, crammed on the terrace in the corner, Thompson own goal. Was it Dale Gordon for them playing well?
As defeats go, second only to Hull at Wembley.

 

[I should coco]

Away at Norwich, crammed on the terrace in the corner, Thompson own goal. Was it Dale Gordon for them playing well?
As defeats go, second only to Hull at Wembley.

I think that was the first time I saw Basset's short corner routine.

We out drank them, out sang them and had a great day swimming in piss in their 'gentlemen's cloakroom'.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

You can almost see my old gaff, just behind Baileys house on right hand side , jesus i had some great times there , you could hear the roar from the lane when united scored .

 

[Kendal]

And one of the front of the upper school. Labelled as the Bannerdale Centre, which is just WRONG. To be honest, I'm surprised it was still standing for as long as it was, as they'd stopped maintaining it whilst I was there in the late 80s. I helped a bit with the demolition by 'accidentally' pulling pretty much a whole wall of tiles down outside a maths room one break. Must've been a damp wall.

 

[dublin 10 blade]

With the tower blocks in Leeds giving big problems with the wind what was it like around the tower blocks in Sheffield?

The gap between those two blocks really caught the breeze , if memory serves me right it blow over a car into Guildford block one year it was so strong .

 

[Lane Ender]

I went to Bluestones Juniors school , did you play in the Tudor cup ? ,before going to Norfolk left late 70's , some good blokes on here who I went to school with have been in touch .

We moved on to the Norfolk Park 1967 (we had to move into a flat my dad had a bad accident at work he needed to be on one level as it left him in a wheelchair) left in 1970 we got a nice council bungalow on the Painted Fabrics estate at Meadowhead.
When i was on the Norfolk Park I played for a junior side and we won a five a side competition and the final was at the Lane (we played across the pitch) the trophy was the John Harris Trophy presented by the great man himself.

 

[bornablade]

Who remembers Home Ec on the top floor kitchen? My 2nd year form room was the top floor nearest corner.

Staff room is the ground floor bay windowed room. This is where the real school smokers were. Above staff room was Biology labs, then Physics labs and top floor Chemistry labs.

1966-1973 best days of my life.

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

One for vorpal blade, I think he'll appreciate this from an architectural point of view. Parkhouse school 1966

 

[SouthEssexBlade]

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[HarryHaslam]

 

[HarryHaslam]