Tag: Watford Grammar School
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Watford Boys’ Grammar School – the 1T register 1967/68
No hiding place. I know your grade in History, even if you don’t.
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A hoarder? Excuse me, I’m an archivist.
I have a schedule listing the A-level and S-Level results of my entire 6th-form cohort: that has enabled me to intimidate former schoolmates with my knowledge of their shortcomings for half a century.
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John Didcock: celebrating a Watford Grammar School legend at 90
It’s quite easy to teach a good pupil. But to connect, as he did, with the more difficult ones, is something special and rare.
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Broken toilets and the ton of pennies
Understandably Trog was furious. A school assembly was called in the middle of the day – possibly even replacing a lesson – and we assembled in an atmosphere of freaky holiday.
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Hawkwind: the drummer’s naked pedicure (illustrated)
“My brother helped organise a Hawkwind gig at Watford Grammar School (!) in the early 1970’s. After the gig he had to go and explain to the band that they didn’t have enough money to pay the full fee.”
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Cecil Parkinson, Ken Livingstone, music and me
I don’t think I was aware of these political heavyweights being on the same bill that term, and just as well: I was nervous enough already.
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Father to the man
No doubt I should have been learning more (or at least something) about the Phoenix Park murders, or rereading the turgid pages of Le Baiser au lépreux.
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My Short but Glorious Rugby Career
…had I stayed the course, Dad would have loved to give me that shirt.
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Silly Mid-Off
WBGS u12s fifth wicket down. Time to pad up. Sit down, standing up shows a lack of confidence in the boys at the crease. Waiting. McKenzie and Wright are doing OK. I bat at number eight and I don’t bowl, so I don’t know how I got in the team.…
