I’ve set up this website so that if anyone else is interested, there’s a forum for like-minded Hydneye House Old Boys who can read any notes which appear and comment if they like.
HHS OBs - and others of course, can always email me on 2ndmktx@gmail.com, and send notes, pictures etc. in any form. I'll put them up in the posts, and attribute them as well!
This is really our own place!
All the magazines are here now. To see any of them, just click the arrows on the Blog Archive list!
Thursday, 11 January 2018
'That' poem...
Stephen Fry mentioned a delightful poem in the last post!
Tim Masterman has a copy and scanned it for me so here it is!
Rolip Braychley was another name for two chaps, Roger Bray and Philip Blatchley!
I attempted to post a comment 2 or 3 days ago, but have a feeling it may not have processed - I'm not sure if it has to be approved first.
At the risk of repeating myself, I have been going through some old boxes and came across some copies of The Hydneye Magazine, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968, as well as a school tie!
Have these editions (or the tie) been scanned/photographed and uploaded to here? I could not find them, but may well have missed the posts.
Sorry about this - I checked, but there's nothing there from a few days ago! But never fear, your post is now here for all to see!
But, by huge coincidence, only last week, I got together all the mags from 1958 to 1969 (I haven't got the first ever one from 1957), and was bracing myself to scan them...
I believe Edwin Morton has some of them as well, but may be wrong! We all pored over them in a bar some years ago!
Can you leave it to me to get them on view please? Now you've asked, I really must do something about it all!
I think I didn't complete the process with my original post, it is so long since I have used Blogger.
I am more than happy to leave the scanning to you, it will take some time, quite understand how you haven't got around to it yet, but at least 1 edition to be uploaded by Monday, or it is detention I'm afraid :-)
It is the same tie, my memory is not as good as yours, so I didn't realise it was the OB one . . . but it is all coming back now. I don't have a cap, not that it would fit so well now!
I will have to check precise dates, but I would have been there around 1962-5, so I presume the magazines were received as an OB.
Somewhere I have some photographs, I was given a Box-Brownie as a birthday present and I recall taking a photograph of Mr. Rushworth standing near the sloping driveway with the school in the background.
Dear Mike, I have just come to this for the first time. I would love to chat to you, but cannot find an email contact point or telephone number for you. My mail address is rdmd@btopenworld.com and tel: 07905 721305. Please contact me.
I was at HHS between 1959 and 1964 when I went to Clifton College. I was called Davies 2 and feature in some of the comments around the cricket.
I lived in London and played cricket in the 60s and 70s for Esher. Two team mates were Tim and Simon Battersby. I then lost touch. But a month ago I got back in touch with Simon when I saw his name as an editor on the BBC programme on the Army.
Last weekend I went to see an old Cliftonian friend in Manchester. He invited to supper two other couples. None of us knew each other. By chance I mentioned Brodribb. One of the guests interjected that he had been at HHS. It was Mark Patrick. Is this the same Patrick as above?
Dear Mike, I have just come to this for the first time. I would love to chat to you, but cannot find an email contact point or telephone number for you. My mail address is rdmd@btopenworld.com and tel: 07905 721305. Please contact me.
I was at HHS between 1959 and 1964 when I went to Clifton College. I was called Davies 2 and feature in some of the comments around the cricket.
I lived in London and played cricket in the 60s and 70s for Esher. Two team mates were Tim and Simon Battersby. I then lost touch. But a month ago I got back in touch with Simon when I saw his name as an editor on the BBC programme on the Army.
Last weekend I went to see an old Cliftonian friend in Manchester. He invited to supper two other couples. None of us knew each other. By chance I mentioned Brodribb. One of the guests interjected that he had been at HHS. It was Mark Patrick. Is this the same Patrick as above?
I recall the name Simon Battersby, he may well have been in my year, but cannot recall your name, which is quite possibly due to the little grey cells needing some refreshing!
Life is full of coincidences, as we like to call them.
Patrick
(I deleted previous post, as I could not see an edit option.)
I was there between 1952 and 1958. Stephen Fry - is that the Fry of Bucklers Hard News? Bletchley became a picture framer and lived in Chowns Hill until he moved to France a few years ago.
Hi. Peter Trainin. b. 1945. 1954 to 1959. Happy and healthy. Spent 90% of life without a penny on my body. Being raised inside the establishment masonic elite I was vaccinated early. Very fortunate. Loved playing football in the yard with a tennis ball. Saw Maltby retire and got Brodribb. Never made into a prefect not surprisingly. Fathers Day, Crooks father would nor stop hitting sixes, and strawberries and cream under the cedars. The pond frozen in winter. Mr Winter, the chessplaying maintenance man. The star Thai cricketer and artist, the Badenochs and Langleys. The school train, the shooting range. The cheers when an unpleasant teacher's retirement was announced, ( kids can be cruel), Mrs Maltby's reading in the drawing room before it was converted to a classroom. Jeremy Barnes, Stephen Fry from the Hard, Christopher Crook, Timpson, Satchel, Eric Koops, Hamilton, Slade, Simon Young. Mr Tanner, maths teacher, proud of new sunbeam talbot car, famous for dew drop. The WW I veteran in the carpentry shop.
