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Back Row:
Mike Hapgood, Jason Braham, �Sid� Fox,
Tim Blagrove, John Mouland, Andrew Fall,
Richard Gallop, David Stook, Chris
Chambers, Simon Dalziel
Third Row:
Lewis, David Sims, Chris Chambers, Richard Dobson,
Braunton, Ian St.John White, Julian Oddey, Harry
Dike, Timothy Leach, John Sloper, Mike
Kann, Steel(?)
Second Row:
Bates, Keith Warnock, Steven Roberts,
Gillian Roberts, Jo Roberts, Gwen Roberts,
?David Sochon, Mrs Harris(?), Fred Stoneham, Keith
Dalziel
Front Row:
Richard Spry, Andrew Blagrove, Julian
Tudor-Griffith, Derek Gallop, Maclean, Loopy Laing, Frank Dike,
Kevin Chambers
The house photo is Heathcote in
the summer of 1963. The Molesworth
years are over and I have matured into a
respectable member of the house and
school. Some familiar faces have
disappeared, to become intellectual
giants, prominent officers in HM Forces or
detained at Her Majesty's Pleasure.
These were times of social unrest and
student revolt, and they didn't come much
more revolting than this lot. Who says
surly teenagers are a modern phenomenon?
The photo was taken on the front lawn of
the house with the famous "games
hut" in the background. This was
something of a misnomer, as no games
actually took place inside it, but it was
the venue for such varied activities as
home wine-making (fortunately detected by
Jo before we had the chance to go blind),
construction of radio-controlled model
aircraft (which never actually left the
ground under their own power) and the
nurturing place of a prominent guitar
virtuoso whom modesty, hem-hem, prevents
me from naming. The latter was a leading
member of a musical ensemble which
included Sid Fox, Andrew ("Tell Laura
I Love Her") Fall, Jason Braham and
others who murdered Chuck Berry and Buddy
Holly classics with scant regard for
musical structure, tonality, rhythm or the
neighbours. Plus ca change! I could (and
probably will) write "six sides"
(in-joke for old Heathcotians) on everyday
life at the house but will spare you that
for another time - it is amazing how these
old photos bring back memories. |