Went to Stowe, Chandos. Split England, 1963, and never went back. Food, climate, dress, attitude. Did not float my boat. Lucky I was to deal with this so early. Latin grammar and vocabulary was my life saver. Geography and History served me very well. 5 times around the world on schooners and star honeymoon with Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot, 1966. Rio 5 years, und so veiter... Never returned to UK. Best to you all. Peter Trainin. (John Trainin, b 1948, Christchurch, Oxford, died last year.)
I've been mucking about with the blog server, and lost contact details for a while!
Peter, I well remember you, and your - and John's toothbrushes from your dad's dentistry! I'm sorry to hear that John (wow, what initials - J.E.T.) popped off, he had a wonderful voice, and even just last week, I was thinking about him singing 'Tit Willow' on the Greek theatre GB built! We were quite good chums, and he was a very likeable chap!
You're a bit older than me, but I still have records of your Stowe success from HHS!
Am getting more and more appreciative of Mike Armitage's page. Thanks very much indeed!! Anyone coming this way, Nerja, east of Malaga, give me a heads up. shinypeter3@gmail.com :)) specialized in crypto currencies.
It's a labour of love really, and only because I'm a 'nerd', who likes blogging, and what better place to meet old chums again, but over the net!
I don't do Twatter or Bookface, as I have the normal amount of discs in my spine (modern kids doing that need another one, to help them lean forward to read their mobiles), so it's either here or using Royal Mail!
I'm meeting Tim Masterman soon, for lunch. No doubt there will be some more banter afoot!
Bobbing around here trying to get attention from anyone. But ending up as a reply buried in here somewhere, it takes me time to locate my own comments. Not complaining. Just whistling in the dark. Maybe I should write at another spot to get feedback from the characters that are mentioned here. Best wishes to you all.
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I attempted to post a comment 2 or 3 days ago, but have a feeling it may not have processed - I'm not sure if it has to be approved first.
At the risk of repeating myself, I have been going through some old boxes and came across some copies of The Hydneye Magazine, 1965, 1966, 1967 and 1968, as well as a school tie!
Have these editions (or the tie) been scanned/photographed and uploaded to here? I could not find them, but may well have missed the posts.
Patrick
Hi Patrick,
Sorry about this - I checked, but there's nothing there from a few days ago! But never fear, your post is now here for all to see!
But, by huge coincidence, only last week, I got together all the mags from 1958 to 1969 (I haven't got the first ever one from 1957), and was bracing myself to scan them...
I believe Edwin Morton has some of them as well, but may be wrong! We all pored over them in a bar some years ago!
Can you leave it to me to get them on view please? Now you've asked, I really must do something about it all!
By the way, when were you at HHS?
As for the tie, I think I still have the OB tie with red 'HHS' on blue writing, is that the one you mean?
I've still got my red cap as well!
I think I didn't complete the process with my original post, it is so long since I have used Blogger.
I am more than happy to leave the scanning to you, it will take some time, quite understand how you haven't got around to it yet, but at least 1 edition to be uploaded by Monday, or it is detention I'm afraid :-)
It is the same tie, my memory is not as good as yours, so I didn't realise it was the OB one . . . but it is all coming back now. I don't have a cap, not that it would fit so well now!
I will have to check precise dates, but I would have been there around 1962-5, so I presume the magazines were received as an OB.
Somewhere I have some photographs, I was given a Box-Brownie as a birthday present and I recall taking a photograph of Mr. Rushworth standing near the sloping driveway with the school in the background.
Dear Mike,
I have just come to this for the first time. I would love to chat to you, but cannot find an email contact point or telephone number for you. My mail address is rdmd@btopenworld.com and tel: 07905 721305. Please contact me.
I was at HHS between 1959 and 1964 when I went to Clifton College. I was called Davies 2 and feature in some of the comments around the cricket.
I lived in London and played cricket in the 60s and 70s for Esher. Two team mates were Tim and Simon Battersby. I then lost touch. But a month ago I got back in touch with Simon when I saw his name as an editor on the BBC programme on the Army.
Last weekend I went to see an old Cliftonian friend in Manchester. He invited to supper two other couples. None of us knew each other. By chance I mentioned Brodribb. One of the guests interjected that he had been at HHS. It was Mark Patrick. Is this the same Patrick as above?
Give us a call. We shared so many recollections.
Robert
Dear Mike,
I have just come to this for the first time. I would love to chat to you, but cannot find an email contact point or telephone number for you. My mail address is rdmd@btopenworld.com and tel: 07905 721305. Please contact me.
I was at HHS between 1959 and 1964 when I went to Clifton College. I was called Davies 2 and feature in some of the comments around the cricket.
I lived in London and played cricket in the 60s and 70s for Esher. Two team mates were Tim and Simon Battersby. I then lost touch. But a month ago I got back in touch with Simon when I saw his name as an editor on the BBC programme on the Army.
Last weekend I went to see an old Cliftonian friend in Manchester. He invited to supper two other couples. None of us knew each other. By chance I mentioned Brodribb. One of the guests interjected that he had been at HHS. It was Mark Patrick. Is this the same Patrick as above?
Give us a call. We shared so many recollections.
Robert
Robert,
I am not Mark Patrick, I was Quigly 2.
I recall the name Simon Battersby, he may well have been in my year, but cannot recall your name, which is quite possibly due to the little grey cells needing some refreshing!
Life is full of coincidences, as we like to call them.
Patrick
(I deleted previous post, as I could not see an edit option.)
27 March 2018 at 20:31
I was there between 1952 and 1958. Stephen Fry - is that the Fry of Bucklers Hard News?
Bletchley became a picture framer and lived in Chowns Hill until he moved to France a few years ago.
Peyer Trainin here, 54-59.
Trying all day to post a text on your blog.
Brilliant page. Congrats! Peter.
Hi. Peter Trainin. b. 1945. 1954 to 1959.
Happy and healthy. Spent 90% of life without a penny on my body.
Being raised inside the establishment masonic elite I was vaccinated early. Very fortunate.
Loved playing football in the yard with a tennis ball. Saw Maltby retire and got Brodribb. Never made into a prefect not surprisingly.
Fathers Day, Crooks father would nor stop hitting sixes, and strawberries and cream under the cedars.
The pond frozen in winter. Mr Winter, the chessplaying maintenance man.
The star Thai cricketer and artist, the Badenochs and Langleys.
The school train, the shooting range. The cheers when an unpleasant teacher's retirement was announced, ( kids can be cruel), Mrs Maltby's reading in the drawing room before it was converted to a classroom. Jeremy Barnes, Stephen Fry from the Hard, Christopher Crook, Timpson, Satchel, Eric Koops, Hamilton, Slade, Simon Young.
Mr Tanner, maths teacher, proud of new sunbeam talbot car, famous for dew drop.
The WW I veteran in the carpentry shop.
Went to Stowe, Chandos. Split England, 1963, and never went back. Food, climate, dress, attitude. Did not float my boat. Lucky I was to deal with this so early. Latin grammar and vocabulary was my life saver. Geography and History served me very well. 5 times around the world on schooners and star honeymoon with Gunter Sachs and Brigitte Bardot, 1966. Rio 5 years, und so veiter...
Never returned to UK.
Best to you all. Peter Trainin.
(John Trainin, b 1948, Christchurch, Oxford, died last year.)
Trying to connect as well. Great page for us lot!
Peter Trainin.
Blimey!
I've been mucking about with the blog server, and lost contact details for a while!
Peter, I well remember you, and your - and John's toothbrushes from your dad's dentistry! I'm sorry to hear that John (wow, what initials - J.E.T.) popped off, he had a wonderful voice, and even just last week, I was thinking about him singing 'Tit Willow' on the Greek theatre GB built! We were quite good chums, and he was a very likeable chap!
You're a bit older than me, but I still have records of your Stowe success from HHS!
Hi Robert!
We must have been contemporaries!
I'll email you, and many thanks for getting in touch!
Am getting more and more appreciative of Mike Armitage's page. Thanks very much indeed!!
Anyone coming this way, Nerja, east of Malaga, give me a heads up. shinypeter3@gmail.com :))
specialized in crypto currencies.
Thank you, Peter!
It's a labour of love really, and only because I'm a 'nerd', who likes blogging, and what better place to meet old chums again, but over the net!
I don't do Twatter or Bookface, as I have the normal amount of discs in my spine (modern kids doing that need another one, to help them lean forward to read their mobiles), so it's either here or using Royal Mail!
I'm meeting Tim Masterman soon, for lunch. No doubt there will be some more banter afoot!
Bobbing around here trying to get attention from anyone. But ending up as a reply buried in here somewhere, it takes me time to locate my own comments. Not complaining. Just whistling in the dark.
Maybe I should write at another spot to get feedback from the characters that are mentioned here. Best wishes to you all.
Hey
Live feedback. I love it. I too do not do twits and zuckbook. Best to ya! Peter.
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